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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.
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.
Canceling scheduled test runs
You might want to cancel a scheduled test run or multiple scheduled test runs when you realized that you did not configure all the settings for the runs, want to change a few settings, or do not want those tests to run.

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.
  - Viewing the state of test assets
    After you initiate or schedule a test run on the Execution page, you can view the state of the test assets on the Progress page by clicking the Show in the Progress page icon that is enabled for that test asset on the Execution page. You can view all the states of the test asset from the past hour such as In transition, Running, Scheduled, Completed, or Stopped.
  - Viewing the progress of running test assets
    After you initiate or schedule a test run on the Execution page, you can view the progress of the test assets that are running or scheduled to run, from the Progress page. You can also view the test assets that have completed their run, are stopped or canceled, during the past hour.
  - Checking logs
    To verify how the test ran or to debug test run failure, you can check the Test Log and Execution log.
  - Resetting the configuration settings for a test run
    When you are configuring a test run either as a first-run or when repeating the run, and you do not want to proceed with the settings configured or saved for the test run, you can reset the configuration settings. Resetting the configuration reverts all the settings to their default values for the test run.
  - Stopping test runs
    You might want to stop a test run or multiple tests that are running when you realized that you did not configure all the settings or you want to change a few settings for the test runs.
  - Canceling scheduled test runs
    You might want to cancel a scheduled test run or multiple scheduled test runs when you realized that you did not configure all the settings for the runs, want to change a few settings, or do not want those tests to 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.
- Integrations 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.

Canceling scheduled test runs

You might want to cancel a scheduled test run or multiple scheduled test runs when you realized that you did not configure all the settings for the runs, want to change a few settings, or do not want those tests to run.

Before you begin

You must have scheduled runs for one or multiple test assets from the Execution page.

About this task

You can cancel either one scheduled test or multiple scheduled tests from the Progress page.

Procedure

Go to the Progress page and identify the tests in any of the following ways that you want to cancel:
You can select the tests that satisfy the following conditions:
- The test must be in the Scheduled state.
- The Cancel icon in the Actions column must be enabled for the test.
- The checkbox must be enabled for the test.

Perform the actions in the following table:


If...	Action...
You want to cancel any test run that is scheduled	Perform any of the following actions: Click the Cancel icon in the Actions column of the selected test. Click the checkbox in the row of the selected test, and then click Stop selected. The Cancel scheduled execution dialog is displayed.
You want to stop multiple test runs that are scheduled	Perform any of the following actions: Click the checkbox in the row of the selected tests, and then click Stop selected. Click the Select all checkbox in the header row, and then click Stop selected. Note: All scheduled tests are selected when you click the Select all checkbox. The Cancel scheduled execution dialog is displayed.

Click Yes in the Cancel scheduled execution dialog.
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A notification is displayed that the scheduled test runs are canceled.

Results

You have successfully canceled a scheduled test or multiple scheduled tests. The canceled test runs are displayed on the Progress page with the status as Canceled. The canceled test runs are not displayed on the Results page and are not considered in the count of tests executed that are displayed on the Overview page.

What to do next

You can re-initiate the test run from the Execution page by completing the configurations that you want for the test.