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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.
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.
Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins
You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project.

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.
- 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 flows for running test assets from Jenkins
      You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project.
    - 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.
    - Configuring the Freestyle project
      You must configure a Freestyle project to add a build step, and then run tests that are available in your Rational® Test Automation Server project from Jenkins.
    - 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.

Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins

You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project.

The following table lists the task flows for running test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project:

Tasks	More information
Install the Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin.	Installing the Rational Test Automation Server Jenkins Plugin
Import the CA certificate to your custom trust store.	Using a custom trust store
Configure the Freestyle project.	Configuring the Freestyle project
Run Rational® Test Automation Server test assets on Jenkins.	Running IBM Rational Test Automation Server tests on the Jenkins server