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 Today, a major portion of newly developed enterprise applications is based on Internet connectivity of a geographically distributed work force that all need on-line access to their respective information
systems. To prevent the performance-related issues in these newly developed web-based applications, development teams should have ability to validate the scalability and reliability of application before
deployment at production sites.

Main benefit of an effective performance testing tool is to ensure the availability, scalability, robustness, and responsiveness of an application with the end-users and client’s business perspective
IBM Rational Performance Tester offers a very simple-to-use test recorder, automated data manipulation, advanced and flexible workload scheduling, real-time reporting and a highly scalable execution
engine to help ensure that applications are prepared to handle large user loads without compromising on the overall performance of the system, even with limited memory and processing resources

Rational Performance tester supports:

    * Multi-user performance testing to validate web application scalability before deployment, with both a Windows and a Linux-based user interface
    * GUI-based test creation
    * flexible test customisation with Java code
    * load and performance testing of applications including web, Siebel 7.7 and SAP

Join us for a quick tour, demo on Rational Performance Tester at the Innovate 2011!

How effective would it be if we let our customers tell us the features they want in a product we are planning to build, and let them prioritize these features and then we prioritize them against criteria that maximizes customer value and minimizes cost, build those features and make the product available to the market – resulting in maximum return on investment with a product our customers love!


Well, If the above appeals to you Rational Focal Point is your answer. From my experience with Focal Point over the last few years I have realised that this is one scenario which would be an eye catcher for many of us in this industry. I would definitely want to get you to know more about this tool. Let me introduce Focal Point to you more formally - its a unique management tool which automates, improves and supports product management and portfolio management. Be it something relatively simple as to what features would go into the product you build to making a more complex and important decision on which product to build, this tool come in very handy.

Making the right decision is always a challenge. We can make an adhoc and intuitive decision based on previous experiences or a more formal and a calculated one which is based on more critical business issues such as customer priority , market scenario etc.


Let me give you an example:

When we have two alternatives and one criteria, like which of the two between cars A and B is better in terms of mileage, its an easy comparison. But when we include more criteria to the list like which one has better mileage, comfort, speed, looks etc and then make a choice on the best alternative then it becomes a little complex. Imagine a situation where we need to choose between more alternatives (cars) C, D, E and F with increasing criteria set!
With Focal Point we solve this situation by doing a pair wise comparison. Compare two alternatives at a time according to one criterion. Then combine all of this and visualize your choices.
Sounds easy? You could also have multiple people making their choices based on their priorities and opinions and then get an overall visualization of them.


Now, a few features of Focal Point:

• Web Client - A browser is all the end user needs.
• Access control through views
• A multisite collaboration platform,
• Powerful filtering techniques
• Built in graphs to enhance visualization.
• Easy data transfer(import/export)
• Send email notifications on alert situations
• Powerful reporting

Take advantage of the Rational Innovate 2011 - Bangalore and Delhi when we showcase and talk about a number of such solutions. We have planned a number of tracks, Sessions and technical Workshops.

Read and Register at https://www-01.ibm.com/software/in/rational/innovate/register.html

IBM Rational® solutions for collaborative design management enable an organization to bring together a broad set of stakeholders—customers, line-of-business managers, operations, development teams, and others—to contribute to and influence the design of products, software and systems. This new level of collaboration can help to drive improved quality and achieve successful business outcomes. IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Design Manager and IBM Rational Software Architect Design Manager provide an intuitive, web-based and IBM Rational Jazz-enabled user experience to: Engage all stakeholders in the design process with self-serve web-based access to designs from anywhere—speeding decision-making with automated design reviews. Unify designs across the lifecycle and teams enabling multi-design search for review, analysis and reuse. Accelerate project delivery with automated reporting for audits and compliance, and rapid adoption to improve overall team effectiveness.   Few links for reference :    https://jazz.net/projects/design-management/    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reKelRG6dJw

 

Innovate 2011 - Curtain Raiser by Ms. Bhawana V Gupta, IBM India, Technical Sales-Rational

IBM Rational Quality Manager is collaborative, Web-based, quality management software for comprehensive test planning and test asset management throughout the software life cycle.

Built on the Jazz™ platform, it is for test teams of all sizes and supports a variety of user roles, such as test manager, test architect, test lead, tester, and lab manager, as well as roles outside of the test organization.

IBM Rational Quality Manager enables you to manage and run automated test scripts created with other test tools.

The test scripts that you create are references to the actual tests created in the other testing tools.

This blog covers Worksoft Certify as an example. You will see how to get the tools integrated and how they work with Rational Quality Manager to help you better manage and understand the status of your project.

Worksoft Certify is an automated functional testing solution for SAP lifecycle management and cross-platform business process validation.

Worksoft Certify eliminates custom coding and programming, a requirement of most legacy test automation products, making it fast and easy to implement and maintain. Using an object-driven approach rather than generating scripts or code, Worksoft Certify validates business process workflows using a data model of fields, screens, and transactions making it easy to keep pace with dynamic changes.

 

Steps to change the polling interval

 

These are the files that are included in our Worksoft Adapter:

There are two options to change the polling interval:

·         Option 1 – while the adapter IS NOT RUNNING, change the config.ini “sleepTime” config value.  This is configuration for the polling interval.   Then run the adapter using “Start.cmd”

rqm.sleepTime=5

·         Option 2 -   change the polling interval in the UI.   Here are the steps

o       Run “Start.cmd”

o       Click on the “tab” circled in red below

 

 

 

 

 

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Change the Sleep Time (circled in red below):

 

 

 

 

o       Click “Save”

o       Restart the adapter and the RQM server

 

References:

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