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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.
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 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.
- 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.
  - Prerequisites for running stubs
    You can find information about the prerequisite tasks that you must complete before you can run stubs on Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Starting a stub
    When you have stubs in the API test assets, you can start the stubs contained in the API test assets from the Execution page in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Running an API Suite that references local stubs
    When you want to run an API Suite that references local stubs, you can use the HTTP proxy registered with Rational® Test Automation Server to run the local stubs. The API Suite also contains tests that run on the stubs. You must configure the HTTP transport to use the HTTP proxy in the project and commit the project to the remote repository.
  - Viewing routing rules
    When stubs are created to run on agents or proxies, or have routing rules defined, and you run such stubs on Rational® Test Automation Server, you can view the agents, proxies, or the routing rules from the Routing Rules page.
  - Viewing stub usage statistics
    After you start stubs that are connected to Rational® Test Automation Server, and then run tests on the stub, you can view the stub usage statistics from the Stub Usage page on Rational Test Automation Server.
  - Stopping a stub
    When you want to stop a stub that is running in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you can stop the running stub from the Progress page. You must stop a running stub after you have completed running tests that are used by the stub.
- 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.

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.

Disclaimer: This release contains access to the virtualized services feature in Rational® Test Automation Server as a Tech Preview. The Tech Preview is intended for you to view the capabilities of virtualized services offered by Rational® Test Automation Server V10.1.1, and to provide your feedback to the product team. You are permitted to use the information only for evaluation purposes and not for use in a production environment. IBM provides the information without obligation of support and "as is" without warranty of any kind.

You must create stubs in Rational® Integration Tester for the following types of services, and then add the stubs to your project on Rational® Test Automation Server before you can run the stubs on Rational® Test Automation Server:

Stubs that utilize the WebSphere® MQ transport.
Stubs that utilize the HTTP transport.
Stubs that virtualize the Istio services.
You can run stubs for the following types of requests received or sent by the Istio service mesh:
- Requests received by services in the Istio service mesh.
- Requests sent from namespaces in the Istio service mesh to external services that are not in the Istio service mesh.

Important: You can run stubs only in the Default Cluster location of Rational® Test Automation Server. You cannot run stubs on a remote Docker host.

After you run the stubs, you can view details of the stub usage from the Stub Usage page on Rational® Test Automation Server.

When stubs are created to run on agents or proxies, or have routing rules defined, and you run such stubs on Rational® Test Automation Server, you can view the agents, proxies or the routing rules from the Routing Rules page on the Rational® Test Automation Server User Interface.

Find information about the following tasks that you can perform on Rational® Test Automation Server: