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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.
Tester Guide - Integration Testing
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 Testing
You can use find information about the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, or applications.
Testing with IBM® WebSphere® Application Server
You can configure IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to synchronize IBM WebSphere® Application Server resources.
Integration with Service Integration Bus (SIBus)
In Rational® Integration Tester 8.5.1 or later, you can integrate with the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration (SIBus).
Service Integration Bus (SIBus) transports
Rational® Integration Tester 8.5.1 or later includes a transport for integrating with the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus). This transport enables you to create a connection to the bus through the JMS provider, which is the default messaging provider of WebSphere Application Server.
Using the SIBus transport for recording and stubbing
You can record messages sent to mediated destinations and virtualize services that use those destinations by using sift-and-pass-through stubs.

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.
- Tester Guide - Integration Testing
  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 Testing
    You can use find information about the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, or applications.
    - Testing Java™ applications
      You can use Rational® Integration Tester to test Java™ applications.
    - Testing Java™ Message Service (JMS) systems
      Use the generic JMS plug-in to connect Rational® Integration Tester to a wide range of EAI platforms, which includes any vendor that provides an implementation of this Java™ standard. JMS provides a way of separating the application from the transport layer of providing data. The same Java classes can be used to communicate with different JMS providers by using the JNDI information for a specific provider. The classes first use a connection factory to connect to the queue or topic, and then use populate and send or publish the messages. On the receiving side, the clients then receive or subscribe to the messages
    - Testing Java™ objects
      You can import Plain Old Java™ Objects (POJOs) from JAR files into Rational® Integration Tester in order to parse and construct messages containing the serialized forms of those objects. You can construct and parse the Java objects and perform validation, but you cannot test the objects directly.
    - Testing with Apache Camel components
      You can use Rational® Integration Tester to create tests and stubs by setting up an Apache Camel component in a Rational Integration Tester project. You can configure the technology endpoints supported by the Camel component as the physical resources in the Rational Integration Tester project and test for the services provided by the technology.
    - Testing with Apache Kafka
      Starting from IBM® Rational® Integration Tester 10.0.2 and later, you can create Kafka transports to test Kafka services.
    - Testing with Docker
      You can use Docker containers with Rational® Integration Tester to run stubs co-located with your test systems.
    - Testing with the email transport
      When you use applications in your test environment that use email services, you can use Rational® Integration Tester to create tests and stubs for testing the email services. You can set up an email transport in a Rational Integration Tester project and configure the email servers as the physical resources in the Rational Integration Tester project, and then test the email services.
    - Testing with Envoy Proxy (Experimental)
      You can use Rational® Integration Tester to record the HTTP traffic on the Envoy Proxy by using the Experimental HTTP Tap Filter feature of the Envoy Proxy.
    - Testing with the File transport
      As with any other transport, the File transport includes both logical and physical configurations. Tests and stubs are associated with the logical File resource, which represents an abstraction of the File resource and is the same for all environments. The physical File Access configuration includes connection details, and you can configure a different physical File Access for each environment.
    - Testing with the FIX transport
      You can use the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) transport and FIX dictionaries in Rational® Integration Tester to help you test trade-related messages and the systems that use them.
    - Testing with the HTTP transport
      To provide support for HTTP-based communications, you must configure and run Rational® Integration Tester by using the HTTP transport and SOAP message formatters.
    - Testing with IBM® API Developer Portals
      You can configure IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to synchronize IBM API Connect™ Developer Portal resources or IBM API Management Developer Portal resources.
    - Testing with IBM® App Connect Enterprise
      When you want to test the services on applications deployed by the integration node of IBM® App Connect Enterprise, you can use the synchronization feature in Rational® Integration Tester to import details of deployed applications into a Rational Integration Tester project. You can select the tests and stubs to be created in your project during the synchronization process in Rational Integration Tester.
    - Testing with IBM® Integration Bus
      When you want to test the services on applications deployed by the integration node of IBM® Integration Bus, you can use the synchronization feature in Rational® Integration Tester to import details of deployed applications into a Rational Integration Tester project. You can select the tests and stubs to be created in your project during the synchronization process in Rational Integration Tester.
    - Testing with IBM® WebSphere® Application Server
      You can configure IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to synchronize IBM WebSphere® Application Server resources.
      - IBM® WebSphere® Application Server requirements
        You can find information about the software requirements for using IBM® WebSphere® Application Server products with IBM Rational® Integration Tester.
      - Deploying JDBC proxy into WebSphere® Application Server
        The JDBC proxy must be deployed on each application server that is running WebSphere® Application Server. The JDBC proxy enables a server that hosts applications to use JDBC to access a live database that you want to record or virtualize.
      - Selecting and enabling JDBC data sources in WebSphere® Application Server
        For each JDBC data source that you want to record or virtualize, you must use IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to select and enable the data source.
      - Removing JDBC proxy from WebSphere® Application Server
        After testing is complete, you can remove the JDBC proxy from the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server instance.
      - Working with IBM® WebSphere® Application Server resources
        You can synchronize IBM® WebSphere® Application Server resources in Rational® Integration Tester.
      - Integration with Service Integration Bus (SIBus)
        In Rational® Integration Tester 8.5.1 or later, you can integrate with the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration (SIBus).
        Service Integration Bus (SIBus) transports
        Rational® Integration Tester 8.5.1 or later includes a transport for integrating with the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus). This transport enables you to create a connection to the bus through the JMS provider, which is the default messaging provider of WebSphere Application Server.
        Creating WebSphere® service integration bus (SIBus) transports
        The IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus) transport can record, send, and receive WebSphere Application Server SIBus messages in IBM Rational® Integration Tester.
        Configuring JNDI connections
        You can configure IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus) transports to connect to the bus using a preconfigured JMS connection factory accessed through JNDI.
        Configuring direct connections
        You can configure IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus) transports to connect directly to the bus.
        Configuring SIBus security with SSL
        To connect securely to SIBus using SSL security, you must set up an IBM® SSL properties file and configure Library Manager with a system property that points to it.
        Configuring stub settings for SIBus transports
        You can configure stubs using IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus) transports to consume messages from the real destination or to use sift-and-pass-through.
        Configuring advanced settings for SIBus transports
        You must configure settings in the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus) transport to enable the matching of requests with their replies.
        Using the SIBus transport for recording and stubbing
        You can record messages sent to mediated destinations and virtualize services that use those destinations by using sift-and-pass-through stubs.
        Working with SIBus messages
        SIBus is a JMS provider. Therefore, the basic process for setting up, publishing, and subscribing to messages works the same way for SIBus as it does for JMS, except for the settings used for destinations.
        Deploying SIBus Intercept Mediator
        You must set up several artifacts for the Service Integration Bus (SIBus) in IBM® WebSphere® Application Server to record and virtualize SIBus destinations in IBM Rational® Integration Tester.
        Configuring the service integration bus for recording and virtualizing in Rational® Integration Tester
        To enable recording and virtualizing with the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus), you must do certain tasks.
      - Troubleshooting: WebSphere® Application Server
        You can use workarounds to problems that you might encounter when you use IBM® WebSphere® Application Server products with Rational® Integration Tester.
    - Testing with IBM® WebSphere® MQ messages
      You can test WebSphere® MQ messages using the WebSphere MQ transport method or JMS interface. Rational® Integration Tester also supports testing WebSphere MQ on z/OS systems.
    - Testing with WebSphere® Portal
      You can configure IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to synchronize IBM WebSphere® Portal resources.
    - Testing with IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition
      IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition provides a framework for enabling z/OS®-based programs and data to fully participate in the new API economy for mobile and cloud applications. Use IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition to access z/OS subsystems, such as CICS®, IMS™ and Batch, by using RESTful APIs with JSON formatted messages. You can access multiple z/OS subsystems concurrently through a common interface.
    - Testing with Istio
      When you have applications hosted in a Kubernetes cluster that have Istio as a service mesh, you can virtualize the services in the cluster by creating stubs and tests for testing with Istio in Rational® Integration Tester.
    - Testing with Kubernetes
      For testing with Kubernetes set up a Kubernetes cluster, and then you can create and publish stubs from Rational® Integration Tester so that stubs can be run within Kubernetes. The stubs published can be co-located with existing services running within the Kubernetes cluster.
    - Testing with Microsoft™ .NET objects
      You can import serializable .NET objects from .NET assembly files (.exe or .dll) into IBM® Rational® Integration Tester and apply them to messages in the same way as you would apply a schema. A service-based test or stub can then send and receive a message containing a serialized form of a .NET object from the assembly file. You can construct and parse the .NET objects and perform validation, but you cannot test the objects directly.
    - Testing the migrated Postman collections
      You can migrate Postman collections and environments that you created in Postman to Rational® Integration Tester. Operations, transports, tests and stubs are automatically created during migration and you can run the tests and stubs in Rational Integration Tester.
    - Testing with MongoDB
      If you are using Rational® Integration Tester 9.5.0 or later, you can create MongoDB transports and run tests against them.
    - Testing with the MQ telemetry transport
      If you are using Rational® Integration Tester 8.6.0 or later, you can create MQ telemetry transports.
    - Testing with Oracle Fusion
      Configure and run Rational® Integration Tester with the Oracle Fusion plug-in, which provides support for synchronization with and testing of the web services and composites that are available on a configured SOA server (that is, an Oracle WebLogic server with Oracle SOA Suite 11g deployed on it).
    - Testing with RabbitMQ
      If you are using Rational® Integration Tester 9.2.1.1 or later, you can create RabbitMQ transports.
    - Testing with SAP applications
      You can use Rational® Integration Tester to test SAP application server resources.
    - Testing with Software AG CentraSite
      You can incorporate governance in your SOA by using the integration of Rational® Integration Tester with Software AG CentraSite.
    - Testing with Software AG Universal Messaging
      You can use Rational® Integration Tester API to test Software AG Universal Messaging Broker server resources. From Rational Integration Tester 10.0.2 or later, you can create Software AG Universal Messaging Broker transports, configure and run Rational Integration Tester with the Software AG Universal Messaging server.
    - Testing with Software AG webMethods
      You can configure and run Rational® Integration Tester with the Software AG webMethods Integration Server to connect to Software AG webMethods Broker and Integration Server resources.
    - Testing with SSL
      To provide secure connections between clients and servers during testing, you can use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology supported by Rational® Integration Tester.
    - TCP and UDP
      In Rational® Integration Tester, you can create transports that facilitate communication between clients and servers by using both TCP- and UDP-based sockets.
    - Testing with TIBCO applications
      To use IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to test TIBCO messaging, you must configure and run Rational Integration Tester with the TIBCO messaging plug-in. Doing so supports TIBCO Rendezvous messaging ("plain" TIBCO Rendezvous messaging and TIBCO ActiveEnterprise (AE) formats), TIBCO EMS messaging, and sending and receiving AE messages by using TIBCO EMS.
    - Testing applications on z/OS®
      You can test applications on IBM® z/OS® systems by using the capabilities that are supported for mainframes by Rational® Integration Tester. Rational Integration Tester is installed as part of the IBM Rational Test Workbench product offering.
    - Managing credentials
      If you have external resources that must be accessed by project or test resources in Rational® Integration Tester and you do not want to expose the credentials used to access the external resources, then you can implement a user-defined access in a credential management system.
    - Configuration of virtual IP addresses as virtual clients
      You can find information about how to configure virtual IP addresses in the operating system, and then use the virtual IP addresses to configure them as virtual clients in tests or as virtual servers in stubs.
    - Security vulnerabilities testing by using HCL® AppScan
      You can use HCL® AppScan to scan all HTTP traffic that is generated as part of integration testing in Rational® Integration Tester for security vulnerabilities.
  - 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
    You can use the tools and executable files that are provided along with the product software. You can use these tools to perform different test actions in a non-GUI mode.
- 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.

Using the SIBus transport for recording and stubbing

You can record messages sent to mediated destinations and virtualize services that use those destinations by using sift-and-pass-through stubs.

About this task

Before you can use sift-and-pass-through stubs, you must install and configure the required files and transport for the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server service integration bus (SIBus).

Recording and stubbing using sift-and-pass-through stubs is not supported when using JNDI to look up SIBus destinations. For information about setting up the SIBus transport, see Creating WebSphere service integration bus (SIBus) transports.

Procedure

For information about how to work with messages, see Working with SIBus messages.
For information about recording, see Recording Studio.
For information about stubbing, see Creating and modifying message-based stubs.