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Rational® Test Virtualization Server
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.
Integration 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. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
Working in non-GUI mode
You can use the tools and executable files that are provided along with the product software. You can use these tools to perform different test actions in a non-GUI mode.
Managing environments
Locking a Rational® Test Control Panel environment prevents other users from changing the state of that environment, for example, starting or stopping stubs.
Creating an environment by using an Ant task
You can create an environment by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant task.

Rational® Test Virtualization Server
- 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® Test Virtualization Server.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Rational® Test Virtualization Server.
- Administrator Guide
  Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
- 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.
  - Integration 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. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
    - Integration Testing
      You can use find information about the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, or applications.
    - Extending Rational® Integration Tester functionality by using custom functions
      You can add more calculations and operations to tests by using the Rational® Integration Tester custom function class. Rational Integration Tester custom function is a Java™ class that extends the com.ghc.ghTester.expressions function.
    - Working in non-GUI mode
      You can use the tools and executable files that are provided along with the product software. You can use these tools to perform different test actions in a non-GUI mode.
      - Command-line interfaces
        Rational® Integration Tester command-line client is available in Rational Integration Tester 8.0.1 or later.
      - Ant tasks
        You can use the supported Ant tasks that is supplied with Rational® Test Control Panel to create, update, or manage the environment, scenarios, and stubs.
      - REST services
        Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. When used in conjunction with IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel, HTTP methods (such as GET and POST) are mapped to actions on domains, environments, scenarios, stubs and other resource types.
      - Running tests
        Use Rational® Integration Tester to run tests with command-line and Ant APIs.
      - Managing test results
        Use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to manage test results with command-line APIs.
      - Managing domains
        You can create, list, update, and delete domains with the Rational® Test Control Panel REST API.
      - Managing environments
        Locking a Rational® Test Control Panel environment prevents other users from changing the state of that environment, for example, starting or stopping stubs.
        Locking an environment by using the command line
        You can lock an environment by using the Rational® Integration Tester command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
        Unlocking an environment by using the command line
        You can unlock an environment by using the Rational® Integration Tester command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
        Deleting an environment by using the command line
        You can delete an environment and its associated artifacts by using the Rational® Integration Tester command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
        Creating an environment by using an Ant task
        You can create an environment by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant task.
        Deleting an environment by using an Ant task
        You can delete an environment and its associated artifacts by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant tasks.
        Updating an environment by using an Ant task
        You can update values of the attributes of an environment by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant task.
        Locking an environment by using an Ant task
        You can lock an environment by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant tasks.
        Unlocking an environment by using an Ant task
        You can unlock an environment by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant tasks.
        REST services
        Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. When used in conjunction with IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel, HTTP methods (such as GET and POST) are mapped to actions on domains, environments, scenarios, stubs and other resource types.
      - Managing scenarios
        Use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to manage scenarios with command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
      - Managing stubs
        You can manage stubs by using the command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
  - Tester Guide - Service Virtualization
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.
- 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.
- 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.

Creating an environment by using an Ant task

You can create an environment by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant task.

Here is an example syntax:

<taskdef name="createEnvironment" classname="com.ghc.ghTester.ant.CreateEnvironment" classpathref="tasklib" />
<createEnvironment domain="<Domain name>" baseEnvironment="<Environment name>" description="<description>" 
serverUrl="https://Hostname or IP address:5443/RTCP/" nameProperty="<Property to set with the environment>" 
securityToken="<Security token>" />

The following table lists the attributes that you can use with the createEnvironment Ant task for creating an environment.

Table 1. List of available attributes
Attribute	Description	Required
`baseEnvironment`	The name of the environment to be used as the base of the created environment.	Yes
`domain`	Domain name	Yes
`nameProperty`	The property to set for the created environment. The following properties can be set: haltOnFailure When set as `true`, it fails the ant script if the environment is not created. failureProperty Property to set as `true` if the environment is not created.	No
`securityToken`	The value of the security token to use for authentication with Rational® Test Control Panel when domain security is enabled. For more information, see Domain level security.	No
`serverUrl`	URL of the Rational® Test Control Panel	Yes

Note: All environment creation events are recorded in the Rational® Test Control Panel Audit log. (For information about this log, refer to Administration of Rational Test Control Panel.)

Error codes

For details of any error codes, see Exit codes for Command-line client and Ant client.