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Product description
What's new
You can find information about the features introduced in this release of IBM® Rational® Integration Tester, Rational Test Virtualization Server, and Rational Performance Test Server.
Installing and upgrading
You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for IBM® Rational® Integration Tester, Rational Test Virtualization Server, and Rational Performance Test Server.
Known issues
You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of Rational® Test Automation Server.
Contacting IBM Rational Software Support
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
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.
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.
Installing Rational® Test Virtualization Server
To use the capabilities of IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server, you must install the IBM Rational Integration Tester Agent in service virtualization mode, and optionally you can install the IBM Rational Performance Tester Agent for performance testing.
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.
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 PanelRational® 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.
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.
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.
Task flow: Working with the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Environments dashboard
You can use the Rational® Test Control Panel Environments dashboard to perform various tasks such as starting, stopping stubs and scenarios, and modifying stub configurations after you have published stubs to Rational Test Control Panel. You can also lock the environment that contain the published stubs.
Virtualizing HTTP
You can simulate an HTTP connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
Virtualizing HTTPS
You can simulate an HTTPS connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
Virtualizing TCP
You can simulate a TCP connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
Virtualizing a REST API without recording or synchronization
You can virtualize REST APIs by using the Recording Studio, or by synchronizing WADL, Swagger, or RAML documents. When none of these options is available, you can still manually virtualize REST APIs that use path parameters.
Creating message-based stubs
In Rational® Integration Tester, there are several methods that you can use to create a message-based stub.
Modifying message-based stubs
You can use either the Test Editor or the Stub Editor to create, modify, and enhance any legacy or new stubs created by Rational® Integration Tester.
Creating and modifying database stubs
You can create and modify database stubs in Rational® Integration Tester.
Configuring stubs to connect to Rational® Test Control Panel and the HTTP proxy
A stub running on its own may not be sufficient in some cases, because it might have dependencies on services such as Rational® Test Control Panel or the HTTP proxy. If the stub is running on the public cloud and the services are running in the enterprise, you must configure the stub to connect to these services.
Publishing and running stubs
You can publish stubs that are created in IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to IBM Rational Test Control Panel, Dockerfile and build context, Kubernetes, or Istio, if the stub is based on a supported transport.
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.
Viewing reports in Rational® Test Automation Server
All the project stakeholders can view test reports for multiple testing products from the Results page on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server. You can access the Results page from a web browser. Therefore, there is no need to install the desktop client.
Troubleshooting: Rational® Test Virtualization Server
You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
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.
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® Integration Tester
Ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls. Also, know about any security limitations that you might encounter with this application.
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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