Release Notes
This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
What's new
You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational® Test Virtualization Server and IBM® Rational Integration Tester.
Installing and upgrading
You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for Rational® Test Virtualization Server and Rational Test Control Panel.
Known issues
You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
Rational® Test Virtualization Server overview
Rational® Test Virtualization Server is software that is used for creating, maintaining, publishing, and running message-based stubs and database stubs.
Interactive Guides
The home page contains several interactive guides that walks you, step by step, through some of the common tasks. The home page also contains links to some of the information resources that are available on the web.
Administrator Guide
Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
Installation of Rational® Integration Tester Agent
You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester Agent from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or package.
Installation of Rational® Test Control Panel
You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or IBM Rational Performance Test Server package.
Upgrading Rational® Integration Tester Agent
In general, you can upgrade from earlier versions of Rational® Integration Tester Agent to the most recent version without having to uninstall the software. Use the Installation Manager Update option to upgrade the software.
License management
As a purchaser of an IBM® Rational® software product, you can choose from the different types of product licenses that you can deploy to use the product.
Configuring Rational® Integration Tester Agent
After you install Rational® Integration Tester Agent, you must edit or modify the attributes in the Agent.config file for the features that you want to test by using the agent. You need to configure the libraries to enable testing the SUT based on certain technologies and also set up the required proxies for enabling testing.
Running Rational® Integration Tester Agent on Microsoft™ Windows™
On computers running Microsoft™ Windows™, the agent is typically installed and run as a Windows service.
Running Rational® Integration Tester Agent on Unix-like systems
On Unix-like systems, you can start Rational® Integration Tester Agent by running the Agent executable in the root of the Rational Integration Tester Agent installation directory (for example, /opt/IBM/RIT-Agent/).
Troubleshooting: Rational® Integration Tester Agent
You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you install and run the Rational® Integration Tester Agent.
HTTP/TCP proxy setup
The process of configuring applications to use the HTTP/TCP proxy varies according to the application.
Setting up the JDBC proxy
After you install the JDBC proxy, you must deploy the proxy into the Java™ virtual machine (JVM) of the relevant applications, set up the proxy for use, and verify that it is deployed.
Administering IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Rational® Test Control Panel
is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The Rational® Test Control Panel allows you to use virtual services published with Rational Integration Tester to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in IBM® Rational Test Virtualization Server.
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 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.
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.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
Viewing results in Rational® Test Control Panel
You can use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to display the results of tests that you run in both Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Control Panel.
Viewing usage statistics of virtual services in Rational® Test Control Panel
You can use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to display the usage statistics of virtual services across Rational Test Virtualization Server and IBM Rational Integration Tester.
Security Considerations
You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
Security considerations for Rational® Test Control Panel
You must ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls. Also, you must know about any security limitations that you might encounter with this server application.
Notices
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