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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality. After you install the product, 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® Service Tester for SOA Quality with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with Rational® Team Concert™
You can integrate Rational® Team Concert™ to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in Rational Performance Tester.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install Rational® Service Tester for SOA Quality. After you install the product, 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
  No upgrade is supported to the current major version of the product. You must uninstall the existing version of the product before installing the latest version of the product.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate 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 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously. V5.0 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.
  - 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 Rational® Quality Manager
    You can integrate Rational® Quality Manager with to initiate test runs from Rational Quality Manager.
  - Integration with Rational® Team Concert™
    You can integrate Rational® Team Concert™ to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in Rational Performance Tester.
    - Configuring the URL of Rational® Team Concert™
      You must configure the URL of the Configuring the URL of Rational® Team Concert™ server to use it as defect tracking tool in Rational Performance Tester.
    - Tracking defects with Configuring the URL of Rational® Team Concert™
      You can submit defects to Rational® Team Concert™ from . By default, the test log editor uses Bugzilla as the defect tracking site. You must configure the product to use Rational Team Concert for defect tracking.
  - Testing with Rational® Integration Tester
    Starting from v9.1.1, 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 schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration with UrbanCode Deploy
    With the development team adopting a continuous delivery model, the testing team needs to follow a stringent timeline. Integrating UrbanCode™ Deploy with your product automates the test execution process. If you have many tests to run at regular intervals automatically, you can use UrbanCode Deploy to initiate test execution.
  - 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 performance 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 Rational® Team Concert™

You can integrate Rational® Team Concert™ to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in Rational® Performance Tester.

You can use Rational® Performance Tester to record and play back tests for the application that you develop and view their results. When you discover that you might want to raise defects, issues, or other types of work items for the test assets, you can create defects, issues, or other work items without the need to open Rational® Team Concert™.

For more information, refer to the Rational® Team Concert™ documentation.

The following table lists the tasks that you must perform to integrate Rational® Performance Tester with Rational® Team Concert™:

Tasks	Go to...
Install Rational® Performance Tester.	Installation of the product by using Installation Manager
Create any or all of the following types of test assets in Rational® Performance Tester to test your application: Compound tests Performance tests Schedules (Rate or VU Schedules)	Test Author Guide
Install Rational® Team Concert™ and gain access to it.	Rational® Team Concert™ documentation
Run the test assets.	Running a local schedule or test
Configure the Rational® Team Concert™ server URL in Rational® Performance Tester.	Configuring the URL of Rational Team Concert
Create defects from Rational® Performance Tester.	Tracking defects with Configuring the URL of Rational Team Concert