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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 IBM® Rational® Performance Tester with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with Jenkins
You can use the Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins
You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project or the Pipeline project.

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
  Installation of 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® Service Tester for SOA Quality, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate IBM® Rational® Performance Tester 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 Rational® Performance Tester.
  - Running tests by using Ant
    You can use Ant to run compound tests and performance tests from the command-line interface.
  - 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 Rational® Performance Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Performance Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - Integration with Apache JMeter
    You can use JMeter tests extension with IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Performance Tester 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.
  - Integration with Rational® Integration Tester
    You can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to run integration tests from Rational Performance Tester. You can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from Rational Performance Tester by establishing the connection between the products. You can also 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.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
    - Environment variables
      You can add environment variables on the Jenkins server to run the Jenkins build by referring to environment variables.
    - Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins
      You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project or the Pipeline project.
    - Installing the plugin on the Jenkins primary server
      You must install the Jenkins plugin to run test assets from the Jenkins server.
    - Configuring the Freestyle project
      You must configure a Freestyle project to add a build step, and then run test assets from Jenkins.
    - Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins
      You must create a pipeline script to run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
    - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the sample script
      You can configure a Pipeline project directly from the Jenkins UI by using the sample pipeline scripts to run test assets from Jenkins.
    - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the script from SCM
      You can configure the Pipeline project to use the pipeline script from the Source Code Management (SCM), and then run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
    - Running tests from Jenkins
      You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, 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
    You can integrate Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) by using a readily available template from the installation directory of IBM® Rational® Performance Tester to run performance test scripts and obtain test result details.

Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins

You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project or the Pipeline project.

The following table lists the task flows for running test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project:

Tasks	More information
Install the Jenkins plugin.	Installing the plugin on the Jenkins primary server
Configure the Freestyle project.	Configuring the Freestyle project
Run Rational® Performance Tester tests on Jenkins.	Running tests from Jenkins

You can perform the following tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project by using the sample script:

Tasks	More information
Install the Jenkins plugin.	Installing the plugin on the Jenkins primary server
Create a pipeline script from the Jenkins UI.	Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins
Configure the Pipeline project.	Configuring the Pipeline project by using the sample script
Run Rational® Performance Tester tests on Jenkins.	Running tests from Jenkins

You can perform the following tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project by using the script from Source Code Management (SCM):

Tasks	More information
Install the Jenkins plugin.	Installing the plugin on the Jenkins primary server
Create a pipeline script and commit the script to the Git repository.	For more information, refer to the Jenkins documentation.
Configure the Pipeline project.	Configuring the Pipeline project by using the script from SCM
Run Rational® Performance Tester tests on Jenkins.	Running tests from Jenkins