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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 configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also 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.
Configuration of a change management system
When you use any application to create and track defects (bugs), issues, or other work items, you can configure the application as a change management system on Rational® Test Automation Server. You can then create defects (bugs), issues, or other work items without the need to open your application.
Configuration of Jira as a change management system
You can integrate Rational® Test Automation Server with Jira to manage and create defects after the test run is complete.
Generating public and consumer keys
You must first generate a public key and a consumer key for your project that is available on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to configure Jira.

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 configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also 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.
- System modeling
  In this topic, you can find information about using the system model feature. You can also find the tasks that you can perform to create a system model. You must configure a repository to save the system model that you created for the application under test.
- 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.
- Management of agents
  You can find information about managing the agents that you must install on remote computers and configure the agents to 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.
- Management of Docker hosts
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Docker hosts. After you set up a remote Docker host, you can register the Docker host with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. You must add the registered remote Docker host to your project before you can run tests on the remote Docker host location.
- Test run configurations
  You can configure and run tests in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server after you add the test resources to your project in your team space.
- 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 virtual services that are connected to Rational Test Automation Server. You can view the routing rules and usage statistics of virtualized services, agents, or intercepts 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.
- Configuration of a change management system
  When you use any application to create and track defects (bugs), issues, or other work items, you can configure the application as a change management system on Rational® Test Automation Server. You can then create defects (bugs), issues, or other work items without the need to open your application.
  - Configuration of Jira as a change management system
    You can integrate Rational® Test Automation Server with Jira to manage and create defects after the test run is complete.
    - Task flow for integrating Jira
      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.
    - Generating public and consumer keys
      You must first generate a public key and a consumer key for your project that is available on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to configure Jira.
    - Configuring the Jira server
      After the administrator of the Jira server sets up the application link in Jira by using both the public and consumer keys, you can configure the Jira server for your project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server where the tests are available.
    - Creating Jira defects
      You can create a Jira defect for a test available in your project and track the defect from IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server 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.

Generating public and consumer keys

You must first generate a public key and a consumer key for your project that is available on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to configure Jira.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

You must have installed Jira on your computer. For more information about installing Jira, refer to Installing Jira software.
You must be able to access the Jira server from Rational® Test Automation Server.

About this task

After you add the URL of the Jira server to your project, you can generate both the public key and the consumer key from Rational® Test Automation Server. You can then share both the keys with the administrator of Jira server.

Procedure

Log in to Rational® Test Automation Server, if you are not already logged in.
Open your project.
Expand Configure, and then click Project.
Click the Change Management System tab, and then click New System.
The Configure Change Management System page is displayed.
Enter the URL of Jira server in the Change Management System link field, and then click Add.
A public key and a consumer key are generated and displayed on the Configure Tracking System page.

Results

You have successfully generated both the public and consumer keys.

What to do next

You can then click Copy to copy both the keys and save the keys in your local file. You can then share both the keys with the administrator of the Jira server to setup an application link in Jira.

The administrator of the Jira server then sets up the application link in Jira by using both the keys that you shared. After the application link set up is complete, you can then configure the Jira server for your project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. See Configuring the Jira server.