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This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
Rational® Integration Tester overview
You can use Rational® Integration Tester to create, modify, and run service tests, and performance tests.

Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
- Rational® Integration Tester overview
  You can use Rational® Integration Tester to create, modify, and run service tests, and performance tests.
  - Interactive Guides
    The home page contains several interactive guides that walks you, step by step, through some of the common tasks. The home page also contains links to some of the information resources that are available on the web.
  - Task flow: Basic test scenario
    A diagram is provided to show you a basic task flow that can help you get started with some of the features of the tool to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
  - Task flow: Advanced test data scenario
    A diagram is provided to show you an advanced task flow that can help you get started with resources, environments, schemas, and test suites to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
- Testing methodology
  By following four basic guidelines, you can incorporate Rational® Integration Tester into your testing methodology. These guidelines drive efficient and expedient integration testing, and they can be applied to your testing process and infrastructure requirements.
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing
  A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.
- Getting started with testing
  You can start using Rational® Integration Tester by completing the preliminary tasks such as creating and running a test, creating and running a stub, recording an HTTP proxy, and running a stub in a Docker container.
- Rational® Test Control Panel overview
  Rational® Test Virtualization Server stubs designed in Rational Integration Tester are published to Rational Test Control Panel, which holds them in a repository.
- Rational® Integration Tester accessibility features
  Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use Rational® Integration Tester.

Rational® Integration Tester overview

You can use Rational® Integration Tester to create, modify, and run service tests, and performance tests.

These are the components of Rational® Integration Tester and can be installed with the Rational® Test Workbench product:

Rational® Integration Tester
Rational® Test Control Panel

Note: From Test Workbench version 8.7 onwards, the Rational® Integration Tester Platform Pack component does not exist. All the technology-specific tool packages are now available with the Rational® Test Control Panel. For more information about the tool packages, see Rational® Integration Tester tool packages.

Rational® Integration Tester

With Rational® Integration Tester, you get a scripting-free environment for developing tests for SOA messaging and business process integration projects. You can build tests by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return. You can also create virtual services to remove test dependencies and enable earlier testing. Virtual services can be deployed by Service Virtualization to provide on-demand virtualized test environments that can support all phases of the test development lifecycle.

Rational® Test Control Panel

The Rational® Test Control Panel is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The server allows you to use virtual services published with Rational® Integration Tester to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in Rational® Test Virtualization Server.

It also contains technology-specific components used by Rational® Integration Tester for recording SOA message conversations, HTTP(S) and JDBC traffic, and for monitoring middleware systems under test with minimal reconfiguration of client applications