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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 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.
Publishing and running stubs
You can publish stubs that are created in IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to IBM Rational Test Control Panel, Dockerfile and build context, Kubernetes, or Istio, if the stub is based on a supported transport.
Controlling running stubs
You can control stubs that are running in a number of ways.
Locking and unlocking environments
Locking a IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel environment prevents other users from starting or stopping stubs in that environment.
Unlocking an environment
You can unlock an environment in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.

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.
- 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.
  - Rational® Test Virtualization Server overview
    Rational® Test Virtualization Server is software that is used for creating, maintaining, publishing, and running message-based stubs and database stubs.
  - Task flow: Working with the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Environments dashboard
    You can use the Rational® Test Control Panel Environments dashboard to perform various tasks such as starting, stopping stubs and scenarios, and modifying stub configurations after you have published stubs to Rational Test Control Panel. You can also lock the environment that contain the published stubs.
  - Virtualizing HTTP
    You can simulate an HTTP connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
  - Virtualizing HTTPS
    You can simulate an HTTPS connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
  - Virtualizing TCP
    You can simulate a TCP connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
  - Virtualizing a REST API without recording or synchronization
    You can virtualize REST APIs by using the Recording Studio, or by synchronizing WADL, Swagger, or RAML documents. When none of these options is available, you can still manually virtualize REST APIs that use path parameters.
  - Creating message-based stubs
    In Rational® Integration Tester, there are several methods that you can use to create a message-based stub.
  - Modifying message-based stubs
    You can use either the Test Editor or the Stub Editor to create, modify, and enhance any legacy or new stubs created by Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Creating and modifying database stubs
    You can create and modify database stubs in Rational® Integration Tester.
  - Configuring stubs to connect to Rational® Test Control Panel and the HTTP proxy
    A stub running on its own may not be sufficient in some cases, because it might have dependencies on services such as Rational® Test Control Panel or the HTTP proxy. If the stub is running on the public cloud and the services are running in the enterprise, you must configure the stub to connect to these services.
  - Publishing and running stubs
    You can publish stubs that are created in IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to IBM Rational Test Control Panel, Dockerfile and build context, Kubernetes, or Istio, if the stub is based on a supported transport.
    - Publishing stubs
      You can publish a stub to IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel, Dockerfile and build context, Kubernetes, or Istio with Kubernetes by using the Rational Integration Tester Publish Stubs wizard.
    - Running stubs
      Several methods are available to start and stop the stubs. You can also modify and control stubs while they are running.
    - Modifying running stubs
      If you are using Rational® Integration Tester to run a stub, you can modify the stub while it is running.
    - Controlling running stubs
      You can control stubs that are running in a number of ways.
      - Locking and unlocking environments
        Locking a IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel environment prevents other users from starting or stopping stubs in that environment.
        Locking an environment in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel
        When you lock an environment, you can continue to use the environment but other users cannot make any changes to it.
        Unlocking an environment
        You can unlock an environment in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.
      - Viewing broken stub messages
        On IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Environments Dashboard page, if a stub fails to start (irrespective of from where the stub is started) and displays a Broken state, placing your mouse pointer over the stub displays a message about the possible cause for the Broken state. See the Agent logs for more details of the cause.
      - Viewing stub logs
        IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel enables IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server users to view the console output of stubs that ran in the selected domain and environment.
      - Query Docker container logs
        You can use the docker logs commands to query Docker container logs.
      - Debugging message-based stubs
        Use the Message Differences window or options available within the stub console display to debug message-based stubs.
    - Behaviors for stubs
      You can create a simple behavior called "echo" that will expose one function and one event for use by a IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server stub.
  - Viewing results in Rational® Test Control Panel
    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.
  - Viewing usage statistics of virtual services in 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.
  - Viewing reports in Rational® Test Automation Server
    All the project stakeholders can view test reports for multiple testing products from the Results page on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. You can access the Results page from a web browser. Therefore, there is no need to install the desktop client.
  - Troubleshooting: Rational® Test Virtualization Server
    You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.

Unlocking an environment

You can unlock an environment in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.

Procedure

Log into Rational® Test Control Panel.
Note: If you are not an administrator user, you must use the user name that you used to lock the environment.
The application window is displayed.
Click the Environments icon or navigation link.

The Environments Dashboard is displayed.
You can change the domain and environment you want to view by clicking the domain/environment link, and from the domain/environment selection dialog displayed, select the domain, and then select the environment.

The Environments Dashboard is displayed for the selected environment and domain.
If you are not the user who locked the environment, you can request for unlocking the environment or wait until the locked time to pass. The expected end time is shown in the message when you place the cursor over the Lock icon or in the Unlock Environment window.
Click the Lock icon ().
In the Unlock Environment window, enter your reason for unlocking in the Reason for environment Unlock field and then, click REQUEST UNLOCK.
- If you are the user who locked the environment, the Unlock Request? dialog is displayed and you can either REJECT or APPROVE the unlock request.
- If you are the user requesting the unlocking of the environment, the unlock request is sent to the user who locked the environment and that user can either REJECT or APPROVE the request.

Results

Request for unlocking the selected environment in the selected domain is sent to the user who locked the environment. The unlocked environment is displayed with the unlocked icon ( image of the icon ).

Note: All environment locking and unlocking events, including reasons, are recorded in the Rational® Test Control Panel Audit log. (For information about this log, refer to Administration of Rational Test Control Panel.)