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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.
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.
Triggers view
A trigger is essentially a publisher that is used to send an event to the system under test. Existing triggers are displayed in the Triggers view, which is in the upper-left portion of the Recording Studio perspective. It shares space with the Event Monitors view. To show the Triggers view, click the Triggers tab at the bottom of the view.
Running triggers
Triggers can be run in several ways: from the Triggers view, Events view, and any view where the trigger was one of the last 10 items to be executed.

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.
  - Monitor Configuration view
    After you set up the system under test for recording, you can choose what you want to record in the Recording Studio. You can do this by selecting Monitor Configuration (in the upper-left portion of the Recording Studio perspective) that specifies what you want to record. It shares space with the Triggers view. To show the Monitor Configuration view, click the Monitor Configuration tab at the bottom of the view.
  - Events Monitors Properties view
    The Event Monitor Properties view, located directly below the Event Monitors and Triggers view, displays information about the operation that is selected in the Event Monitors view.
  - Events view
    The Events View displays events that are captured by enabled event monitors. The perspective at the right of Recording Studio is divided into two views: a list of captured events on top and details for the selected event at the bottom. Within the view, you can send a response to selected events or run and manage triggers.
  - Triggers view
    A trigger is essentially a publisher that is used to send an event to the system under test. Existing triggers are displayed in the Triggers view, which is in the upper-left portion of the Recording Studio perspective. It shares space with the Event Monitors view. To show the Triggers view, click the Triggers tab at the bottom of the view.
    - Creating standalone triggers
      You can create triggers from the Triggers view or the Events View by using the transport settings that are configured in an operations message exchange pattern (MEP) or by using the settings in an existing trigger.
    - Running triggers
      Triggers can be run in several ways: from the Triggers view, Events view, and any view where the trigger was one of the last 10 items to be executed.
    - Adding or removing triggers to or from the triggers menu
      You can use the Add or Remove icon in the toolbar to add or remove triggers to or from the trigger menu.
  - Using the Recording Studio
    Use the Recording Studio to monitor and capture events, and use captured events for tests and other artifacts for use within your Rational® Integration Tester project.
  - Data masking concepts, methods, and types
    Use Rational® Integration Tester to add a data mask to particular fields in recorded messages that may contain sensitive data. When you add a mask, you prevent that sensitive data from appearing in any assets created from those messages, such as tests, test data, stubs, and data models.
- 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 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.

Running triggers

Triggers can be run in several ways: from the Triggers view, Events view, and any view where the trigger was one of the last 10 items to be executed.

In the Triggers view, right-click the trigger to run and select Run Trigger from the menu.
In the Triggers view, select the trigger and click the Run icon in Rational® Integration Tester main toolbar (or press F5). The Test Lab perspective is displayed and the trigger is executed there.
In the Events View, click the Triggers menu icon to run the trigger that was last run.
In the Events View, if the trigger was added to the Triggers menu, click the small arrow next to the Triggers menu and select the trigger.
In any view, if the trigger is one of the last 10 test items to be executed, click the small arrow next to the Run icon in Rational® Integration Tester main toolbar and select the trigger. The Test Lab perspective is displayed and the trigger is executed there.