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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integrations
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.
Rational® Integration Tester and HP Quality Center
The Rational® Integration Tester add-in for HP Quality Center provides a way to integrate the powerful test creation and execution functionality of Rational Integration Tester with the organizational structures provided by Quality Center.
Setting up the integration with HP Quality Center
To integrate with HP Quality Center, a series of files are provided that enable the Quality Center client to locate and execute tests and suites from a Rational® Integration Tester project. All modifications that are required for the integration are performed on the Quality Center server. All clients that connect to such servers are automatically updated to enable the Rational Integration Tester functionality.
Setting up HP Quality Center 11.x and 12.0 client
Setting up HP ALM server for auto deployment of files to the clients is a simple way to enable functionality for any client that is accessing the server. In some organizations, however, auto deployment is not a feasible scenario (for example, if security policies prohibit clients from having local admin privileges). In such cases, clients that require the integrated functionality can have the plug-in files deployed manually. In this way, the plug-in files can be targeted to only the clients that require them, rather than all HP Quality Center users.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of 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.
- Installation of Rational® Test Control Panel
  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.
- Configuration of Rational® Integration Tester
- Administering IBM® Rational® Test Control PanelRational® 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.
- Integrations
  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.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and Apache Maven
    Apache Maven is a software build tool that is based on the concept of a Project Object Model (POM). You can use the Maven plug-in that is provided for Rational® Integration Tester to run integration tests and test suites as part of your Maven build.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in Rational® Integration Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Integration Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and change management tools
    Rational® Integration Tester can be integrated with the OSLC-compliant Change Management Integration Providers such as Rational Team Concert™. It can also be integrated with Team Foundation Server Change Management Integration Providers (such as Microsoft™ Team Foundation Server), and Atlassian Jira. After integration, defects and projects can be tracked directly through Rational Team Concert.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and Git
    The Git integration feature provides a flexible test asset management method to track, back up, and collaborate on a project with multiple users. Collaborators in Git can import projects and test assets from shared repositories into IBM® Rational® Integration Tester and contribute their own assets and changes to the project so that everyone has access to the changes.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and HP Quality Center
    The Rational® Integration Tester add-in for HP Quality Center provides a way to integrate the powerful test creation and execution functionality of Rational Integration Tester with the organizational structures provided by Quality Center.
    - Setting up the integration with HP Quality Center
      To integrate with HP Quality Center, a series of files are provided that enable the Quality Center client to locate and execute tests and suites from a Rational® Integration Tester project. All modifications that are required for the integration are performed on the Quality Center server. All clients that connect to such servers are automatically updated to enable the Rational Integration Tester functionality.
      - Installation files for HP Quality Center
        To enable the integration of IBM® Rational® Integration Tester and Quality Center, it is necessary to modify the list of existing test types and deploy more files to the Quality Center server for some versions.
      - Setting up the HP Application Lifecycle Management 11.x server
        To enable the integration with HP Quality Center 11.x, you must deploy the Rational® Integration Tester additional files to the ALM 11.x Server.
      - Setting up the HP Application Lifecycle Management 12.0 server
        To enable the integration with HP Quality Center 12.0, you must deploy the Rational® Integration Tester additional files to the ALM 12.0 Server.
      - Setting up HP Quality Center 11.x and 12.0 client
        Setting up HP ALM server for auto deployment of files to the clients is a simple way to enable functionality for any client that is accessing the server. In some organizations, however, auto deployment is not a feasible scenario (for example, if security policies prohibit clients from having local admin privileges). In such cases, clients that require the integrated functionality can have the plug-in files deployed manually. In this way, the plug-in files can be targeted to only the clients that require them, rather than all HP Quality Center users.
      - Installing the Connectivity Add-In on the clients
        After deploying the Rational® Integration Tester files to HP Quality Center, you must install the Connectivity Add-in on the clients to execute Rational Integration Tester tests from HP Quality Center.
      - Setting up the HP Application Lifecycle Management 12.2 and 12.5 server
        To enable the integration with HP Quality Center 12.x, you must deploy the Rational® Integration Tester additional files to the ALM 12.x Server.
      - Setting up HP Quality Center 12.2 and 12.5 client
        Setting up HP ALM server for auto deployment of files to the clients is a simple way to enable functions for any client that is accessing the server. However, in some organizations auto deployment is not a feasible scenario (for example, if security policies prohibit clients from having local admin privileges). In such cases, clients that require the integrated functions can deploy the plug-in file manually. In this way, the plug-in files can be targeted to only the clients that require them, rather than all HP Quality Center users.
      - Installing the Connectivity Tool and performing HP ALM Client Registration on 12.2 and 12.5 clients
        After you deploy the Rational® Integration Tester files to HP Quality Center, you must install the Connectivity Tool and perform the HP ALM Client Registration on the clients to create and run Rational Integration Tester tests from HP Quality Center.
      - Example: Customizing the workflow in HP ALM Quality Center
        You can add workflow scripts to HP Quality Center to customize the user interface and add actions for users.
      - Normalizing the location of Rational® Integration Tester assets
        By normalizing the location of Rational® Integration Tester assets in HP Quality Center, multiple users can access the same resources locally.
    - Working with integration test artifacts in HP Quality Center
      You can create tests in HP Quality Center by using the GH-Tester test type. You can also link Rational® Integration Tester tests to HP Quality Center tests with the Quick Link tool.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and IBM® Engineering Test Management
    When you integrate Rational® Integration Tester with Engineering Test Management, you can run Rational Integration Tester tests and suites in the centralized test management environment of Engineering Test Management.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
    The integration of Rational® Integration Tester with IBM® Rational Quality Manager enables the execution of Rational Integration Tester tests and suites in Rational Quality Manager centralized test management environment.
  - Integration with Rational Software Architect Designer
    With Rational® Software Architect Designer, you can design an organization's services, which include technical description, technical documentation, and links to other technical documentation. As a tester, you can pull this information into Rational Integration Tester by using a WSDL or WADL add operation and populate the Architecture School quickly and accurately. Rational Integration Tester parses the added documents in a way that you can directly use them in your testing.
  - Rational® Integration Tester and Jenkins
    When you use Jenkins for the continuous integration (CI) of your application, you can run tests for testing your application. You can run tests created in Rational® Integration Tester for your application in Jenkins by using the Integration Tester Jenkins Plugin.
  - Rational Integration Tester and UrbanCode Deploy
    When you use UrbanCode™ Deploy (UCD) for automating application deployments of your application, you can run tests created for your application that are created in Rational® Integration Tester. You can run the tests from UCD by using the UCD plugin for Rational Integration Tester or the UCD plugin for Rational Test Virtualization Server
  - Rational® Test Virtualization Server with Engineering Test Management
    You can implement Rational® Test Virtualization Server in Engineering Test Management integrated with Rational Test Virtualization Server by using Rational Test Control Panel.
  - Rational® Test Virtualization Server with Rational® Quality Manager
    You can implement Rational® Test Virtualization Server in Rational Quality Manager integrated with Rational Test Virtualization Server by using Rational Test Control Panel.

Setting up HP Quality Center 11.x and 12.0 client

Setting up HP ALM server for auto deployment of files to the clients is a simple way to enable functionality for any client that is accessing the server. In some organizations, however, auto deployment is not a feasible scenario (for example, if security policies prohibit clients from having local admin privileges). In such cases, clients that require the integrated functionality can have the plug-in files deployed manually. In this way, the plug-in files can be targeted to only the clients that require them, rather than all HP Quality Center users.

About this task

To deploy the required files to a HP Quality Center client:

Procedure

Deploy the Rational® Integration Tester installation file GH-Tester.ini to the HP ALM server.
1. Extract the QualityCenterServerDist11_5.zip (for HP Quality Center 11.5 and 12.0) to a temporary location.
2. Copy the GH-Tester.ini from the GHTesterQCIntegration\CustomTestTypes to the ALM Deployment Directory\application\20qcbin.war\CustomTestTypes
Note: For detailed information, see Setting up the HP Application Lifecycle Management 11.x server. Do not copy any other files other than the GH-Tester.ini file.
Log in to the HP Quality Center using a browser and verify that you have all the required files in the client workstation.
Log out from the HP Quality Center and locate the HP ALM-Client folder.
By default, the location is C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\HP\ALM-Client\server_name , where the user_name is your operating system user name and the server_name is the name of the HP Quality Center server to which the client is connected to.
Extract the contents of QualityCenterServerDist11_5-client-only.zip to the ALM-Client folder.
Open the command prompt, change the directory to ALM-Client and run the script ITIntegrationSetup.cmd.
Each of the required components are registered in the client workstation. For more information, see the readme file that is provided with the QualityCenterServerDist11_5-client-only.zip

What to do next

Installing the Connectivity Add-In on the clients