Tool Mentor: Edit Tests with IBM Rational Performance Tester |
This tool mentor describes how to use IBM Rational Performance Tester to edit a performance test.
Tool: IBM Rational Performance Tester
Relationships
Related Elements | Design Performance Test Develop Test
Main Description
### Overview With the test editor, you can manually write a test for a Web application. But more typically, you use the editor to inspect or customize a test that was automatically generated from a recorded session with an application that you started from your browser. You can edit tests in a number of ways by, for example, providing tests with variable data, correlating response and request data in a test, adding verification points to a test, adding elements to a test, and extending tests with custom code. In this tool mentor, the focus will be on one fo the more frequently encountered types of editing, namely adding a verification point (VP) to a test. For more information on editing a test in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester, see the topic Editing Tests in the online Help. A verification point is used to determine whether or not expected behavior occurred. In cases where the expected behavior does not occur at a verification point, an error is reported. In Rational Performance Tester, three types of verification points are supported: Page Title VPs: reports an error if no page title, or a title different from what you expected, was returned Response Code VPs: reports an error if a response code different from what you expected was returned Response Size VPs: reports an error if the size of a response is different from what you expected ### Tool Steps To edit a test by adding a verification point, perform the following steps: Open the test. In the Test Editor, set the scope of the verification point by clicking either the test name, a test page, or a page request. Depending on which item you choose, the verification point you select is added to all test pages, to a particular page in the test, or to a particular request in a page. Right-click and select one of the following: Enable Page Title VPs Enable Response Code VPs Enable Response Size VPs For more information on verification points and editing performance tests in general, see the following topics in the Rational Performance Tester online Help: Specifying the Expected Content Specifying the Expected Page Title Specifying the Expected Response Code Specifying the Expected Response Size
© Copyright IBM Corp. 1987, 2009. All Rights Reserved.