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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.
Integrations
Rational® Integration Tester supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy.
Rational® Integration Tester and Azure DevOps
When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in Rational® Integration Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Integration Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
Installing the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension
You must install the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension in your Azure DevOps organization before you can use the extension to run tests for your application in an Azure DevOps pipeline. The IBM Rational Test Workbench extension supports the running of tests that are created in 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.
  - Installation of Rational® Integration Tester
    You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Integration Tester from the IBM Rational Test Workbench or IBM Rational Integration Tester package.
  - Installation of Rational® Test Control Panel
    You can find information about installing IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel from the IBM Rational Test Workbench, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, or IBM Rational Performance Test Server package.
  - Configuration of Rational® Integration Tester
  - Administering IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Rational® Test Control Panel
    is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The Rational® Test Control Panel allows you to use virtual services published with Rational Integration Tester to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in IBM® Rational Test Virtualization Server.
  - Integrations
    Rational® Integration Tester supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and Apache Maven
      Apache Maven is a software build tool that is based on the concept of a Project Object Model (POM). You can use the Maven plug-in that is provided for Rational® Integration Tester to run integration tests and test suites as part of your Maven build.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and Azure DevOps
      When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in Rational® Integration Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Integration Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
      - Task flow for integration with Azure DevOps
        You can find information about the tasks that you must perform for the integration with Azure DevOps by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension. You can then run the IBM Rational Integration Tester Task in the Azure DevOps pipeline.
      - Prerequisites for Integration with Azure DevOps
        Before you integrate Rational® Integration Tester with Azure DevOps by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension, you can find information about certain tasks that you must complete.
      - Installing the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension
        You must install the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension in your Azure DevOps organization before you can use the extension to run tests for your application in an Azure DevOps pipeline. The IBM Rational Test Workbench extension supports the running of tests that are created in Rational® Integration Tester.
      - Running tests in an Azure DevOps pipeline
        You must create tests in Rational® Integration Tester for the application that you are testing. You must install the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension in your organization and configure the IBM Rational Integration Tester Task that you want to run as a job in the Azure DevOps pipelines.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and change management tools
      Rational® Integration Tester can be integrated with the OSLC-compliant Change Management Integration Providers such as Rational Team Concert™. It can also be integrated with Team Foundation Server Change Management Integration Providers (such as Microsoft™ Team Foundation Server), and Atlassian Jira. After integration, defects and projects can be tracked directly through Rational Team Concert.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and Git
      The Git integration feature provides a flexible test asset management method to track, back up, and collaborate on a project with multiple users. Collaborators in Git can import projects and test assets from shared repositories into IBM® Rational® Integration Tester and contribute their own assets and changes to the project so that everyone has access to the changes.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and HP Quality Center
      The Rational® Integration Tester add-in for HP Quality Center provides a way to integrate the powerful test creation and execution functionality of Rational Integration Tester with the organizational structures provided by Quality Center.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and IBM® Engineering Test Management
      When you integrate Rational® Integration Tester with Engineering Test Management, you can run Rational Integration Tester tests and suites in the centralized test management environment of Engineering Test Management.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
      The integration of Rational® Integration Tester with IBM® Rational Quality Manager enables the execution of Rational Integration Tester tests and suites in Rational Quality Manager centralized test management environment.
    - Integration with Rational Software Architect Designer
      With IBM® Rational® Software Architect Designer, you can design an organization's services, which include technical description, technical documentation, and links to other technical documentation. As a tester, you can pull this information into Rational Integration Tester by using a WSDL or WADL add operation and populate the Architecture School quickly and accurately. Rational Integration Tester parses the added documents in a way that you can directly use them in your testing.
    - Rational® Integration Tester and Jenkins
      When you use Jenkins for the continuous integration (CI) of your application, you can run tests for testing your application. You can run tests created in Rational® Integration Tester for your application in Jenkins by using the Integration Tester Jenkins Plugin.
    - Rational Integration Tester and UrbanCode Deploy
      When you use UrbanCode™ Deploy (UCD) for automating application deployments of your application, you can run tests created for your application that are created in Rational® Integration Tester. You can run the tests from UCD by using the UCD plugin for Rational Integration Tester or the UCD plugin for Rational Test Virtualization Server
    - Rational® Test Virtualization Server with Engineering Test Management
      You can implement Rational® Test Virtualization Server in Engineering Test Management integrated with Rational Test Virtualization Server by using Rational Test Control Panel.
    - Rational® Test Virtualization Server with Rational® Quality Manager
      You can implement Rational® Test Virtualization Server in Rational Quality Manager integrated with Rational Test Virtualization Server by using Rational Test Control Panel.
- 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.
- 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.

Installing the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension

You must install the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension in your Azure DevOps organization before you can use the extension to run tests for your application in an Azure DevOps pipeline. The IBM Rational Test Workbench extension supports the running of tests that are created in Rational® Integration Tester.

Before you begin

You must have access to the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.

About this task

You must install the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace portal as an extension in your Azure DevOps organization. You can then use the extension to run tests for your application in an Azure DevOps pipeline.

Procedure

Log in to the Visual Studio Marketplace portal, if you are not already logged in.
Click the Azure DevOps tab.
Search for the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension.
Click IBM Rational Test Workbench extension.
Click Get it free.
Select the organization where you want to install the extension from the Select an Azure DevOps Organization list.
Click Install.

The IBM Rational Test Workbench extension is installed as an extension in the Azure DevOps organization.
Click Proceed to organization.

The Organization page in Azure DevOps is displayed.
Click Organization settings.

The Organization Settings page is displayed.
Click Extensions.

The IBM Rational Test Workbench extension is displayed as an installed extension.

Results

You have successfully installed the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension in your Azure DevOps organization.

What to do next

You can run the tests that you created in Rational® Integration Tester as a job in an Azure DevOps pipeline. See Running tests in an Azure DevOps pipeline.