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Rational® Integration Tester is a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. Tests can be built by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return.
Test Factory
The Test Factory perspective is one of the main areas in Rational® Integration Tester. You can create all the tests and the required artifacts/data to support them.

Rational® Integration Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Integration Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install Rational® Integration Tester. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- 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.
- 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.
- Troubleshooting Rational® Integration Tester
  While working with Rational® Integration Tester, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
- Rational® Integration Tester reference
  Rational® Integration Tester is a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. Tests can be built by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return.
  - Rational® Integration Tester overview
    This section provides an overview of Rational® Integration Tester, including information about projects and files, the Rational Integration Tester user interface, environments, and project settings and preferences.
  - Architecture School
    Use the Architecture School perspective to build a system under test by using the logical, physical, and synchronization views. You can also use this perspective to manage the schemas available in your project.
  - Recording Studio
    With Rational® Integration Tester, you can record events (messages or database interactions) sent to and from the system under test. Use Recording Studio to control what parts of the system should be recorded. These parts could be specific parts of the system infrastructure or specific services using that infrastructure. You can then use the recorded events as a source of tests and other interactions with the system. In Recording Studio, you can record the traffic over a number of different transports.
  - Test Factory
    The Test Factory perspective is one of the main areas in Rational® Integration Tester. You can create all the tests and the required artifacts/data to support them.
    - Tests: Overview and tasks
      Tests are the fundamental building blocks of integration and SOA testing. A test sends an input message to an external service or system in a protocol-specific way and validates the reply against an expected result.
    - Test suites: Overview and tasks
      A Test Suite represents a group of tests, test suites, and scenarios. Any combination of these items can be included, but a test suite must always contain at least one scenario and one test. Test suites are used mainly to construct reusable, packaged regression tests that can be run across multiple environments, or repeatedly within the same environment.
    - Stubs: Overview and tasks
      Stubs can be used to simulate services that you are unable to use or that are otherwise unavailable.
    - The Action Editor
      The Action Editor is used to modify the actions that are contained within a test or stub.
    - Creating a test template
      To save time when you are creating tests, you can create a template of test sequences that can be used to quickly create a number of pre-defined tests.
    - Test data sources
      You can configure test data sources that can drive a test template or a test by using several different instances of data. In this way, you can parameterize your tests, substituting specific data from a pre-configured source in different test iterations. You can also use test data to validate the results that are returned by different test actions.
  - Test Lab
    You use the Test Lab to execute test assets, repair tests, and open test assets for editing directly from this perspective. You can execute all of the tests, test suites, and stubs that are created in Test Factory.
  - Results Gallery
    You use the Results Gallery perspective to view an execution summary and detailed coverage, error, and performance reports for executed test suites and for test cases that were executed within a suite or as part of a test cycle.
  - Messages
    Rational® Integration Tester can publish and subscribe to messages as part of a test. A message normally consists of two parts: a header and a body. The header usually adheres to a predefined logical construction, while the structure of the body can be more arbitrary.
  - Schemas
    Rational® Integration Tester can handle many types of content. For the product to be able to interpret the variety of content types, it must associate a content format description, or schema with the content.
  - Database resources, connections, and bindings
    Rational® Integration Tester can interact with any database that supports connectivity through the JDBC specification. These interactions can be used to extract or update data where necessary, and test data sets can be taken directly from database table content.
  - Identity stores and SSL
    An identity store can group a collection of one or more certificates that can be used in IBM® Rational® Integration Tester to validate and authenticate connections that use SSL. After you create an identity store, you can use it to enable SSL communications in various messaging transports.
  - Scripting within tests and stubs
    You can use scripts in Rational® Integration Tester that include the Rational Integration Tester legacy scripting language, ECMAScript (such as JavaScript™), or any third-party scripting language that you install.
  - External tools
    Rational® Integration Tester is primarily GUI-based, but you can also run or view tests, suites, and stubs outside of the Rational Integration Tester.
  - Test actions
    Actions are the building blocks of a test. A test consists of a series of steps and each step is an action. Actions can be defined for tests and stubs.
  - Formatting and parsing date-time patterns
    For some fields in Rational® Integration Tester, you can define patterns for date-time formatting. Pattern letters are repeated, as their number determines the exact presentation of the date-time information that they represent.
  - The Add Numbers service
    The Add Numbers service, included with Rational® Integration Tester, provides a simple way to generate messages that you can observe with topology discovery or capture in Recording Studio.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for product documentation.

Test Factory

The Test Factory perspective is one of the main areas in Rational® Integration Tester. You can create all the tests and the required artifacts/data to support them.

All test items are created in the Test Factory tree, on the left side of the perspective. Any test or test-related item that is created in the Test Factory can be edited in the editing panel, on the right side of the perspective.

The Test Factory tree

The Test Factory tree, to the left of the Test Factory perspective, contains all of your project resources such as components, operations, and test items. As tests and test items are added to the tree, they are automatically organized, by folder, under the operation in which they are created.

Test factory tree

To focus the view on a specific item, right-click and select Promote to Root from the menu. To restore the normal view, click the root of the tree and select Demote from Root from the menu.
To view the list of resources that are referencing an artifact in the project, right-click the artifact in the tree view. Click Find references. The tree view lists all the resources in the projects that has references to the selected artifact. To restore the view, click in the Test Factory toolbar and click Clear in the Search window.

The Test Factory toolbar

The Test Factory toolbar contains shortcuts for creating test items and supporting artifacts, and for manipulating what is displayed in the tree.

Test Factory toolbar

The editing panel

The editing panel is used to modify test items that are created in the Test Factory perspective.

Note: Items that are created in a different perspective (for example, messages, triggers) must be edited in their own perspective.

Test factory editing panel

Double-click any Test Factory item to open it for editing. Details about editing each item can be found in the following topics:

Linking items with the editor

You can enable or disable the link between an open item in the The editing panel and the Test Factory tree by toggling the Link with Editor icon . When enabled, the test asset that is selected in the editing panel is highlighted and brought into view in the tree. Similarly, if an open item is selected in the tree, it is brought into focus in the editing panel.