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Create modular performance tests to save time and increase reuse: Part 2. Tutorial

A real-world example of using Rational Performance Tester test variables

Karline Vilme (kvilme@us.ibm.com), Software Quality Engineer, IBM
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Karline is a staff software quality engineer with the IBM Software Group. She focuses primarily on system verification, integration, and performance testing for the Rational Performance Tester tool. She joined IBM in 2000 and has held several system administrator and senior customer support positions with the IBM Global Services group.

Summary:  This is Part 2 of a two-part series on creating modular performance tests by using the IBM® Rational® Performance Tester split test functionality and then dynamically exchanging data between tests by using the test variable functionality. This part is a step-by-step tutorial for how to use the functionality to exchange data between tests at run time, without using a user-generated data pool.

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Date:  05 Oct 2010
Level:  Introductory

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Introduction

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for how to use the Rational Performance Tester test variable functionality to exchange data between tests at run time without using a user-generated data pool.

Before you start

Be sure to read Part 1 of this two-part series first: "Use Rational Performance Tester split test and test variable functionality to exchange data between modular tests." See "View more content in this series," under the Summary, for a link to that article.

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