Release notes for IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server

This document includes information about What’s new, installation and upgrade instructions, known issues, and contact information of IBM Customer Support.

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Product description

You can find the description of IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.

Rational® Test Automation Server is a server that includes capabilities such as project and role-based security, Docker-based distribution and installation, and running of test cases. For more information about the server, see IBM Rational Test Automation Server overview.

What's new

You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational® Test Automation Server.

The following sections list the new features, enhancements or other changes made in this release.
  • Support to add multiple repositories simultaneously

    Previously, you were able to add individual Git repositories one at a time to your project on Rational® Test Automation Server.

    Now, you can add multiple repositories simultaneously that are contained in the same repository domain.

    See Adding repositories to a server project.

  • Support to configure and run individual test assets

    Previously,you were able to configure and run Suites, Compound Tests, or Schedules on Rational® Test Automation Server. Now, you can configure and run individual test assets such as an API test, a Functional test, or Performance test.

    See Test run configurations.

  • Enhanced Jenkins plugins to run tests from a Jenkins pipeline project

    The Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins plugins are enhanced so that you can now run tests as a job in a Jenkins Pipeline project.

  • Configuring additional Jira fields

    Jira server administrator can now configure additional fields as Required fields in the project on the Jira server to be displayed in the Raise defect in Jira window while creating a defect from Rational® Test Automation Server.

    See Creating Jira defects.

  • Collecting and viewing resource monitoring usage data

    You can create queries to retrieve monitoring usage data that is collected for a time period during a test run.

    See Collecting and viewing resource monitoring usage data, Configuring a test, Viewing resource monitoring usage data, and Creating queries for resource monitoring usage data.

  • Viewing test logs

    When a test run is complete, a test log report is generated for the tests which are configured to collect test logs data. The test log contains details about the events in the tests and their properties. See Test log viewer.

  • Querying test log data

    You can create queries to view test log data for all the test results in a project or for one particular result.

    See Test log queries and Configuring and running log queries.

Deprecated capabilities

The following capabilities are deprecated. IBM will no longer invest in enhancing these capabilities and is planning to remove them in a future release. If you have any concerns, contact either an IBM representative or your IBM Client Support team for this program:
  • No capabilities were deprecated in this release.

Removed capabilities

The following capabilities that were announced in previous releases as deprecated are removed in this release:

  • No capabilities were removed in this release.

Installing and upgrading

You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for Rational® Test Automation Server.

Installing Rational® Test Automation Server

For instructions about installing the software, see Installation of the server software.

Upgrading of Rational® Test Automation Server

For instructions about upgrading the software, see Server software upgrade methods.

Known issues

You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of Rational® Test Automation Server.

Table 1. Release documents - Fix list and known issues
Product Download document Knowledge Base
Rational® Test Automation Server Release document Knowledge articles

Known problems are documented in the download document for each product and in the form of individual technotes in the Support Knowledge Base:

The knowledge base is continually updated as problems are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

Contacting IBM Rational Software Support

You can find information about Contacting IBM Rational Software Support.

  • For contact information and guidelines or reference materials that you might need when you require support, read the IBM Support Guide.

  • For personalized support that includes notifications of significant upgrades, subscribe to Product notification.

  • Before you contact IBM Rational Software Support, you must gather the background information that you might need to describe your problem. When you describe a problem to an IBM software support specialist, be as specific as possible and include all relevant background information so that the specialist can help you solve the problem efficiently. To save time, know the answers to these questions:
    • What software versions were you running when the problem occurred?
    • Do you have logs, traces, or messages that are related to the problem?
    • Can you reproduce the problem? If so, what steps do you take to reproduce it?
    • Is there a workaround for the problem? If so, be prepared to describe the workaround.