Correlation of cookies is not mandatory in RPT. During playback some values which are recorded during scripting are sent to the server to be processed, but these values most of the time are dynamic in nature, and they do not form the page content during response from the server. Cookies are usually cached to be reused by the page, but these do not give the correct response time for the page content. Hence, some times the test is run by disabling the cache. To summarize, no it is not necessary to correlate cookie in RPT, as they do not... [More]

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It is somewhat of a bitter-sweet day for me as I hand off ownership of this blog to a new team of colleagues to take this space and bring it to even higher levels of value. I'm letting go of this blog as part of my transition in to the IBM IoT support organization where I am working on social business strategy and logistics like I did for Rational Support all these years. As you may have already noted from the about section to the right side here, I am leaving this blog in the very capable hands of Denise McKinnon and Naomi Guerrero. I... [More]

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Is your mobile app slow? A resource hog? In this article Shanker Prasad Perumal and Syed Attaullah demonstrate how to use the new features in IBM Rational Test Workbench to perform two important aspects of performance testing on mobile apps: Response time measurements and Resource monitoring. Given the explosive growth of mobile smartphone use and mobile application development, mobile test automation is a key requirement to enable successful and fast delivery of quality mobile applications. Automated functional testing of mobile applications... [More]

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LIVE TWEETING DURING THE WEBCAST! USE  #GRUCAgile  TO FOLLOW AND SUBMIT QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS TO OUR SPEAKER How Do Agile Teams Keep From "Waterfalling Backward?"  "Waterfalling backward" describes the situation where a team that has started down the Agile path reverts to waterfall ways of thinking when difficult situations arise.  Join Leslie Ekas and Scott Will, authors of the book “Being Agile” as they discuss their experiences in helping teams successfully adopt Agile, as well... [More]