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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.
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.
Considerations for using Jaeger traces in reports
Before you can use Jaeger to report the test results in the supported tests, you must read the considerations that 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.
  - Test run considerations for AFT Suites
    Before you configure an AFT Suite run, you must read the considerations you must take into account.
  - Test run considerations for API Suites
    Before you configure an API Suite run, you must read the considerations you must take into account.
  - Test run considerations for schedules
    Before you configure a Rate Schedule or VU Schedule run, you must read the considerations that you must take into account.
  - Considerations for using Jaeger traces in reports
    Before you can use Jaeger to report the test results in the supported tests, you must read the considerations that you must take into account.
- 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.
- 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.

Considerations for using Jaeger traces in reports

Before you can use Jaeger to report the test results in the supported tests, you must read the considerations that you must take into account.

When you want to enable Suites, Tests, or Schedules that are run from Rational® Test Automation Server to use Jaeger traces for reporting the test results, you must have completed the following tasks:

Installed Jaeger at the time of installation of the server software. See Prerequisites for installing the server software on Red Hat OpenShift or Prerequisites for installing the server software on Ubuntu.
Verified that Jeager is enabled and working.

After you install and verify that Jaeger is enabled, and when you want Jaeger to report the test results for the tests that you configure for a run, you must perform the following steps:

Click Advanced.
Enter -history jaeger in the Program Arguments field.