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Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in Rational® Test Automation Server. You can find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Agents overview
You can find information about the agents that you must install on remote computers and configure the agents with the offline user token so that the agents register with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. After the agents are registered, you can add them to your projects and then select them as locations to run tests.
Test run considerations for running tests on remote agents
Before you configure a test to run on a remote agent, you must read the considerations you must take into account.

Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in Rational® Test Automation Server. You can find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- Prerequisites to running tests
  Before you can configure and run a test in a project on Rational® Test Automation Server, you must read the information about the different tests. You might want to add a remote static agent or a remote Docker host to the project as an alternate location to run the tests.
- Agents overview
  You can find information about the agents that you must install on remote computers and configure the agents with the offline user token so that the agents register with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. After the agents are registered, you can add them to your projects and then select them as locations to run tests.
  - Test run considerations for running tests on remote agents
    Before you configure a test to run on a remote agent, you must read the considerations you must take into account.
  - Adding an agent
    If you have performance tests that distribute workload across different workstations or Accelerated Functional Testing (AFT) Suites that need to run on different platforms and browsers, you can add IBM® Rational® Performance Tester Agents to your projects to run tests on remote workstations.
- Managing Docker hosts
  You can set up dedicated external Docker hosts to run large tests or run tests remotely to free up the dependency of running tests on the internal Docker host of IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
- Test run configurations
  You can configure and run tests in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server after you add the test resources to your project.
- Management of running tests
  Find information about the tasks that you can perform on a test that you configured for a run either while it runs or after it completes the run.
- Management of virtualized services
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on and manage the virtualized services that run on Rational® Test Automation Server. You can start or stop the stubs connected to Rational Test Automation Server. You can view the stub usage statistics and the routing rules configured for the stubs, agents, or proxies that are connected to Rational Test Automation Server.
- Test results
  After the tests or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and reports in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics. You can also re-execute tests and schedules from the Result page with the same commit id.
- Resource Monitoring service
  When you apply load to a system under test, the amount of resources consumed by your system is increasing. If the capacity of the resources does not match the load, you can see performance issues in the results. The Resource Monitoring service in Rational® Test Automation Server helps you monitoring the resources of a system and establish the performance metrics of the system. Thus, you can observe the health of these resources while a schedule is running.
- Integrating with other applications
  You can integrate certain applications with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to run tests and view the test results.
- Managing access to the server
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.

Test run considerations for running tests on remote agents

Before you configure a test to run on a remote agent, you must read the considerations you must take into account.

You can run the following tests on a remote agent:

AFT Suite
Compound Tests that contains performance tests
Compound Tests that contains Web UI tests
Compound Tests that contains traditional HTML tests
Rate Schedule
VU Schedule

When you plan to run any of the tests on a remote agent from a project on Rational® Test Automation Server, you must complete the following tasks:

Install the agent V10.0.2 or later.
Start the command prompt to run suites or tests that contain Web UI tests on the agent by using the Run as Administrator option, and then start the agent by running the command, majordomo.bat.
Configure the agent with your offline user token to connect to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. The agent can be connected to both the server and desktop clients.

Before you add the tests to the remote repository, ensure that you have completed the following tasks:

Associated the agents with the performance schedule in Rational® Performance Tester.
Specified the host name of the remote workstation in the AFT XML file.

You must add the remote agents to your project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. See Adding an agent to the project for running tests.