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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.
Managing access to the server
Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect 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.
- 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.

Managing access to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server

Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.

You can configure the desktop clients and third-party integrations to access Rational® Test Automation Server by using the offline user tokens created from the server.

Offline user tokens are used in the following cases:

To retrieve secrets configured on the server to be used in certain tests in Rational® Integration Tester
To enable publishing of test results and reports from desktop clients to Rational® Test Automation Server
To enable the Resource Monitoring Service in Rational® Performance Tester to monitor a data source during a run on Rational® Test Automation Server
To enable third-party integrations.

About this task

From Rational® Test Automation Server, you can create an offline user token, copy it, and then use that token in each of the desktop clients and third-party integrations.

You can also delete all the tokens, when you no longer need access or you want to prevent access to the server.

Procedure

Creating a token

Follow these steps:

Click the User icon from the menu bar and select Create Token.

The Create Offline User Token dialog box is displayed.

Note: This token is not accessible after you copy it as the dialog box closes.
Copy the token and paste it into a private location for ongoing reference.

The dialog box closes.

Paste the token into the desktop client UI or the third-party integrations UI where this token is required.

See the following table for a list of where you can use the tokens and where you can find more information.

Table 1. Using the offline user tokens to access Rational® Test Automation Server
Use the offline user token in the following places	More information
Rational® Integration Tester	See Rational® Integration Tester and Rational® Test Automation Server.
Rational® Performance Tester	See Publishing test results to the server. See Enablement of Resource Monitoring services for a schedule.
Rational® Functional Tester	See Publishing test results to the server.
Third-party integrations	See Integrating with other applications.

Deleting tokens

Follow these steps:
1. Click the User icon from the menu bar and select Delete Tokens.
  
  The Delete All Offline User Tokens dialog box is displayed.
2. Inform the desktop client users that the tokens were deleted. Fix any test automation scripts that used tokens.