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Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.

Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
- Rational® Integration Tester overview
  You can use Rational® Integration Tester to create, modify, run service tests, and performance tests.
- Testing methodology
  By following four basic guidelines, you can incorporate Rational® Integration Tester into your testing methodology. These guidelines drive efficient and expedient integration testing, and they can be applied to your testing process and infrastructure requirements.
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing
  A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.
- Getting started with testing
  You can start using Rational® Integration Tester by completing the preliminary tasks such as creating and running a test, creating and running a stub, recording an HTTP proxy, and running a stub in a Docker container.
- Rational® Test Control Panel overview
  Rational® Test Virtualization Server stubs designed in Rational Integration Tester are published to Rational Test Control Panel, which holds them in a repository.
- Rational® Integration Tester accessibility features
  Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use Rational® Integration Tester.

Getting Started

This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.

Before you can perform the various tasks described in the Getting Started Guide and the other guides, you must install Rational® Integration Tester. See Installation.

You can find the following information to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester and Rational® Test Control Panel: