Architecture of Rational Performance Tester
Figure 22-1 shows the relationship between Rational Performance Tester and the open source test solution driven by IBM and some other major sponsors.
Figure 22-1 Rational Performance Tester Architecture
Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools, and runtimes for building, deploying, and managing software across the life cycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.
TPTP is a project in the Eclipse community that provides powerful frameworks and services for an open platform upon which developers build unique test and performance tools-both open source and commercial-that easily integrate with Eclipse and other tools and address the entire test and performance life cycle, from developer testing through production monitoring.
The key points about the architecture of Rational Performance Tester are:
- Rational Performance Tester is built as a plug-in to the Rational Software Development Platform (Eclipse/workbench), which is hosted in the Eclipse shell.
- Rational Performance Tester uses Java-based tests and an execution engine.
- Rational Performance Tester uses many of the TPTP components, such as the HTTP proxy recorder, execution engine, IBM Rational Agent Controller, and so on.
- In RPT, some of the components from TPTP have been customized. Some components are hidden.
For more detailed information about Eclipse or TPTP, you can check out the official Web site for TPTP:
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