Runnig rational performance tester on a schedule

Question

Is is possible to run rational performance tester once every hour and generate a report which contains all response times for every hour for all pages? Like this hour 1: hello.html min avg max time hour 2: hello.html min avg max time hour 3: hello.html min avg max time

if you use a ordinary schedule and let it iterate once every hour all response times get lumped together in the report likes this:

hello.html min avg max count=24.

Would it be possible to start rpt from a script and run a specific project/schedule and then let cron run that script every hour?

Best Regards Anders Olme

Answer 1

Why would you want to do that? Sounds like you are looking for a method of monitoring a running website! If so then there are much simpler ways such as adding %D in apache logformat to write out the time taken to service the page and process your web logs every hour instead :-)

If you really want to do this then don't use RPT - use JMeter or something more commandliney, would be easy then. In fact if its just loading a page then Curl on a cron would do it.

Answer 2

Well it is not a single page it is a websphere portal running on an mainframe so it is not just to open up an apache config.

Haven't looked into JMeter but we have a couple of steps that must be done in the test ( log in make some stuff and logout) that we want to measure and we allready had a testflow in RPT that we use so it would be nice to reuse it even if it is not what rpt are ment for.

//Olme

Answer 3

For sure, you can schedule that task using Rational Quality Manager, the new IBM's Centralized QA Management Tool. However, in the same tool you can start your test plan with a Java code that allows you to manage that.

Hope this helps.

Juan Pablo Soto IBM Rational Consultant Veryweb Chile www.veryweb.cl