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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.
Integrating with other applications
You can integrate certain applications with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
Integration with Jenkins
When you integrate IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server with Jenkins, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on Rational Test Automation Server from a Jenkins server by using the Rational Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin.

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 default cluster 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.
- Integration with Jira as a defect management system
  You can integrate Jira as a defect management system with your project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to create defects for the tests that are available in the project after the test run is complete.
- Integrating with other applications
  You can integrate certain applications with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous development of your application, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, in Azure DevOps pipelines by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    When you integrate IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server with Jenkins, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on Rational Test Automation Server from a Jenkins server by using the Rational Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin.
    - Task flow for integrating Jenkins
      The table shows the task flow for integrating IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server with Jenkins by using the Rational Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin. You must perform these tasks in sequence as listed in the following table. The table also provides you the links to the information about the tasks.
    - Installing the Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins Plugin
      You must install the latest version of the Rational® Test Automation Server plugin on the Jenkins server before you can use the plugin for running tests that are available in your IBM® Rational Test Automation Server project on the Jenkins server.
    - Using a custom trust store
      You can use a custom trust store in the Jenkins build step of a Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin to establish a trusted and secure connection between the Jenkins server and Rational Test Automation Server.
    - Running tests on the Jenkins server
      After you install the Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin on the Jenkins server, you can run tests that are available in your IBM® Rational Test Automation Server project on the Jenkins server.
  - Integration with UrbanCode Deploy
    When you use UrbanCode™ Deploy (UCD) for automating application deployments of your application, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server from UCD by using the IBM Rational Test Automation Server UCD plugin.
- Managing access to the server
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.

Integration with Jenkins

When you integrate IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server with Jenkins, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on Rational® Test Automation Server from a Jenkins server by using the Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin.

Prerequisites

You must have installed Jenkins on your computer. For more information about installing Jenkins, refer to Installing Jenkins.

You can then run the following command to start the Jenkins server to support UTF-8 character sets:

java -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar jenkins.war

Overview

You can use the Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin to integrate Rational® Test Automation Server with Jenkins.

You must have created the tests in the desktop clients and committed the test assets and test resources to a remote repository. The remote repository must be added to the project.

Depending on the type of tests you want to perform on your application, you must have created any or all of the following types of tests in the desktop clients for the application you are testing:


Type of test	Desktop client
Accelerated Functional Testing suites Compound tests	IBM® Rational® Functional Tester
Test Suite	IBM® Rational® Integration Tester
Compound tests VU Schedule Rate Schedule	IBM® Rational® Performance Tester

You can now follow the tasks listed in the task flow table to integrate Rational® Test Automation Server with Jenkins. See Task flow for integrating Jenkins.