Project settings

You can view the project settings by selecting Project > Project Settings from the main IBM® Rational® Integration Tester menu. You can view and edit the settings for the project, server settings, date formats, change management, quality management, permission settings, permissions, results publishers, or APM preferences. You can also create an email publisher or switch users on a project.

The following dialog is displayed where you can view or edit various properties and settings for the current project.

For details, see these sections:

Project properties
Server Settings
Date formats
Quality Management settings
Change Management settings
APM preferences settings
Permission settings
Permissions
Results publishers

For project tasks, see these topics:

Project properties

The Project tab contains summary information about the current project.

The fields in the Project tab are described in the following table:


Location	The full path where the project can be found.
Name	A meaningful name to help identify the project.
Owner	The project’s creator or owner
External Documentation Prefix	The root directory where external documentation for Rational® Integration Tester artifacts is stored.
Rule Cache URI	The location where validation rules are stored for the project (%%PROJECT/ROOT%%Rules, by default).
Inbuilt Certificate Authority	The internal certificate authority for the project.
Comments	User-defined comments that can be used to enter information that might be relevant to the project.

Server Settings

Use the Server Settings tab to configure the servers that will be used for your project. You can manage the JDBC connection details for the results database, which can be specified when you are creating the project, or configure the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel URL. You can also specify the project on the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to which you want to publish the test reports for tests run in Rational® Integration Tester. Image of the Server Settings tab.

Use the fields under Results Database to create or modify a database connection. Select the provider, and enter the connection details about where and how the database is set up for Rational® Integration Tester. For more information on the specification of database URLs when using IP literal addresses, see IP literal address.

To test the provider and connection settings, click Test Connection. If the test is successful, no further configuration is required. If the test is unsuccessful, you must verify that the connection settings are correct and try again.

If you want to automatically synchronize the results database for the changes you make such as renaming or moving the tests, Suites, or stubs that you run after the results of the runs are collected by the results database, you can select the Update database when project artifacts are moved or renamed option. The default option is that the results database is not synchronized automatically. When the database is not synchronized you might find the test results to be incorrectly displayed in the Results Gallery view if the artifices are moved or renamed.

Under Rational Test Control Panel, specify the URL for the server. The server URL (https://localhost:5443/RTCP, by default) must point to the base URL of the server instance that runs published stubs and manage scheduled execution (for more information, see Rational Test Virtualization Server overview). Optionally, click Open to open an instance of the server.

The default domain name to use when publishing stubs to Rational® Test Control Panel. Optionally, click SSL to specify SSL connection details for that server instance. The Server SSL Options dialog opens. Select one of the following options:

Trust all certificates: Use this option to accept any certificate that is presented by the server.
Trust certificates signed by the inbuilt certificate authority: Use this option to accept any certificate presented that was signed by the inbuilt certificate authority.
Trust specific trust store: Use this option to select a specific Java™ keystore within the project, which contains the trusted certificates that can be used to verify the certificate that is presented by the server.
Note: You must ensure that the trust store resides in your project.

If you configured a results database and a server URL, you can publish the details of your results database to the server. The results of your test suite can then be viewed on a web browser. To do so, click Publish results database connection. The results can be used in the Results Gallery of server.

Note: The server stores the results against individual project names. Hence, the results of two projects with the same name cannot be published to the server.

Use the fields under IBM Rational Test Automation Server to configure the connection to the Rational® Test Automation Server. Enter the hostname of the server, and paste the Offline User Token that you generated on the Rational® Test Automation Server. Click Test to test the connectivity to the server. You can click SSL to specify the SSL connection details for the Rational® Test Automation Server.

Select the project on the Rational® Test Automation Server that you want to access and publish the test reports for tests run on Rational® Integration Tester to Rational® Test Automation Server by selecting the Publish results after execution check box.

Date formats

By using the Date Formats tab, you can define the output format of certain date and datetime tags in Rational® Integration Tester (for example, TEST / START_DATE).

For more information, see Formatting and parsing date-time patterns.

Quality Management settings

The Quality Management tab is used to manage quality management systems that can be used with Rational® Integration Tester.

Rational® Integration Tester can be integrated with IBM® Rational® Quality Manager.

For more information about these project settings fields see, Configuring Rational Quality Manager integration.

Change Management settings

The Change Management tab is used to manage change management systems that can be used with Rational® Integration Tester.

Rational® Integration Tester can be integrated with several change management tools including IBM® Rational® Team Concert™.

For more information about these project settings fields see, Setting up the integration with the change management tools.

APM preferences settings

The APM preferences tab is used to manage connection to APM servers that can be used with Rational® Integration Tester.

Rational® Integration Tester can import service or transaction data from IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for Transactions.

For more information about these project settings fields see, Using the Rational Integration Tester UI to import data from Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions.

Permission settings

The Permissions Settings tab is used when you want to manage permissions for members in your project.

You can select from the following options:


Option	Description	Action
(none)	Specifies that there is no method of authentication configured for enabling permissions to members in the project.	Select this option if you do not want any permissions for members of your project.
Rational Test Control Panel	Specifies that the method of authentication for members in the project uses their accounts configured in the Rational® Test Control Panel server. You must have configured the Rational® Test Control Panel server in the Server Setting tab. Note: You can use LDAP for Rational® Integration Tester project authentication, by configuring Rational® Test Control Panel to use LDAP for authentication, then by using Rational® Test Control Panel as the authentication provider in the project. (LDAP is not an option in the authentication provider list in project settings). For more information about how to configure LDAP, see Modifying Rational Test Control Panel security model settings after installation.	Select this option if you want to use the users configured with their roles in the Rational® Test Control Panel server to be applied for members of your project.
Active Directory	Specifies that the method of authentication for members in the project uses an Active Directory.	Select this option, if you want to set up and use an Active Directory to authenticate members of your project.

To use the Active Directory service, you must have set up the Active Directory service on your computer or on a virtual machine. To use the secured connection, you must have set up the required trust stores and key stores.

You must be a project administrator to configure members of your project on the Active Directory service. After you set up the Active Directory service, you must complete the following tasks in the Permission Settings tab:

Enter the hostname or IP address of the computer on which the Active Directory service is configured in the Host field.
Enter the port that you configured for Active Directory to communicate with Rational® Integration Tester in the Port field.
Note: You can use the port you configured or the default port as 389 for non-secure communications or the port as 636 for SSL communications.
Optionally, select the Attempt automatic logon with current user option, if you are not the project administrator but want to configure the permissions for the members of the project. You must enter the password of the project administrator in the Admin password field.
Enter the password as the project administrator in the Admin password field.
Enter the same password in the Confirm field.

Configure the SSL settings by clicking the SSL option, if you want to use secured communications with the Active Directory.

Complete the following actions in the Active Directory SSL Options dialog:


Option	Description	Action
None	Specifies that there are no trust stores configured. This scenario defines an unsecured connection.	Select this option if want to use an unsecured connection between Active Directory and Rational® Integration Tester. Click OK.
Trust all certificates	Specifies that Rational® Integration Tester trusts all the certificates that are presented by the Active Directory Domain Controller and establishes a secure connection.	Select this option if you want to use a secured connection and to enable Rational® Integration Tester to trust all the certificates that are presented by the Active Directory Domain Controller. Click OK.
Trust specific trust store	Specifies that Rational® Integration Tester trusts the certificates that are presented from a specific trust store by the Active Directory Domain Controller and establishes a secure connection.	Select this option if you want to use a secured connection and to enable Rational® Integration Tester to trust the certificates that are presented from a specific trust store by the Active Directory Domain Controller. Note: You must ensure that the trust store resides in your project. Perform the following actions: Click Browse, and go to the folder where you have stored the specific trust store. Select the specific trust store that you want to use. Enter the password for the trust store in the Password field. Click OK.

Click OK to save and apply the permission settings for your project.

Note: After permissions are enabled on a project, only the project administrator or the member who used the admin credentials to configure the permissions has access to the Permissions Settings tab.

Permissions

The Permissions tab is used to manage which users have access to the project and the areas of the project to which they have access.

Note: Only the project administrator has access to the Permissions tab.

Note: A valid domain login must be supplied before a project administrator can access the list of available users and groups. You are prompted to log in when you add users. You can log in to the project as a different user by selecting Switch user from the Project menu in Rational® Integration Tester.

Users can be added to the project by clicking Add and locating the users in the search dialog that is displayed.

Enter a search string (multiple strings can be used, separated by semicolons) and click Search. To add any of the located users or groups to the project, select them and click Add Selected.

Note: Users or groups that were added to the project are not displayed in the filtered list.

For users or groups that are added to the project, permission to perform certain actions must be explicitly allowed or denied. Use the appropriate check box to do so. Permissions can be set for multiple users at the same time.

Tip: To quickly allow or deny all available actions for the selected users or groups, right-click anywhere within the Actions table and select Allow All or Deny All from the menu.

To remove a user or group from the project, select its entry in the current list and click Remove.

Also see Specifying data masking permissions.

Results publishers

The Results Publishers tab is used to manage results publishers that can email test suite results or publish results to a configured CentraSite server. Details about configuration within a test suite can be found in Test Suites: Overview and tasks. For more information, see Testing with Software AG CentraSite.

For each publisher in the list, the following details are displayed:

Name: the name that is given to the publisher when it was created (the name cannot be modified once the publisher is created) and the publisher type
Default: which publisher (if any) is designated as the default for all test suites (the default publisher cannot be set here, but it can be removed)
Enabled: whether the selected publisher is enabled for use in test suites

Click Add to create a publisher. To modify the configuration of the selected publisher, click Edit (see Creating an email publisher for more information on publisher configurations). To delete the selected publisher, click Remove.

To modify the publication settings of the default publisher, select it and click Edit Defaults (see Results publisher settings for more information).

To remove the "default" designation of the default publisher, select it and click Remove Defaults.This action does not delete the publisher. To designate a new default publisher, use test suite editor.

Publishing can be enabled or disabled on a project-wide basis by toggling the results publishing icon IBM® Rational® Integration Tester main toolbar.