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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.
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.
Events view
The Events View displays events that are captured by enabled event monitors. The perspective at the right of Recording Studio is divided into two views: a list of captured events on top and details for the selected event at the bottom. Within the view, you can send a response to selected events or run and manage triggers.
Managing recorded events data
IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel can be used to manage and share recorded events data exported from Rational Integration Tester.

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.
    - Monitor Configuration view
      After you set up the system under test for recording, you can choose what you want to record in the Recording Studio. You can do this by selecting Monitor Configuration (in the upper-left portion of the Recording Studio perspective) that specifies what you want to record. It shares space with the Triggers view. To show the Monitor Configuration view, click the Monitor Configuration tab at the bottom of the view.
    - Events Monitors Properties view
      The Event Monitor Properties view, located directly below the Event Monitors and Triggers view, displays information about the operation that is selected in the Event Monitors view.
    - Events view
      The Events View displays events that are captured by enabled event monitors. The perspective at the right of Recording Studio is divided into two views: a list of captured events on top and details for the selected event at the bottom. Within the view, you can send a response to selected events or run and manage triggers.
      - Specifying the display options in the Events view
        The Events View displays events that are captured in monitored operations, including the details of message bodies and headers for selected events. Several options are available for managing the way information is displayed in the view.
      - Automatically stopping a recording
        By default, the recording operation is manually stopped. However, you can use the Schedule Recording option to automatically stop the recording based on the limit that is set for received messages and the memory usage.
      - Adding or removing columns in the event table
        By default, the event table displays the time stamp, source, and description for each captured event. You can add message fields from a selected event as columns in the event table. You can also remove any custom columns.
      - Sorting data in the events table
        By default, the events in the event table are displayed top to bottom in the order in which they were captured. You can sort the events by the values that are contained in any of the displayed columns.
      - Filtering data in the events table
        You can filter the contents of the event table that is based on existing values in the columns that are displayed in the table, and multiple columns can be filtered at one time.
      - Exporting recorded events
        To save the recorded events, you can export them to a Recording Studio history file or to IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel ( Rational Test Control Panel).
      - Importing recorded events
        To retrieve the recorded events, you can import them from a Recording Studio history file or from IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel.
      - Creating test resources from recorded events
        After events are recorded in a monitored operation, you can create a test, stub, trigger, requirement, operation, or test data sources from selected events in the Events View.
      - Adding recorded events to an existing test or stub
        You can add recorded events to an existing test or stub. Adding events can be used to augment a test, or stub, during development.
      - Managing recorded events data
        IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel can be used to manage and share recorded events data exported from Rational Integration Tester.
        Searching recorded events data
        You can search recorded events data stored in IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel. After retrieving the required data, you can view, edit, and delete it.
    - Triggers view
      A trigger is essentially a publisher that is used to send an event to the system under test. Existing triggers are displayed in the Triggers view, which is in the upper-left portion of the Recording Studio perspective. It shares space with the Event Monitors view. To show the Triggers view, click the Triggers tab at the bottom of the view.
    - Using the Recording Studio
      Use the Recording Studio to monitor and capture events, and use captured events for tests and other artifacts for use within your Rational® Integration Tester project.
    - Data masking concepts, methods, and types
      Use Rational® Integration Tester to add a data mask to particular fields in recorded messages that may contain sensitive data. When you add a mask, you prevent that sensitive data from appearing in any assets created from those messages, such as tests, test data, stubs, and data models.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Managing recorded events data

IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel can be used to manage and share recorded events data exported from Rational® Integration Tester.

The Library page of Rational® Test Control Panel enables you to search, view, edit, delete, and thus manage recorded events data captured in the Recording Studio perspective and exported from Rational® Integration Tester. You can also use the Library page to share your recorded events data with other users of the same instance of Rational® Test Control Panel.

You can import recorded events data from Rational® Test Control Panel into your Rational® Integration Tester project and use it to create tests and stubs. Other users in the same instance of Rational® Test Control Panel can also edit and delete your recorded events data, and import the data into their Rational® Integration Tester projects.

Note: There are limitations with importing recorded events into a project that is different from the project from which they were exported. For more information about this, see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21647162.

Note: You cannot import or export recorded events data from within Rational® Test Control Panel. Rational® Integration Tester is the only application that can be used to import and export recorded events.