Testing with Rational® Integration Tester

Before you begin

To be able to work with Integration tests, you must install Rational® Performance Tester Extension for Rational® Integration Tester.

You also need a Rational® Performance Tester agent or a Rational® Integration Tester agent to execute the tests remotely. When installing Rational® Integration Tester agent, it is recommended to choose This Agent will only run probes option.

Moreover, if you update Integration tests in Rational® Performance Tester and want to apply the updates back to Rational® Integration Tester, you must install Rational® Integration Tester and define the path to its installation directory to set the connection.

Connecting to an existing Integration project

When you connect both the products any change or delete action made in one product workspace is reflected on the other product workspace, if both the products are installed on your machine.

Warning: If you delete a project from the Test Navigator, be sure that the option Delete project contents on disk is not selected in the Delete Resources dialog, otherwise the project would be deleted in Rational® Integration Tester if it is connected.

• In Rational® Performance Tester, right-click on the Test Navigator, select New > Other> Rational® Integration Tester Connect to an Rational® Integration TesterProject and click Next.

  

• In the wizard page, click Browse and select the root folder that contains the project.

  If the path contains a project, its name should automatically appear in Project Name and the Finish button should be enabled.

• In When project is connected, you have to perform one of the following actions:
  • Click Do nothing to only import the project.
  • Click Open Create Rate Schedule wizard to select the test, create a Rate Schedule, and add the test to it.
  • Click Open Create VU Schedule wizard to select the test, create a VU Schedule, and add the test to it.
  • Click Open Create Compound Test Wizard to select the test, create a Compound test, and add the test to the Compound test. For more details, see Creating a compound test and Adding tests into a compound test.

    For example: select the Open Create VU Schedule wizardVU Schedule action and click Next.

    The Create Rate Schedule for Integration Tester or Create VU Schedule for Rational Integration Tester wizard displays the list of tests contained in your project.

  • Select one or more tests and click Next.
  • In Schedule File Name and Location wizard, select a schedule in an existing project, or create it from this window. You just need to enter a name for the new schedule and click Finish. The procedure is the same for the compound test.
  • The Test Navigator displays the projects:

    • The Rational® Integration Tester project you are connected to, or that you imported, with the tests.
    • The Rational® Performance Tester project containing the schedule or compound test. If Rational® Integration Tester is installed, Connected is indicated near the name of the project in the Test Navigator. The Schedule or compound test automatically opens in the dedicated editor.

    

Setting Rational® Integration Tester preferences

Opening Rational® Integration Tester resources from the Test Navigator

• Once the preferences are set, you can open an Rational® Integration Tester project.
• In the Test Navigator, open the project root node and children nodes, and at any level, right-click and select Open in Rational® Integration Tester Workbench.

  If Rational® Integration Tester is automatically detected, the workspace opens for the selected resources.

  If Rational® Integration Tester is not detected, a dialog opens on a Preference page where you need to verify the path to the execution file.

• Warning: Rational® Integration Tester cannot open more than one project at a time. If you have another project open, you will get an error. In that case, close Rational® Integration Tester and try to open the project again.

Importing Rational® Integration Tester project

If both the products are not installed on the same machine, you can import an Rational® Integration Tester project in your workspace. Another reason for the import is when you have Rational® Integration Tester installed but you do not want to connect to the Rational® Integration Tester project. In that case, the project is duplicated, any updates in one product workspace will not be reflected in the other product's workspace.

• To import an Rational® Integration Tester project:
• Right-click on the Test Navigator, choose Import and select Existing project into workspace.
• Choose Select root directory or Select archive file; select a project to import and click Finish.

  The selected project appears in the Test Navigator and the compound test or schedule editor automatically opens.

Modifying Rational® Integration Tester environments in Rational® Performance Tester

In the schedule or compound test, you can select Rational® Integration Tester tests and change the environment of each test. The environments are set in Rational® Integration Tester, you can only change the selection from the edited schedule or compound test.

• Open the schedule or compound editor and select a test.
• In the Rational® Integration Tester details, you can browse and change the properties of the selected test. The Test path, the Environments and Decription are automatically updated accordingly.
• To select another environment for the Integration Tester test, use the dropdown menu.

Alternatively, you can change the environment selection for a test for a collection of tests:

• Right-click on the tree at any level under a node in the schedule or compound test and select Replace Rational® Integration Tester Environments.
• In the Set Invocation Tester Environments wizard, the first page displays the list of projects that use the selected environment and the number of tests from project that use this environment in the schedule or compound test.
• Select another used environment in the dropdown list. Click Finish. The new choice applies to the selected node and its children.

Next step is to create a compound test or schedule in Rational® Performance Tester to run the Integration tests, see Creating a VU Schedule or Creating a compound test.

You can add a dataset mapper in the compound test or schedule for tests that are using multiple tags. See Adding Dataset Mapper to map tags in the Rational® Integration Tester tests with the variable values of Rational® Performance Tester.