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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 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.

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.
  - 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 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.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Installed IBM® Rational® Performance Tester and UrbanCode™ Deploy agent on computers where the tests will be run.
Downloaded the Rational® Performance Tester UCD plugin from the IBM WebSphere, Liberty & DevOps Community portal .

For more information about specific versions of plugin, see Integration plugin compatibility matrix.
Installed UrbanCode™ Deploy server and deploy the Performance plugin on the server.
Note: To install the UrbanCode™ Deploy plugins, see its documentation.

About this task

With the Rational® Performance Tester plugin for UrbanCode™ Deploy, you can automate the execution of tests, compound tests, and schedules. For a performance test, install Rational® Performance Tester on the target computer where the test will be run. When you run a schedule, ensure that the workbench is connected to the agent computers.

Note:

To run tests on Mac OS, you must add an environment variable that points to the installation directory of the product, for example, export TEST_WORKBENCH_HOME=/opt/IBM/SDP. For Windows™ and Linux®, this environment variable is already defined.

Procedure

To create a workflow for the newly created component process, click the component process. The Tools view displays the available plugin steps.
From Rational Test Workbench > IBM Rational Performance Tester, drag the Run IBM Rational Performance Tester Test step to the design space.
Specify the properties for the step. For information about the properties, see Properties of steps.
After you configure the step properties, click Save.