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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.
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.
Integration with Jenkins
You can use the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server plugin to integrate Rational Test Automation Server with Jenkins. After you complete the integration, you can run tests assets that are available in a project of Rational Test Automation Server from a Jenkins 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 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.
- 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.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous development of your application, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, in Azure DevOps pipelines by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension.
  - Integration with IBM Engineering Test Management
    As a Project Owner, you can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management as a quality management solution with IBM Rational® Test Automation Server. You can run test assets that are available in a project from Engineering Test Management.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server plugin to integrate Rational Test Automation Server with Jenkins. After you complete the integration, you can run tests assets that are available in a project of Rational Test Automation Server from a Jenkins server.
    - Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins
      You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project or the Pipeline project.
    - Installing the Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins Plugin
      You must install the Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin on the Jenkins server before you can use the plugin for running tests that are available in your Rational Test Automation Server project on the Jenkins server.
    - Using a custom trust store
      You must use a custom trust store in the Jenkins build to establish a trusted and secure connection between the Jenkins server and Rational® Test Automation Server.
    - Configuring the Freestyle project
      You must configure a Freestyle project to add a build step, and then run tests that are available in your Rational® Test Automation Server project from Jenkins.
    - Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins
      You must create a pipeline script to run test assets that are available in the Rational® Test Automation Server project from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
    - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the sample script
      You can configure a Pipeline project directly from the Jenkins UI by using the sample pipeline scripts to run test assets from Jenkins.
    - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the script from SCM
      You can configure the Pipeline project to use the pipeline script from the Source Code Management (SCM), and then run test assets that are available in the Rational® Test Automation Server project from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
    - Running tests from Jenkins
      You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.
  - Integration with UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can integrate IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run test assets as a Process from UrbanCode Deploy.
- 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.

Integration with Jenkins

You can use the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server plugin to integrate Rational® Test Automation Server with Jenkins. After you complete the integration, you can run tests assets that are available in a project of Rational® Test Automation Server from a Jenkins server.

You must have installed Jenkins on your computer to install the Rational® Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin. You can run the following command to start the Jenkins server to support UTF-8 character sets:

java -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar jenkins.war

You can use either the Jenkins Freestyle project or the Pipeline project to run test assets from Jenkins. With Freestyle project, you can create build step from the Jenkins UI to run the test assets. Whereas the Pipeline project uses a simple text scripts based on the Groovy programming language. You can define pipeline scripts during the configuration of the Pipeline project by using any of the following methods:

Pipeline script: In this method, you can directly enter a script in the field provided within the Jenkins UI or you can select a sample Pipeline script from the drop-down list.
Pipeline script from SCM: In this method, you can create a script with a Groovy editor and then commit the script file into the Git repository.

For more information about the Jenkins Pipeline, refer to the Jenkins documentation.

Refer to the following topics to learn more about integrating Jenkins with Rational® Test Automation Server.