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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 agents
You can find information about managing performance agents that you install on remote computers and then configure the remote 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 performance agents
You can manage the performance agents that you want to use as locations to run tests from IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. When you install the agents by using your offline user token, the agents are registered with the team space in IBM Rational Test Automation Server. You can view the registered agents before you add them to your projects. You can then select them as locations to run tests.
Test run considerations for running tests on remote performance agents
Before you configure a test to run on a remote performance agent from IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must read the considerations that you must take into account.

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 performance agents that you install on remote computers and then configure the remote 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 performance agents
    You can manage the performance agents that you want to use as locations to run tests from IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. When you install the agents by using your offline user token, the agents are registered with the team space in IBM Rational Test Automation Server. You can view the registered agents before you add them to your projects. You can then select them as locations to run tests.
    - Test run considerations for running tests on remote performance agents
      Before you configure a test to run on a remote performance agent from IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must read the considerations that you must take into account.
    - Viewing performance agents that are registered with Rational® Test Automation Server
      After you install the remote performance agents and configure them with your offline user token, the performance agents register with Rational® Test Automation Server and you can view the registered performance agents on the Agents and Intercepts page.
    - Adding a performance agent to a project
      If you have performance tests that distribute workload across different workstations or Accelerated Functional Testing (AFT) Suites that need to run on different platforms and browsers, you can add IBM® Rational® Performance Tester Agents to your projects to run tests on remote workstations.
    - Working with agent capabilities
      When you installed static agents V10.1.2 or later, and added them to your project, you can view capabilities of the agents from the Infrastructure page. When you installed static agents V10.2.0 or later, you can add, view, edit, or delete properties and capabilities of agents from the User Defined panel of that agent.
- 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.
- Management of remote Kubernetes clusters
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Kubernetes clusters. After you set up a remote Kubernetes cluster, you can register the external cluster with a team space on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. You must then add the remote cluster to a project before you run test assets or resources on the remote Kubernetes cluster.
- 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.
- Configuration of a scan of an application code
  You can use Rational® Test Automation Server to scan your application code for security vulnerabilities similar to using the HCL AppScan CodeSweep plugin to scan code in Visual Studio.
- 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.
- 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.
- Working with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server REST services
  When you want to use the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server REST APIs in your test automation scripts, you can view the REST APIs that are exposed by IBM Rational Test Automation Server. You can also run the APIs from within your project in IBM Rational Test Automation Server.

Test run considerations for running tests on remote performance agents

Before you configure a test to run on a remote performance agent from IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you must read the considerations that you must take into account.

Supported tests

You can run the following tests that are supported to be run on a remote performance agent:

AFT Suite
Compound Tests that contains performance tests
Compound Tests that contains Web UI tests
Compound Tests that contains traditional HTML tests
Rate Schedule
VU Schedule

Prerequisite tasks

Before you can run any of the supported tests on a remote performance agent from a project on Rational® Test Automation Server, you must have completed the following tasks:

Installed the IBM® Rational® Performance Tester agent on the remote computer. See Management of performance agents.
Configured the agent with your offline user token so that the agent can connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.
Added the remote agents to your project on Rational® Test Automation Server. See Adding a performance agent to a project.

Note: If you want to run an AFT Suite (that contains Web UI tests) on an agent, you must start the agent as a non-admin user so that certain browsers that are configured start correctly during the test run time.

Before you add the tests to the remote repository, you must have completed the following tasks:

Associated the agents with the performance schedule in Rational® Performance Tester.
Specified the host name of the remote workstation in the AFT XML file.

You can continue to configure a run for any of the following supported test types: