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Reference Guide
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.
Test Factory
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.
Test Suites: Overview and tasks
A Test Suite represents a group of tests, test suites, and scenarios. Any combination of these items can be included, but a test suite must always contain at least one scenario and one test. Test suites are used mainly to construct reusable, packaged regression tests that can be run across multiple environments, or repeatedly within the same environment.
Manipulating the contents of a test suite
Scenarios, test suites, and tests can be added to or removed from an existing test suite. They can be moved up or down within the scenario that contains them. Scenarios can be edited within a test suite. The item trees within a test suite can be expanded or collapsed. All of the test suite actions can be done by using the test suite toolbar or by right-clicking an item and using the menu.

Reference Guide
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.
- Rational® Integration Tester overview
  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.
- Architecture School
  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.
- Recording Studio
  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.
- Test Factory
  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.
  - Tests: Overview and tasks
    Tests are the fundamental building blocks of integration and SOA testing. A test sends an input message to an external service or system in a protocol-specific way and validates the reply against an expected result.
  - Test Suites: Overview and tasks
    A Test Suite represents a group of tests, test suites, and scenarios. Any combination of these items can be included, but a test suite must always contain at least one scenario and one test. Test suites are used mainly to construct reusable, packaged regression tests that can be run across multiple environments, or repeatedly within the same environment.
    - Manipulating the contents of a test suite
      Scenarios, test suites, and tests can be added to or removed from an existing test suite. They can be moved up or down within the scenario that contains them. Scenarios can be edited within a test suite. The item trees within a test suite can be expanded or collapsed. All of the test suite actions can be done by using the test suite toolbar or by right-clicking an item and using the menu.
    - Test suite scenarios
      In a test suite, a scenario controls how to execute the items it contains. A scenario can be added to a test suite.
    - Results publishers
      To automatically publish the results of a test suite after it is run, use Results Publishers, which is created under Project Settings. Specify the publishers to use and the details of the results to publish and how to publish them on the Results Publishers tab.
    - The Continue on Fail option
      By default, all items in a test suite are executed when the suite is executed, regardless of whether previous items pass or fail. Depending on the nature of the tests it contains, however, the execution of a test suite can be terminated if one or more specific test items fail. This behavior is controlled with the Continue on Fail option, which can be set independently for each item in a suite.
    - Test Suite execution
      Test Suite execution can be initiated in the Test Factory, but the suite is run in the Test Lab perspective.
  - Stubs: Overview and tasks
    Stubs can be used to simulate services that you are unable to use or that are otherwise unavailable.
  - The Action Editor
    The Action Editor is used to modify the actions that are contained within a test or stub.
  - Creating a test template
    To save time when you are creating tests, you can create a template of test sequences that can be used to quickly create a number of pre-defined tests.
  - Test data sources
    You can configure test data sources that can drive a test template or a test by using several different instances of data. In this way, you can parameterize your tests, substituting specific data from a pre-configured source in different test iterations. You can also use test data to validate the results that are returned by different test actions.
- Test Lab
  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.
- Results Gallery
  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.
- Messages
  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.
- Schemas
  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.
- Database resources, connections, and bindings
  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.
- Identity stores and SSL
  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.
- Scripting within tests and stubs
  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.
- External tools
  Rational® Integration Tester is primarily GUI-based, but you can also run or view tests, suites, and stubs outside of the Rational Integration Tester.
- Test actions
  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.
- Formatting and parsing date-time patterns
  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
  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.

Manipulating the contents of a test suite

Scenarios, test suites, and tests can be added to or removed from an existing test suite. They can be moved up or down within the scenario that contains them. Scenarios can be edited within a test suite. The item trees within a test suite can be expanded or collapsed. All of the test suite actions can be done by using the test suite toolbar or by right-clicking an item and using the menu.

When you add an item to a test suite, the new item is added below the currently selected item. For scenarios, new items are added within the scenario.

The test suite toolbar

The test suite toolbar is displayed above the contents of a suite in the editing panel.

The toolbar is displayed above the resource list in the editor pane.

The menu

The menu, available by right-clicking any item within a test suite, contains most of the same actions as the toolbar. The "expand" and "collapse" actions are not displayed, and the Enable, Disable, and Remove actions are included.

The context menu is displayed when you right-click an item in the suite.

Inclusion of performance tests

You can include performance tests in a test suite, as you would any other test, with the following limitations:

Performance tests contribute to the completion percentage for the job. Results are written to the database, but are not displayed in the results gallery for the suite. Instead you must call up the Performance Test results individually.
Performance tests cannot be run in parallel mode.

Other limitations

The following limitations apply to editing test suites:

Items can be moved only within the scenario that contains them. Items cannot be moved from one scenario to another.
If you delete a test resource from the project, the missing resource is displayed in a red box in the editor. The suite still runs but the missing resource cannot be run. For example, if you delete a test from the project tree in the Test Factory, the missing test is highlighted in the editor and skipped when the suite is run.