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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.
Team space management
You might want to become a team space member, add members to your team space, change a user role in a team space, modify the team space, or delete a team space.
Becoming a team space member
After logging into IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, the licensed users must be a member of any team space to perform test activities in a project. As a licensed user, if you are not assigned the role of a member in any team space, then you can request the Team Space Ownerto become a member of any existing team space.

Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
- Team space management
  You might want to become a team space member, add members to your team space, change a user role in a team space, modify the team space, or delete a team space.
  - Viewing team spaces
    After you log in to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server for the first time, you can view all the existing team spaces on the Team Space Dashboard page.
  - Adding members to a team space
    When you create a team space to manage projects, you must add users to your team space so that they can create and access the projects.
  - Modifying the configuration of a team space
    After you create a team space, if you want to modify the details of the team space, add a repository to your team space, or delete a team space, then you can perform these tasks on the Team Space Configuration page.
  - Viewing the configuration of a team space
    You can view the configuration of a team space as a member of any team space. You can view the configuration details on the Team Space Configuration page.
  - Becoming a team space member
    After logging into IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, the licensed users must be a member of any team space to perform test activities in a project. As a licensed user, if you are not assigned the role of a member in any team space, then you can request the Team Space Ownerto become a member of any existing team space.
  - Managing members and their roles in a team space
    After you assign roles to the members of a team space, as a Team Space Owner, you might want to remove a member from the team space or reassign the role to the existing members of your team space.
  - Deleting a team space
    You might want to delete a team space when it is no longer needed.
- 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 maintained in a team space. 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.
- Managing repositories
  After you create a project in Rational® Test Automation Server, you can add repositories that contain test assets and resources to the project. You can also change the repository details, update the user credentials of a repository, delete a repository, create a webhook for the configured 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.

Becoming a team space member

After logging into IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, the licensed users must be a member of any team space to perform test activities in a project. As a licensed user, if you are not assigned the role of a member in any team space, then you can request the Team Space Ownerto become a member of any existing team space.

Before you begin

You must be a licensed user.

About this task

If you want to become a member of a Restrictive team space, then only the owner of that team space can grant you the role of a member of a team space. If you request to become a member of a Permissive team space, then you automatically become a member of that team space.

Note: The server administrator can join any team space automatically without any approval and is assigned with a default role of Team Space Owner.

Procedure

Log in to Rational® Test Automation Server.
The Projects page of the initial team space is displayed.
Click Dashboard.
The Team Space Dashboard page is displayed.
Select the team space that you want to join from the list of other team spaces in the Team Space Dashboard.

Note:
You can view only the public type of Restrictive team spaces and the Permissive team spaces.
Click the Key icon of the selected team space.
Confirm your request when prompted.
If you agree, then the Team Space Owner sees a notification about the request.

After opening the notification, the Team Space Owner can view the user who is requesting the access and can accept or decline the request. If the Team Space Owner accepts your request, you are added and assigned a Member role.
Notes:
- You can become a member of any team space only when the license of the selected team space is configured.
- If you are a server administrator, then the Team Space Owner role is the default role assigned.
- If you are a licensed user, then the Member role is the default role assigned and is restricted to specific actions.
You can then see the team space under My Team Spaces on the Team Space Dashboard page.

You might want to follow up with the Team Space Owner if your request is pending for some time.

Results

You have become a member of another team space.

What to do next

You can view the actions that you can perform based on your assigned role. See Adding members to a team space.