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Rational® Integration Tester reference
Rational® Integration Tester is a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. Tests can be built by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return.
Test actions
Actions are the building blocks of a test. A test consists of a series of steps and each step is an action. Actions can be defined for tests and stubs.
Performance actions
Performance related actions available for Rational® Integration Tester.

Rational® Integration Tester reference
Rational® Integration Tester is a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. Tests can be built by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return.
- Rational® Integration Tester overview
  This section provides an overview of Rational® Integration Tester, including information about projects and files, the Rational Integration Tester user interface, environments, and project settings and preferences.
- Architecture School
  Use the Architecture School perspective to build a system under test by using the logical, physical, and synchronization views. You can also use this perspective to manage the schemas available in your project.
- Recording Studio
  With Rational® Integration Tester, you can record events (messages or database interactions) sent to and from the system under test. Use Recording Studio to control what parts of the system should be recorded. These parts could be specific parts of the system infrastructure or specific services using that infrastructure. You can then use the recorded events as a source of tests and other interactions with the system. In Recording Studio, you can record the traffic over a number of different transports.
- Test Factory
  The Test Factory perspective is one of the main areas in Rational® Integration Tester. You can create all the tests and the required artifacts/data to support them.
- Test Lab
  You use the Test Lab to execute test assets, repair tests, and open test assets for editing directly from this perspective. You can execute all of the tests, test suites, and stubs that are created in Test Factory.
- Results Gallery
  You use the Results Gallery perspective to view an execution summary and detailed coverage, error, and performance reports for executed test suites and for test cases that were executed within a suite or as part of a test cycle.
- Messages
  Rational® Integration Tester can publish and subscribe to messages as part of a test. A message normally consists of two parts: a header and a body. The header usually adheres to a predefined logical construction, while the structure of the body can be more arbitrary.
- Schemas
  Rational® Integration Tester can handle many types of content. For the product to be able to interpret the variety of content types, it must associate a content format description, or schema with the content.
- Database resources, connections, and bindings
  Rational® Integration Tester can interact with any database that supports connectivity through the JDBC specification. These interactions can be used to extract or update data where necessary, and test data sets can be taken directly from database table content.
- Identity stores and SSL
  An identity store can group a collection of one or more certificates that can be used in IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to validate and authenticate connections that use SSL. After you create an identity store, you can use it to enable SSL communications in various messaging transports.
- Scripting within tests and stubs
  You can use scripts in Rational® Integration Tester that include the Rational Integration Tester legacy scripting language, ECMAScript (such as JavaScript™), or any third-party scripting language that you install.
- External tools
  Rational® Integration Tester is primarily GUI-based, but you can also run or view tests, suites, and stubs outside of the Rational Integration Tester.
- Test actions
  Actions are the building blocks of a test. A test consists of a series of steps and each step is an action. Actions can be defined for tests and stubs.
  - General actions
    A list of general actions available for Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Flow actions
    The flow-related actions that you can use are: action group, assert, decision, pass, fail, run test, sleep, fetch test data, lookup test data, iterate test data, iterate while, and iterate through multi-value tags.
  - Message actions
    A number of messaging-related actions are available for Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Database actions
    Working with messages is a large component of the tests that you create with Rational® Integration Tester. However, in most systems, you also interact with databases. For example, you might want to check that data was added or removed from a database correctly. Or, you might want to insert data, or run a stored procedure on a database as part of a larger test. If you have the appropriate JDBC drivers and can specify the locations of these drivers to the Library Manager, Rational Integration Tester can interact with any JDBC-compliant database. After the JDBC drivers are set up, you can create a database within the Architecture School perspective, just like you do for any other infrastructure component, and can work with the database by adding actions to your tests. You can use three database actions: the SQL Command action, the SQL Query action, and the Stored Procedure action.
  - Performance actions
    Performance related actions available for Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Stub actions
    Some actions in Rational® Integration Tester are available to message-based stubs only.
- Formatting and parsing date-time patterns
  For some fields in Rational® Integration Tester, you can define patterns for date-time formatting. Pattern letters are repeated, as their number determines the exact presentation of the date-time information that they represent.
- The Add Numbers service
  The Add Numbers service, included with Rational® Integration Tester, provides a simple way to generate messages that you can observe with topology discovery or capture in Recording Studio.

Performance actions

Performance related actions available for Rational® Integration Tester.

The following performance actions are used to provide additional timing information when an Rational® Integration Tester test is run:

Begin Timed Section
End Timed Section
Log Measurement

Begin Timed Section

For use in performance testing, the Begin Timed Section action is a marker that indicates the beginning of a section of test steps. This action is used with the End Timed Section step. For more information about timed sections, see Timed sections. For more information about this action, see Configuring begin timed section actions.

End Timed Section

For use in performance testing, the End Timed Section action is a marker that indicates the end of a section of test steps. This action is used with the Begin Timed Section step. For more information about timed sections, see Timed sections. For more information about this action, see End timed section actions.

Log Measurement

The Log Measurement action writes custom data to the results database during a performance test. For more information, see Log Measurement action (optional).