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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 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.
Working with resources in Rational Quality Manager
Once the IBM® Rational® Integration Tester-IBM Rational Quality Manager integration is complete, you can export tests and test suites from Rational Integration Tester into Rational Quality Manager. Exported tests and test suites are created as test cases and test scripts in Rational Quality Manager.
Tests and test suites in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
After you export tests or test suites into Rational® Quality Manager and the IBM® Rational Integration Tester adapter is configured, you can remotely run Rational Integration Tester resources.
Managing Rational® Integration Tester test execution parameters in Rational® Quality Manager
When you are running Rational® Integration Tester tests from an IBM® Rational Quality Manager server, you can send input parameters to, and receive output parameters from the agent computers that are running the tests. You can also chain together multiple Rational Integration Tester tests in Rational Quality Manager so that the output of one test can be input into another test.
Running multiple Rational® Integration Tester tests in Rational® Quality Manager
To run multiple Rational® Integration Tester tests in IBM® Rational Quality Manager, you must first enable parameter passing with Rational Quality Manager, and then configure the tests in Rational Integration Tester with the appropriate input and output parameters.

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.
    - 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.
      - Setting up the integration with Rational Quality Manager
        You can integrate Rational® Integration Tester and IBM® Rational Quality Manager to run Rational Integration Tester tests and suites in Rational Quality Manager centralized test management environment.
      - Working with resources in Rational Quality Manager
        Once the IBM® Rational® Integration Tester-IBM Rational Quality Manager integration is complete, you can export tests and test suites from Rational Integration Tester into Rational Quality Manager. Exported tests and test suites are created as test cases and test scripts in Rational Quality Manager.
        Exporting resources from Rational® Integration Tester
        After integrating IBM® Rational® Integration Tester with IBM Rational Quality Manager, you can export tests and test suites from Rational Integration Tester into Rational Quality Manager. Exported tests and test suites are presented as test cases and test scripts in Rational Quality Manager.
        Tests and test suites in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
        After you export tests or test suites into Rational® Quality Manager and the IBM® Rational Integration Tester adapter is configured, you can remotely run Rational Integration Tester resources.
        Verifying the Rational® Integration Tester Agent
        Before you can execute IBM® Rational® Integration Tester resources from IBM Rational Quality Manager, the Rational Integration Tester Agent must be configured, running and available as an adapter in Rational Quality Manager.
        Executing test cases in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
        Once you export at least one test or test suite into IBM® Rational® Quality Manager and the IBM Rational Integration Tester adapter is available, you can execute Rational Integration Tester resources remotely.
        Managing Rational® Integration Tester test execution parameters in Rational® Quality Manager
        When you are running Rational® Integration Tester tests from an IBM® Rational Quality Manager server, you can send input parameters to, and receive output parameters from the agent computers that are running the tests. You can also chain together multiple Rational Integration Tester tests in Rational Quality Manager so that the output of one test can be input into another test.
        Adding input and output tags to tests
        You can send input parameters to, and receive output parameters from the agent computers that are running the tests. You can also chain together multiple Rational® Integration Tester tests in Rational Quality Manager so that the output of one test can be input into another test. To accomplish this task, create a simple test in Test Factory, and then expose Rational Integration Tester test tags as input and output.
        Exporting an Rational® Integration Tester test to Rational® Quality Manager
        You can export to an Rational® Integration Tester test to IBM® Rational Quality Manager. After the test is exported, it displays as a test script in a test case.
        Running multiple Rational® Integration Tester tests in Rational® Quality Manager
        To run multiple Rational® Integration Tester tests in IBM® Rational Quality Manager, you must first enable parameter passing with Rational Quality Manager, and then configure the tests in Rational Integration Tester with the appropriate input and output parameters.
      - Troubleshooting: Rational Quality Manager
        You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you work with Rational® Quality Manager.
    - 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.

Running multiple Rational® Integration Tester tests in Rational® Quality Manager

To run multiple Rational® Integration Tester tests in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager, you must first enable parameter passing with Rational® Quality Manager, and then configure the tests in Rational® Integration Tester with the appropriate input and output parameters.

About this task

To be able to run multiple tests in Rational® Quality Manager:

Procedure

To enable parameter passing with Rational® Quality Manager, you must export two or more Rational® Integration Tester tests to Rational® Quality Manager, and then create a Rational® Quality Manager test suite.
Configure all of the tests in Rational® Integration Tester with the appropriate input and output parameters. For example, for a parameter to be passed from Test A to Test B, Test B must have an input parameter with the same name as the output parameter from Test A.
Export the tests to Rational® Quality Manager, create an Rational® Quality Manager test suite, and add all of the tests to the suite in order.
Disable parallel processing of the tests, and enable Passing of execution variables between scripts. This can be done at run time in the Rational® Quality Manager user interface.