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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.
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.
Reports, console output, and notes
In Rational® Integration Tester, you can save, print, and copy reports by using the icons that are displayed above the current report.

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.
  - 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.
    - Viewing the execution results of a test suite
      Summary and detailed reports can be displayed for one test suite instance at a time. An execution summary for the selected test suite instance is displayed at the top of the Results Gallery perspective. Results that are specific to a test suite instance can be listed in the Results Gallery. The results of one or more test suite instances can be deleted from the results database directly within the Results Gallery or from the command line.
    - Viewing the execution results of test cases and test case instances
      Execution results can be displayed for test cases that were executed as part of a test suite. Summary and detailed reports can be displayed for one test case at a time. An execution summary for the selected test case is displayed at the top of the Results Gallery perspective. Results that are specific to a test case instance can be listed in the Results Gallery.
    - Viewing the execution results of stubs
      Summary and detailed reports can be displayed for one stub at a time. Results that are specific to a stub can be listed in the Results Gallery.
    - Viewing the results of test cycles
      Summary and detailed reports can be displayed for one test cycle at a time. An execution summary for the selected test cycle is displayed at the top of the Results Gallery perspective.
    - Detailed reports
      You will find a collection of detailed reports below the suite execution summary that you can view for any selected test instance. If you are using Test Cycles and want coverage reports, you must still execute the applicable tests from within a test suite. In other words, coverage reports are not produced for tests that are executed outside of a test suite.
    - Reports, console output, and notes
      In Rational® Integration Tester, you can save, print, and copy reports by using the icons that are displayed above the current report.
    - Notes®
      Under the Notes tab, you can apply a label to the selected test suite instance, making it easier to identify a specific run, other than the date, or time of the test run in the Results view. You can also enable the Keep result option for the selected instance, which designates that results for the selected instance must not be deleted. The ID of the current user and the current date are stored when this option is enabled.
    - Populating the suite details for past test runs
      If you use a database schema earlier than version 1.9.24.b, detailed reports for tests that were executed against that schema from within a suite are not available in the Results Gallery. If you are now using schema version 1.9.24.b or later, the containing suite details for such tests can be populated in the database.
  - 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.

Reports, console output, and notes

In Rational® Integration Tester, you can save, print, and copy reports by using the icons that are displayed above the current report.

Save a report

The displayed report, console output, or notes can be saved as a web page or text file by clicking the Save icon in the toolbar above the displayed report.

When prompted, specify the location and name of the output file, then click Save.

Print a report

The displayed report, console output, or notes can be printed to a previously configured printer by clicking the Print icon in the toolbar above the displayed report.

Note: For best results when printing reports, Rational® Integration Tester prompts you to save the report and print it from a browser. Click No to cancel and refer to Save a report. To continue printing, click Yes.

When prompted, select the wanted printer and click OK to print.

Copy a report

The displayed report, console output, or notes can be copied to the clipboard by clicking the Copy icon in the toolbar above the displayed report. Rational® Integration Tester copies the report code or console/note text to the clipboard, which can be pasted into another application for further use.

Open a report externally

The displayed report can be opened externally (in the default browser on the local system) by clicking the Open Externally icon in the toolbar above the displayed report.

Note: Files for externally displayed reports are generated in a temporary directory within the current users profile.