You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational® Integration Tester.

You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for IBM® Rational® Integration Tester.

You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of Rational® Integration Tester.

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

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.

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.

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 Virtualization Server stubs designed in Rational Integration Tester are published to Rational Test Control Panel, which holds them in a repository.

Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use Rational® Integration Tester.

You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester from the IBM Rational Test Workbench or IBM Rational Integration Tester package.

You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or IBM Rational Performance Test Server package.

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

Rational® Integration Tester supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy.

This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.

Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.

This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.

You can use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to display the results of tests that you run in both Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Control Panel.

You can use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to display the usage statistics of virtual services across Rational Test Virtualization Server and IBM Rational Integration Tester.

You can troubleshoot some of the problems that you might encounter when you are installing, configuring, or running Rational® Integration Tester.

Problems can occur at a time when Rational® Integration Tester cannot display an error message. Instead, a warning icon is displayed. Double-clicking the icon reveals a list of errors.

To configure the Rational® Integration Tester logs, including those for the RunTest command when run from the command line, update the Rational Integration Tester logging properties file.

To configure the Rational® Integration Tester Agent logs, including those for the RunTests command when run from the command line, update the Rational Integration Tester Agent logging properties file.

To configure the RQMAgent logs, update the RQMAgent logging properties file.

When you install Rational® Integration Tester, Rational Integration Tester Agent, or Rational Test Control Panel including the HTTP/TCP proxy, several logging properties files are added to each installation's home directory.

You can use the following list of logging-related information to help you find information about the logs that are supported by Rational® Integration Tester. All of the programs use the Java logging framework. For details, see the Java logging framework documentation.

If one of the programs fails to start as a Windows™ service, it can be difficult to determine the cause. Typically the service fails to start but gives no indication of why. The Windows Event log has nothing useful and the process might not have created its log file.

You can troubleshoot some of the problems that you might encounter when you are installing, configuring, or running Rational® Integration Tester.

Workarounds and solutions for transport diagnostics, creating and running tests, and saving and renaming objects are contained in this topic.

You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you install and run the Rational® Integration Tester Agent.

You can use workarounds to troubleshoot common problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.

You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.

You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use the Software AG webMethods.

You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® WebSphere® MQ with Rational® Integration Tester.

You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® WebSphere® Application Server products with Rational® Integration Tester.

You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® WebSphere® Portal products with Rational® Integration Tester.

You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you are testing TIBCO products in Rational® Integration Tester.

You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use the Java™ method transport of Rational® Integration Tester.

You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use HTTP and Web Services.

You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use TCP and UDP transports.

You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® z/OS® with Rational® Integration Tester.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rational® Integration Tester is primarily GUI-based, but you can also run or view tests, suites, and stubs outside of the Rational Integration Tester.

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.

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, included with Rational® Integration Tester, provides a simple way to generate messages that you can observe with topology discovery or capture in Recording Studio.

Ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls. Also, know about any security limitations that you might encounter with this application.

You must ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls. Also, you must know about any security limitations that you might encounter with this server application.