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Technical details

TAPE is a web application and consists of a cross-project component for the creation and administration of projects and testers (Tape Admin) and a project-specific component for the design, execution and analysis of project-related performance tests (TAPE Project).

TAPE uses the open source tool STAF from IBM for remote distributed tool management.

Complex performance tests using TAPE

The performance tester defines the SUT (System under Test), the operations required, and the sequencing of operations in the performance tests.
TAPE then executes the operations on the corresponding test components step-by-step through an interface to STAF. Files are copied to test machines, the test environment is initialized, resource monitors and load generators started, and test results centrally saved after the test run.

Plug-in design

A plug-in design allows a variety of performance tools of choice such as monitors, load generators and proprietary scripts to be integrated into TAPE. Well-known performance tools such as HP Mercury LoadRunner, or Borland Silkperformer, as also Open Source tools such as The Grinder, JMeter, can be used with TAPE.

Cross-project scheduler

A cross-project scheduler detects scheduling conflicts and potential test resource conflicts. This allows for a more secure and effective use of the environment.

Platforms supported

Tomcat 6 with Oracle or DB2 on Windows and/or Linux are supported for both TAPE Admin and Tape Project.

Supported architectures and platforms for test environments

  • Windows 95
  • Windows 98 (and 98 SE)
  • Windows Millenium Edition
  • Windows NT Version 4.0
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
  • Windows SRV 2003 (IA32, IA64, AMD64)
  • Windows Vista (IA32, AMD64)
  • Windows Server 2008 (IA32, IA64, AMD64)
  • Linux (Intel32/64, AMD64, PPC32/64)
  • Linux on zSeries (31-bit, 64-bit)
  • AIX Version _ 4.3.3.0 (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • Solaris (Sparc) _ j2.6
  • Solaris AMD Opteron 64-bit
  • Solaris (x86) _ v10
  • HP-UX _ 11.00 (PA-RISC, IA64 32-bit 64-bit)
  • OS/400 _ V5R2
  • z/OS UNIX _ V1.4 (32-bit, 64-bit)
  • FreeBSD 4.10, _ 6.1 (i386)