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Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Integration Tester Reference
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.
Extending Rational® Integration Tester functionality by using custom functions
You can add more calculations and operations to tests by using the Rational® Integration Tester custom function class. Rational Integration Tester custom function is a Java™ class that extends the com.ghc.ghTester.expressions function.
Create the plug-ins in Eclipse
Rational® Integration Tester recognizes functions that are packaged as Eclipse plug-ins. You can create a plug-in and register it as a function in Rational Integration Tester from an Eclipse IDE.
Setting dependencies to Rational® Integration Tester functions
A dependency on Rational® Integration Tester is needed to extend and implement the Function class. This is similar to adding a Java™ build path entry to Rational Integration Tester.
Setting up the target platform
Set up the target platform to Rational® Integration Tester installation folder to enable setting up the dependency, extend, and implement the Function class.

Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Integration Tester Reference
  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.
  - Integration Tester Guide
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
  - Extending Rational® Integration Tester functionality by using custom functions
    You can add more calculations and operations to tests by using the Rational® Integration Tester custom function class. Rational Integration Tester custom function is a Java™ class that extends the com.ghc.ghTester.expressions function.
    - The formatDate example for a custom function
      You can learn about creating a custom function by using an example. The example shows how to build a function, called formatDate, that parses a string-based date representation and returns it in an alternative format.
    - Create the plug-ins in Eclipse
      Rational® Integration Tester recognizes functions that are packaged as Eclipse plug-ins. You can create a plug-in and register it as a function in Rational Integration Tester from an Eclipse IDE.
      - Creating Eclipse plug-in project
        You need a plug-in project to hold the Java™ class file and other resources.
      - Setting dependencies to Rational® Integration Tester functions
        A dependency on Rational® Integration Tester is needed to extend and implement the Function class. This is similar to adding a Java™ build path entry to Rational Integration Tester.
        Setting up the target platform
        Set up the target platform to Rational® Integration Tester installation folder to enable setting up the dependency, extend, and implement the Function class.
        Setting the dependency in the manifest
        You can set the dependency in the manifest.
    - Implementing the function class
      If you have a function that is written for Rational® Integration Tester 8.5, you can convert it to work in Rational Integration Tester 8.6 or later.
    - Exposing the function
      You can use your own function with the function extension that consists of a number of attributes that describe the function (for example, name) and the class that implements the function.
    - Configuring the function in Rational® Integration Tester
      After the function is developed and a plug-in is generated, you should communicate that to Rational® Integration Tester by configuring the function.
    - Creating a function plug-in without Eclipse
      You can use Eclipse IDE to easily create the plug-ins. Alternatively, you can build a function by using the Sun Java™ 6 SDK.
    - Converting existing function classes with Eclipse
      If you have an existing function that is written for Rational® Integration Tester 4, you can use Eclipse to convert the function for use with Rational Integration Tester 5 or later.
    - Converting existing function classes without Eclipse
      You can convert functions that were written for Rational® Integration Tester 4 to work with 5 or later, without Eclipse.
  - Working in non-GUI mode
    You can use the tools and executable files that are provided along with the product software. You can use these tools to perform different test actions in a non-GUI mode.
- Technical Tester Guide
  Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
- Integration Tester Guide (Service Virtualization)
  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.

Setting up the target platform

Set up the target platform to Rational® Integration Tester installation folder to enable setting up the dependency, extend, and implement the Function class.

About this task

Follow the steps to set the target platform in Eclipse:

Procedure

Go to Window > Preferences > Plug-in Development > Target Platform.
Select the active Target Platform and click Edit.
The Edit Target Definition window opens.
Click Add, select Directory, and then click Next.
Click Browse and select the Rational® Integration Tester plug-ins folder.
For example, C:\Program Files\IBM\\IBM®IMShared\plugins.
Select the Content tab and select File Path for the Group by method.
Select the Rational® Integration Tester specific plug-ins from the list for IBM®IMShared plug-ins.
List of Rational® Integration Tester plug-ins:
- com.ghc.*
- com.greenhat.*
- com.ibm.greenhat.*
- com.ibm.rational.rit.*
Click Finish to close the Target Content window.
Click OK to close the Preferences window.