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Release Notes
This document contains information about what's new, installation, and known issues in IBM® Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
Product description
You can find the description of Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality.
What's new
You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality.
Installing the product
You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality.
Known issues
Contacting IBM Rational Software Support
You can find information about IBM technical support assistance for Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality.
Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality. This guide is intended for new users.
Product overview
You can gain the conceptual understanding of the product and its test extensions with these topics.
Streamlined Eclipse and full Eclipse overview
When you work in the streamlined Eclipse mode, only those functions that are directly related to the product are enabled in the workbench. When you install the product, by default, the check box to use the streamlined Eclipse mode is selected. With the full Eclipse mode, you have access to all Eclipse functions.
Tutorials
This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of .
Test an SOA application
The movies in this tutorial show you the main features of IBM® Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality or the SOA extension for IBM Rational Performance Tester. The tutorial requires Flash Player to view.
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.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test scripts in Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
Creating tests
To create a test, you record representative interactions with an application.
Editing tests
After you record a test, you can edit it to include datasets (to provide variable data rather than the data that you recorded), verification points (to confirm that the test runs as expected), and data correlation (to ensure that returned data is appropriate for the corresponding request). You can also add protocol-specific elements to a test. When you edit a test, the modified items appear in italic type. The italic type changes to regular type after you save the test.
Simulating services with stubs
Service stubs enable you to simulate the behavior of an actual service for a wide variety testing or integration purposes.
Sending service requests with the generic service client
The generic service client enables you to send requests to services for which you do not have a convenient client and to view the responses returned by the service.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you can perform on schedules, test execution with custom code, and Extending Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality to support other protocols. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Running schedules with performance testing
After you have added the user groups, tests, and other items to a schedule, and you are satisfied that it represents a realistic workload, you run the schedule.
Extending test execution with custom code
You can extend how you run your tests by writing custom Java™ code and calling the code from the test. You can also specify that results from the tests that are affected by your custom code be included in reports.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
Evaluating results in web analytic reports
After the test run, evaluate the results in the web analytic reports. Web analytics collect data using new technologies thereby providing better user experience.
Comparing service test response contents
After running a service test with equal or contain verifications points, you can use the Raw transaction data view to compare the actual XML or text contents of the message returns with the expected results of the verification points in the test log.
Logs overview
uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
Troubleshooting Guide
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality.
Troubleshooting performance testing
This topic provides information about how to troubleshoot several problems with IBM® Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality.
Performance testing error messages
Find more information about the error messages.
Reference Guide
This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality.
Accessibility features
Accessibility features help users who have physical disabilities, such as visual and, hearing impairment, or limited mobility, to use the software products successfully.
General reference for performance testing
See these performance testing topics for general reference.
UI preferences
Read the UI preferences topics.
WSDL security editor reference
With the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) security editor you can create and edit security configurations for a WSDL file.
All Guides (PDFs)
This page contains the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides for Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality in PDF format.
Security Considerations
You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
Security Considerations
This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
Notices
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.