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Rational® Integration Tester
Reference Guide
This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
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.
Executing a test asset
Test assets can be executed in the Test Lab in several ways.

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
  While working with Rational® Integration Tester, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
- Reference Guide
  This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
  - 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.
  - 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.
    - Open a test asset for editing
      Use Test Factory to open test assets can be opened for editing, either directly from the Test Execution tree or from a test assets entry in the Task Monitor.
    - Executing a test asset
      Test assets can be executed in the Test Lab in several ways.
    - Stopping the execution of a test asset
      If the execution of a test asset is in progress, you can stop it at any time by clicking the Stop selected icon in the Task Monitor toolbar.
    - Copying the resource execution URL of an asset
      To copy the resource execution URL for any test or test suite that has an entry in the Task Monitor of the Test Lab, right-click the entry and click Copy Link.
    - Viewing message differences to repair validation errors
      After a message passes or fails validation, you can view the expected message and the received message in the Message Differences window. To open the window, click the entry in the console that details the difference or the passed assertion, or right-click the Console entry and click Show Differences.
    - Repairing validation failures
      If a message fails validation, you can repair the differences directly from the Console. Right-click the Console entry that details the failure and select a repair option.
    - Opening a failed test action
      If a test fails because of a failed test action, you can open the failed test action directly from the Console. An example could be a message that is not received within the timeout period.
    - Overwriting messages that use validation rules
      If an expected message contains one or more fields that use validation rules, you must specify how to handle the rules when you overwrite the message from the Test Repair Wizard or from the console.
    - The Test Repair wizard
      The Test Repair wizard can be used to fix validation errors in one or more executed tests. To launch the wizard, select the entries of the tests to repair in the Task Monitor and click the Launch Test Repair Wizard icon in the toolbar.
  - 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.

Executing a test asset

Test assets can be executed in the Test Lab in several ways.

To use the current environment or to customize the execution, right-click the asset in the Test Execution tree and click Run.
To use the current environment, select the asset and, in the main toolbar, click the Run icon. For customized execution, click the small arrow next to the icon to use the Run option.
If the test asset was executed recently, click the small arrow next to the Run icon in the main toolbar and click the test asset.
If the asset was executed once already, click its entry in the Task Monitor and click the Launch again icon in the Task Monitor toolbar.

For more information about running specific test resources, see Running or scheduling the running of a test, Test Suite execution, and Running stubs.