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Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
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.
Shortcuts for Rational® Integration Tester
You can use keyboard shortcuts and common actions to quickly navigate Rational® Integration Tester.

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.
- 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.
  - Shortcuts for Rational® Integration Tester
    You can use keyboard shortcuts and common actions to quickly navigate Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Additional shortcuts
    You can use more keyboard shortcuts to quickly navigate Rational® Integration Tester.

Shortcuts for Rational® Integration Tester

You can use keyboard shortcuts and common actions to quickly navigate Rational® Integration Tester.

Throughout most of Rational® Integration Tester, the following general actions can be performed on test artifacts by using the main toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, or context (right-click) menu.


Command	Icon	Keystroke	Action Taken
Expand			Expand the selected branch in the current tree.
Collapse			Collapse the selected branch in the current tree.
File > Open		Ctrl + O, Enter, double-click	Open the selected artifact for editing.
File > Save		Ctrl + S	Saves the test artifact that is selected in the current view.
File > Save All		Ctrl + Shift + S	Saves all test artifacts in the current view.
File > Send > Email			Select project resources, package them into a .zip archive, and send to a selected email address.
File > Close Project			Closes the current project and returns to the Welcome dialog.
Edit > Cut		Ctrl + X	Cut the selected item to the clipboard.
Edit > Copy		Ctrl + C	Copy the selected item to the clipboard.
Edit > Paste		Ctrl + V	Paste the contents of the clipboard (previously cut or copied items) into the current location.
Edit > Delete		Delete	Delete the currently selected artifact.
Edit > Find		Ctrl + F	Opens a search field (as in most Internet browsers) to enter a string of text to find in the current view.
Edit > Find Files
Rename		F2	Rename the currently selected artifact.
Window > Close Editor		Ctrl + W	Closes the active editor (in Test Factory).
Window > Close All Editors		Ctrl + Shift + W	Closes all open editors (in Test Factory).

Note: If a menu item or icon is unavailable, then the associated action is not permitted (for example, save unchanged item, rename multiple artifacts).