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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 Atlassian Jira as a change management system
You can use Atlassian Jira as a change management system in Rational® Test Automation Server to create issues in the Jira project for the tests that ran in Rational Test Automation Server. Links to the Jira issues are displayed on the Results page in Rational Test Automation Server, and you can then view and track the Jira issues in Jira.

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 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.
  - Configuration of Atlassian Jira as a change management system
    You can use Atlassian Jira as a change management system in Rational® Test Automation Server to create issues in the Jira project for the tests that ran in Rational Test Automation Server. Links to the Jira issues are displayed on the Results page in Rational Test Automation Server, and you can then view and track the Jira issues in Jira.
    - Adding a Jira Software server URL
      You must first add the URL of the server on which you have installed Jira Software on the Integration page of Rational® Test Automation Server. You must copy the API keys that are generated by Rational Test Automation Server to be used to authenticate Rational Test Automation Server as the application to connect in Jira.
    - 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 as a change management system
      You must configure the Jira server as a change management system in your project in Rational® Test Automation Server before you can create issues in the Jira project for the tests that ran.
    - Creating Jira issues for tests that ran
      You can create Jira issues for the tests that ran in . The issues are created in the project in Jira that you configured in .
    - 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.
- 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.

Configuration of Atlassian Jira as a change management system

You can use Atlassian Jira as a change management system in Rational® Test Automation Server to create issues in the Jira project for the tests that ran in Rational® Test Automation Server. Links to the Jira issues are displayed on the Results page in Rational® Test Automation Server, and you can then view and track the Jira issues in Jira.

Prerequisites

Before you configure Jira as a change management system on Rational® Test Automation Server, you must have completed the following tasks:

Installed Jira Software. See Supported installations.
Ensured that you obtained the access and authentication details to Jira from the Jira administrator.
Ensured that you are assigned a role as a Project Owner or Tester in the project. See Managing access to server projects.
Created a project in your team space in Rational® Test Automation Server. See Adding a project.

Supported installations

The following types of Jira Software installations are supported that can be configured as a change management system on Rational® Test Automation Server:

On-premise Jira Software installations.
On-cloud Jira Software installations.

Task flow

You can follow the tasks that are listed in the following table when you want to use Jira as a change management system on Rational® Test Automation Server. The table also provides you the links to the information about the tasks.


Task	Go to...
Add a Jira Software server URL on the Integration page of Rational® Test Automation Server, and then generate the API keys that authenticate Rational® Test Automation Server as an application in Jira.	Adding a Jira Software server URL
Set up an application link for Rational® Test Automation Server in the Jira server.	Setting up an application link in the Jira server
Configure the Jira server as a change management system on Rational® Test Automation Server.	Configuring the Jira server as a change management system
Create defects or issues for tests that ran on Rational® Test Automation Server.	Creating Jira issues for tests that ran

You can manage the Jira server settings that you configured in Rational® Test Automation Server. You can edit the saved configuration or you can delete the configuration. For more information, see Managing the Jira server configuration.