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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.
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.
Test results and reports overview
Rational® Test Automation Server is a single location for hosting the results and reports of all tests run on different desktop clients and for tests run from the server.
Viewing trending reports
When the performance test runs are complete, you can view the trend of response time for an application over a period of time in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server from trending reports. In addition to the response time, you can view the trend for the loops, transactions, and performance requirements for the application.

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.
  - Test results and reports overview
    Rational® Test Automation Server is a single location for hosting the results and reports of all tests run on different desktop clients and for tests run from the server.
    - Creating search queries to filter test results
      To filter the test results list, you can create a search query that you apply as a filter in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
    - Comparing test reports
      After you run performance tests, you can analyze the difference between two or multiple test results in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. For example, you can compare the performance of an application at different time slots or different milestone builds between two test results.
    - Viewing trending reports
      When the performance test runs are complete, you can view the trend of response time for an application over a period of time in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server from trending reports. In addition to the response time, you can view the trend for the loops, transactions, and performance requirements for the application.
    - Re-executing tests from results
      You can re-execute a test, a schedule, a collection of tests or schedules from IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server if you want to keep 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.
- Managing access to the server
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.

Viewing trending reports

When the performance test runs are complete, you can view the trend of response time for an application over a period of time in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server from trending reports. In addition to the response time, you can view the trend for the loops, transactions, and performance requirements for the application.

About this task

The trending reports are available for performance tests only.

Procedure

Select results in the first column in the Results page.
Click the icon to view the trending reports.

Note: When comparing multiple runs, you cannot compare multiple time-ranges or stages.

Results

You can analyze the trend information for multiple test results in the same report from a browser window.