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Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
Test assets and a server project
Rational® Test Automation Server projects manage access to your test assets, which are stored in a Git repository. Projects are either public by default or private. Private projects are not discoverable by other users. You can either add your own project or you can request to be a member of another public project.
Archiving or unarchiving server projects
You can archive a project when that project is no longer needed but you want to retain it for future reference. If you do want to use an archived project, you can unarchive it.

Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Test assets and a server project
  Rational® Test Automation Server projects manage access to your test assets, which are stored in a Git repository. Projects are either public by default or private. Private projects are not discoverable by other users. You can either add your own project or you can request to be a member of another public project.
  - Repository considerations for a server project
    To collaborate with other project stakeholders, you can open test assets from a local clone of the Git repository, pull project test assets from a Git repository, and push changes made to your local test assets to a Git repository. Before you add a project and add a repository to that project, you must consider some information about repositories.
  - Adding details to a server project
    The first step is to add a server project and provide some details about it.
  - Adding repositories to a server project
    You can add repositories to a server project to access the test assets available in the respective repository.
  - Secrets configuration
    If you are working with an API suite and the project test asset contains environment variables that are required for the test runs, you must configure the environment variables as secrets in a secrets collection by using the Secrets tab. Configuring secrets enable the API suite to run correctly on Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Adding users to a server project
    You can add users to your server project so they can access your test assets.
  - Becoming a project member
    You might want to request to be a member of another project. New users without any projects might also want to be a member of an existing project.
  - Managing access to server projects
    You might want to add or remove a project member role from your project.
  - Archiving or unarchiving server projects
    You can archive a project when that project is no longer needed but you want to retain it for future reference. If you do want to use an archived project, you can unarchive it.
  - Deleting server projects
    You might want to delete a project when the project is no longer needed, and you want to free up disk space.
  - Project overview
    After you configure a project with one or more Git repositories and run some test assets, you can view statistics about those test assets.
- Working with Git repositories
  You can add another repository in addition to the existing repositories in your project or edit the repository settings, by updating the credentials, or by removing references to the repository.
- Protecting API test assets by using secrets
  Secrets are key-value pairs that are created for your project in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server under a secrets collection. You can create secrets collections for your project that enable you or members in your project to use secrets at test runtime either in Rational Test Automation Server or in desktop clients.
- Managing an encrypted dataset
  You can use encrypted datasets to limit access to confidential information such as account number or passwords. You can arrange data by an appropriate category so that project members can use datasets more effectively in certain tests and protect them.
- Managing notifications
  IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server provides a feature to display notifications for different events within the user interface (UI) of Rational Test Automation Server. You can configure an SMTP server on Rational Test Automation Server when you want Rational Test Automation Server to send out notifications about the different events as emails to the subscribed users.

Archiving or unarchiving server projects

You can archive a project when that project is no longer needed but you want to retain it for future reference. If you do want to use an archived project, you can unarchive it.

About this task

As a project owner,you can archive projects that are inactive. Archived projects are not visible to users or project members, but owners can show or hide their archived projects. Archived projects can be unarchived.

Note:

When you migrate projects from the previous version of Rational® Test Automation Server to V10.1.0, the project Owner must log in to Rational® Test Automation Server to initiate the migration of all the repositories in that project, as a result, other members can access the test assets in that project.

On migration of an archived project, the project Owner must log in to Rational® Test Automation Server and then navigate to the Configure > Project > Repositories tab to migrate the configured repositories in the archived project.

Procedure

Archive a project by following these steps:
1. Open the project that you want to archive.
2. From the project details, archive the project.
3. Confirm that you want to archive the project when prompted. If you proceed, the project is archived and is hidden in your project list. To show or hide the archive projects, select the appropriate option by using the Menu icon from the menu bar.
  
  When visible, the archived project shows as archived in the list of My Projects.
  
  Note: The option to configure a project continues to display after you archive a project.
Unarchive a project by following these steps:
1. Open an archived project and unarchive it.
2. Confirm that you want to unarchive the project when prompted. If you proceed, the project is unarchived and is shown in your project list.