Appendix B: Using Rational Robot in the Tivoli Management Agent Environment

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This appendix describes how to use Rational's Robot with a component of Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance (TMTP), in order to measure typical end-user response times.

Rational Robot

Rational Robot is a functional testing tool that can capture and replay user interactions with the Windows GUI. In this respect, it is equivalent to Mercury's WinRunner, and we are using it to replace the function that was lost when we were forced to remove WinRunner from TAPM.

Robot can also be used to record and play back user interaction with a Java application, and with a Java applet that runs in a Web browser.

Documentation is included as PDF files in the note that accompanies this package.

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