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Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Integration Tester Reference
This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
Working in non-GUI mode
Many test actions can be completed in non-GUI mode by using the command line, Ant, or REST interfaces.
Managing stubs
You can manage stubs by using the command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.

Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Integration Tester Reference
  This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
  - Integration Tester Guide
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
  - Extending Rational® Integration Tester functionality by using custom functions
    You can add more calculations and operations to tests by using the Rational® Integration Tester custom function class. Rational Integration Tester custom function is a Java™ class that extends the com.ghc.ghTester.expressions function.
  - Working in non-GUI mode
    Many test actions can be completed in non-GUI mode by using the command line, Ant, or REST interfaces.
    - Command-line interfaces
      Rational® Integration Tester command-line client is available in Rational Integration Tester 8.0.1 or later.
    - Ant tasks
      Support for the environment, scenario and stub Ant tasks is supplied with Rational® Test Control Panel.
    - REST services
      Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. When used in conjunction with IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel, HTTP methods (such as GET and POST) are mapped to actions on domains, environments, scenarios, stubs and other resource types.
    - Running tests
      Use Rational® Integration Tester to run tests with command-line and Ant APIs.
    - Managing test results
      Use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to manage test results with command-line APIs.
    - Managing domains
      You can create, list, update, and delete domains with the Rational® Test Control Panel REST API.
    - Managing environments
      Locking a Rational® Test Control Panel environment prevents other users from changing the state of that environment, for example, starting or stopping stubs.
    - Managing scenarios
      Use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to manage scenarios with command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
    - Managing stubs
      You can manage stubs by using the command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
      - Selecting stubs to be published
        You can use various options to select stubs to be published.
      - Selecting a stub to start or stop
        You can use various options to select a stub to start or stop.
      - Publish stubs by using the command line
        You can publish a stub to IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel, Dockerfile and build context, or Kubernetes by using the Rational Integration Tester command line.
      - Start a stub by using the command line
        You can start a stub by using the Rational® Integration Tester command line.
      - Stop a stub by using the command line
        You can stop all instances of a stub by using the Rational® Integration Tester command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
      - Publish stubs by using an Ant task
        You can publish stubs by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant task, the Dockerfile and build context Ant task or the Kubernetes Ant task.
      - Start a stub by using an Ant task
        You can start a stub by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant tasks.
      - Stop a stub by using an Ant task
        You can stop a stub by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant tasks.
      - REST services
        Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. When used in conjunction with IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel, HTTP methods (such as GET and POST) are mapped to actions on domains, environments, scenarios, stubs and other resource types.
- Integration Tester Guide (Service Virtualization)
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.

Managing stubs

You can manage stubs by using the command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.

Note: Starting from version 10.0.0, you can publish, start, or stop the managed stubs available in the Environments dashboard in Rational® Test Control Panel by using the command line. For more information about managed stubs, see Server-based stubs.

You can perform operations on the same managed stub instances from either the GUI or the command line. For example, you can publish a stub instance from the command line, update its configuration from the GUI, and start the stub from the command line. You can perform operations in any other combination that you want.