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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 scenarios
Use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to manage scenarios with command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
Start a scenario by using an Ant task
You can start a scenario by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant tasks.

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.
      - Managing scenarios
        Use IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel to manage scenarios with command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
        Start a scenario by using the command line
        You can start a scenario by using the Rational® Integration Tester command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
        Stop a scenario by using the command line
        You can stop a scenario by using the Rational® Integration Tester command line, optionally waiting for the scenario to stop before exiting. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
        Start a scenario by using an Ant task
        You can start a scenario by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant tasks.
        Stop a scenario by using an Ant task
        You can stop a scenario 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 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.

Start a scenario by using an Ant task

You can start a scenario by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant tasks.

Here is an example syntax:

<taskdef name="startScenario" classname="com.ghc.ghTester.ant.StartScenario" classpathref="tasklib" />
<startScenario domain="<Domain name>" environment="<Environment name>" name="<Scenario name>"
serverUrl="https://Hostname or IP address:5443/" />

The following table lists the attributes that can you can use with the startScenario Ant task for starting a scenario.

Table 1. List of available attributes
Attribute	Description	Required
async	Run asynchronously (flag).	No, default is synchronous.
domain	Domain name	Yes
environment	Environment name	Yes
failureProperty	The name of a property that is set in the event of a failure.	No
force	Attempt to first stop any already-running scenario in the environment (flag).	No, default is false.
haltOnFailure	Set to true to fail the Ant script if the scenario fails to start (flag).	No, default is false.
name	The name of the target scenario to start.	No
owner	Filters the scenarios by owner.	No
securityToken	Specify the security token generated for you to authenticate with Rational® Test Control Panel when the domain security is enabled. In the locked environment mode, the operation can be performed by the user who locked the environment.	No, default is to send no token.
serverUrl	URL of the Rational® Test Control Panel	Yes
stopStubs	Available settings are as follows: ALL: Stop all stubs in the environment. OPERATIONS: Stop the stubs for the operations in the scenario. NONE: Leave any existing stubs running.	No, default is NONE
username	Specify the user name to authenticate with the server if the environment is locked and the domain security is disabled.	No

Scenario selection

For a description of how to select a scenario, see Scenario selection.

Error codes

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