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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 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.
Using a custom trust store for UCD integration
You can use a custom trust store in the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin file to establish a trusted and secure connection between the UCD server and Rational Test Automation Server.

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.
  - 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.
    - Installing the Rational® Test Automation Server UCD Plugin
      You must install the latest version of the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin to integrate IBM Rational Test Automation Server with UCD and run tests on the UCD server.
    - Using a custom trust store for UCD integration
      You can use a custom trust store in the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin file to establish a trusted and secure connection between the UCD server and Rational Test Automation Server.
    - Creating a component in UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must create a component to include artifacts and processes. The artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions. Whereas the processes define the activities that components can perform.
    - Creating a process in UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must create a process for the component to include step properties for the test that you want to run from UrbanCode™ Deploy.
    - Configuring the process
      You must configure the process that you created for the component to organize the steps in the process, specify the properties of the steps, and connect them.
    - Creating a resource in UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must create a resource to associate agents with components that you created in UrbanCode™ Deploy.
    - Configuring the resource
      You must configure the resource to add an agent and associate the agent with the component.
    - Creating an application in UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must create an application to fetch all the components together that you want to deploy.
    - Configuring the application
      You must configure the application to associate resources with environments and define processes to run test assets.
    - Running tests on the UCD server
      After you install the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin on the UCD server, you can create a process request that contains the test for your application, and then run the test on the UCD server.
- Managing access to the server
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.

Using a custom trust store for UCD integration

You can use a custom trust store in the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin file to establish a trusted and secure connection between the UCD server and Rational® Test Automation Server.

Before you begin

You must have configured the certificate that is used by Rational® Test Automation Server as a trusted CA, and then install Rational® Test Automation Server. See Installation of the server software.

About this task

If the SSL certificate assigned to Rational® Test Automation Server is signed by an internal Certified Authority (CA), then you must download and import the CA certificate to a custom trust store. You can then use the custom trust store in the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server test process step to establish a trusted and secure connection between the UCD server and Rational® Test Automation Server.

Note: If the internal CA certificate is already imported to the default trust store that is used by the UCD server, you need not use a custom trust store.

Procedure

Locate the default trust store file (cacerts file) in your JRE directory from your computer, and then copy the file to a location of your choice on your computer.
Run the following command from the command prompt or terminal to import the CA certificate to your custom trust store:
```
keytool -import -trustcacerts -file <path to the downloaded CA certificate with the file extension> -alias <custom label for the certificate> -keystore <path to the trust store>
```
For example,

keytool -import -trustcacerts -file C:\Users\ca file.crt -alias alias1 -keystore D:\cert\cacerts
Note: The default password of the trust store is changeit. It remains the same for the custom trust store. If you want to change the password, you can run the following command, and then enter the new password:
```
keytool -storepasswd -keystore <path to the trust store>
```
For example, keytool -storepasswd -keystore D:\cert\cacerts

Results

You have successfully imported the downloaded CA certificate to the custom trust store.

What to do next

You can then run the tests that are available in your Rational® Test Automation Server project from the UCD server.