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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integration with other products
You can integrate Rational® Performance Tester Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with Azure DevOps
When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality
  Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for your installed IBM® software and customized packages is administered through the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager. The Manage Licenses wizard displays license information for each installed package.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of Rational® Performance Tester Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate Rational® Performance Tester Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with .
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use ant to run performance and compound tests from the command line. Starting from V2.0.0 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously. of the ant plugin is supported in V10.0.2 of the testing products.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
    - Running tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
      After you create the tests in for the application that you are testing, and after you install the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension in your organization, you can run the tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
  - Integrating with Apache JMeter
    Starting from 9.5, you can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to execute JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system. You can store your test assets in the Git repository and use EGit for the daily version control operations.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in Rational Performance Tester.
  - Testing with Rational® Integration Tester
    , you can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to execute Integration tests. In , you can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from by establishing the connection between the products. In , you can create a compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration of Jaeger with the product
    Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
  - Testing with Jenkins
    You can use the Jenkins plugin for testing to run tests on a Jenkins server by using a Jenkins build step.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from V9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
  - Integrating and running performance test scripts in Micro Focus ALM
    To obtain test result details, you must integrate and run performance test scripts in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) by using a readily available template available in IBM® Rational® Performance Tester installation directory.

Integration with Azure DevOps

When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.

Prerequisites

Before you integrate Azure DevOps with , you must have completed certain tasks. See Prerequisites for Azure DevOps Integration.

Overview

You can use the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that enables you to select any type of test created in that you can add to your task for the job in the Azure DevOps pipelines.