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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.
Setting up an application link in the Jira server
You must set up an application link in the Jira server to establish a connection between the Jira 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 run a test asset in a project on Rational® Test Automation Server, you must read the information about the different tests assets. You can add a remote static agent or Docker host to the project and then select it as an alternate location to run the test assets.
- 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 then 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, Suites, or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the 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
  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. Resource monitoring in Rational® Test Automation Server helps you monitoring the resources of a system and establish the performance metrics and usage data 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.
    - Generating public and consumer keys
      You must generate a public key and a consumer key in a project that is available on Rational® Test Automation Server to configure Jira as a defect management system.
    - Setting up an application link in the Jira server
      You must set up an application link in the Jira server to establish a connection between the Jira server and Rational® Test Automation Server.
    - Configuring the Jira server
      You must configure the Jira server in your project to create a Jira defect from Rational® Test Automation Server.
    - Creating Jira defects
      You can create a Jira defect for the test result from Rational® Test Automation Server when actual test results differ from the expected results.
    - Viewing details of the Jira issues
      After you create Jira issues in Rational® Test Automation Server, you can view and track the details of the Jira issues in Jira.
    - Managing the Jira server configuration
      You can manage the Jira server configuration that you set in Rational® Test Automation Server when you want to modify the project configured in Jira or when you want to delete the existing Jira configuration.
- 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.

Setting up an application link in the Jira server

You must set up an application link in the Jira server to establish a connection between the Jira server and Rational® Test Automation Server.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Been assigned as an administrator of the Jira server.
Generated a public key and consumer key for the project in Rational® Test Automation Server. See Generating public and consumer keys.
Copied the URL of Rational® Test Automation Server.

Procedure

Log in to the Jira server.

Perform the following steps based on the method that you used to host the Jira server:

Methods	Actions
Cloud	Click Settings > Products.
On Premise	Click Settings > Applications

Click Application links from the left side of the menu items.
The Configure Application Links page is displayed.
Enter the URL of Rational® Test Automation Server in the field, and then click Create new link.
Verify the URL on the Configure Application URL window, and then click Continue.
The Link applications dialog box is displayed.
Perform the following steps to provide the information about Rational® Test Automation Server:
1. Enter a name for Rational® Test Automation Server in the Application Name field.
  
  You must provide a unique name to Rational® Test Automation Server. For example, rtas.
2. Select General Application as Application Type from the drop-down list.
3. Select the Create incoming link checkbox to set up a one-way incoming link from Rational® Test Automation Server to the Jira server.
4. Click Continue.
5. Enter the consumer key shared by the user of Rational® Test Automation Server in the Consumer Key field.
6. Enter a name in the Consumer Name field.
  For example, IBM.
7. Enter the public key shared by the user of Rational® Test Automation Server in the Public Key field.
Click Continue.

Results

You have set up the application link on the Jira server.

What to do next

You can configure the Jira server in your project on Rational® Test Automation Server See Configuring the Jira server.