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.

Contents

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 run tests or resources as a GitHub Action

    You can now run tests or resources that are contained in your project on Rational® Test Automation Server as a GitHub Action from a Git repository.

    See Configuration of test runs in a GitHub Actions Workflow.

  • Running Selenium tests on Rational® Test Automation Server

    You can now run Selenium tests that are within a Maven project from Rational® Test Automation Server.

    You must commit the Maven project as a pom.xml to a Git repository. After you add the Git repository to your project on Rational® Test Automation Server, you can configure a run of the Selenium test from the Execution page.

    See Configuring a run of a Selenium test.

  • Running virtual services on API agents from Rational® Test Automation Server

    You can now configure an IBM® Rational® Integration Tester Agent to register with a team space in Rational® Test Automation Server by using the server hostname, team space name, and your offline token. When you start the virtual services, you can select the Rational® Integration Tester agent as the location and not select the Kubernetes cluster.

    See Management of API agents.

  • Support for IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® as a change management system

    You can now create Rational® ClearQuest® work items for the tests that ran on Rational® Test Automation Server, after you configure Rational® ClearQuest® as a change management system on Rational® Test Automation Server.

    See Configuration of Rational ClearQuest as a change management system.

  • Configuring external webhooks on Rational® Test Automation Server

    You can configure the URL of third-party applications such as Teams or Slack, as a webhook on Rational® Test Automation Server when you want to receive push notifications about events that occur on the server.

    You can create templates and select specific events for which you want to receive notification messages in the defined template for those events.

    See Configuration of a webhook.

Deprecated capabilities

You can find information about the capabilities that are deprecated in this release and are planned for a removal in a future release.
Note: You can contact the IBM Support team if you have any concerns.
  • No capabilities were deprecated in this release.

Removed capabilities

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.