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Rational® Integration Tester
Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Integration Tester.
Rational® Integration Tester overview
You can use Rational® Integration Tester to create, modify, and run service tests, and performance tests.
Task flow: Basic test scenario
A diagram is provided to show you a basic task flow that can help you get started with some of the features of the tool to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.

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.
  - Rational® Integration Tester overview
    You can use Rational® Integration Tester to create, modify, and run service tests, and performance tests.
    - 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.
    - Task flow: Basic test scenario
      A diagram is provided to show you a basic task flow that can help you get started with some of the features of the tool to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
    - Task flow: Advanced test data scenario
      A diagram is provided to show you an advanced task flow that can help you get started with resources, environments, schemas, and test suites to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
  - Testing methodology
    By following four basic guidelines, you can incorporate Rational® Integration Tester into your testing methodology. These guidelines drive efficient and expedient integration testing, and they can be applied to your testing process and infrastructure requirements.
  - Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing
    A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.
  - Getting started with testing
    You can start using Rational® Integration Tester by completing the preliminary tasks such as creating and running a test, creating and running a stub, recording an HTTP proxy, and running a stub in a Docker container.
  - Rational® Test Control Panel overview
    Rational® Test Virtualization Server stubs designed in Rational Integration Tester are published to Rational Test Control Panel, which holds them in a repository.
  - Rational® Integration Tester accessibility features
    Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use 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.
- 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.

Task flow: Basic test scenario

A diagram is provided to show you a basic task flow that can help you get started with some of the features of the tool to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.

Basic test scenario task flow

Create a project: After you have set up the results database and configured the required setup to enable testing the system under test, start Rational® Integration Tester and create a new project. Creating a new project goes through various stages where you must specify the project name and location. You can optionally specify the details for connecting to the results database and Rational® Test Control Panel, also set up user-based permissions and the change management integration.
Model the system under test: You can use the Synchronization option to build a model of the system under test. This process analyzes the services and infrastructure provided by the system and replicates that within the Architecture School perspective. The synchronization process sets up the logical and physical views, an environment, and any message schemas that are used by the various services in the system. To perform this operation Rational® Integration Tester requires a valid connection and the supported synchronization source to exist within the system under test, so that it can request information on the system.
Record events and create tests: Use the recording studio to record events in the system. You can then create tests from the recorded events in the Events view. You can create Integration tests or Unit tests or both type of tests from the recorded events. The Integration test creates a test that is based on the actions in the selected events, and Unit test creates a test that is based on the message exchange pattern types of the selected operations.
Running or scheduling the running of a test: You can initiate the execution of the test from the Test Factory. The tests run and can be viewed in the Test Lab perspective.
View test results: You can view the execution summary and the detailed coverage, error, and performance reports for executed tests in the Results Gallery perspective.