Rational Performance Tester Starter Edition

Rational® Performance Tester Starter Edition is a no-charge offering for you to get started with creating and debugging tests for all the test extensions. There is no data or time limit to the starter edition. The starter edition contains a subset of the features available in the full edition of Rational Performance Tester.
The product bits for the Trial/Full licensed Edition or the Starter Edition is the same. At the time of the installation of the product, you can choose to install either of the edition.
Note: If you install the Full licensed edition and are unable to successfully checkout a license at product startup, the product, by default, will fall back to the starter edition upon user confirmation. A message confirming to start the product in the starter edition mode or apply license is displayed. If you are in the trial period of the product, the message to fall back to the starter edition will be displayed after the trial period expires. Click Cancel to not to fall back to the starter edition and view the error messages in the Error log view.

To check whether or not you are in the Starter Edition or Full licensed edition, see the name at the top banner of the product. A Starter Edition is named Rational Performance Tester – Starter Edition.

Load testing

With the starter edition, you can load test the application just as you would do with a Full licensed edition. See the table to view the number of users that can be run without any charge for the test extension on the starter edition.
Table 1. Default load test for each test extension
Test Extension Free users
HTTP 5
SAP 1
Citrix 1
Socket 5
TN3270 5
SOA 1
Once you get up and running with the starter edition, you can add additional load generating capability by using IBM Rational Performance Tester on Cloud or by purchasing Virtual Tester (VT) packs license. Download Rational Performance Tester Agent to use the VT packs. The Rational Performance Tester trial download site includes a copy of the Agent.
Note: Rational Performance Tester Starter Edition does not support running a load test on agents installed with Rational Performance Test Server or Rational Test Virtualization Server products, both of which use Processor Value Unit (PVU) or Simultaneous Session licensing instead of VT pack licenses.

Download

You can download the starter edition from developerWorks.

Upgrading to Full licensed edition

An enterprise looks to automate the execution of the test scripts thereby reducing the cost and effort required to maintain large number of tests. Upgrade to the full version of the product to consume the automation capabilities in test execution.

To upgrade to the Full licensed edition, first, you must purchase either Authorized User License from Passport Advantage or Floating License from IBM Rational Licensing and Download Center.
  1. Close Rational Performance Tester Starter Edition.
  2. Start IBM Installation Manager and click Modify.
  3. Follow the wizard by clicking Next till you reach the page to select features.
  4. Select the Trial/Full licensed edition check box, click Next, and click Modify.
Installation page

Support

Community support is available through dW Forum.


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