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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 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.
Setting up the integration with HP Quality Center
To integrate with HP Quality Center, a series of files are provided that enable the Quality Center client to locate and execute tests and suites from a Rational® Integration Tester project. All modifications that are required for the integration are performed on the Quality Center server. All clients that connect to such servers are automatically updated to enable the Rational Integration Tester functionality.
Normalizing the location of Rational® Integration Tester assets
By normalizing the location of Rational® Integration Tester assets in HP Quality Center, multiple users can access the same resources locally.

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.
      - Setting up the integration with HP Quality Center
        To integrate with HP Quality Center, a series of files are provided that enable the Quality Center client to locate and execute tests and suites from a Rational® Integration Tester project. All modifications that are required for the integration are performed on the Quality Center server. All clients that connect to such servers are automatically updated to enable the Rational Integration Tester functionality.
        Installation files for HP Quality Center
        To enable the integration of IBM® Rational® Integration Tester and Quality Center, it is necessary to modify the list of existing test types and deploy more files to the Quality Center server for some versions.
        Setting up the HP Application Lifecycle Management 11.x server
        To enable the integration with HP Quality Center 11.x, you must deploy the Rational® Integration Tester additional files to the ALM 11.x Server.
        Setting up the HP Application Lifecycle Management 12.0 server
        To enable the integration with HP Quality Center 12.0, you must deploy the Rational® Integration Tester additional files to the ALM 12.0 Server.
        Setting up HP Quality Center 11.x and 12.0 client
        Setting up HP ALM server for auto deployment of files to the clients is a simple way to enable functionality for any client that is accessing the server. In some organizations, however, auto deployment is not a feasible scenario (for example, if security policies prohibit clients from having local admin privileges). In such cases, clients that require the integrated functionality can have the plug-in files deployed manually. In this way, the plug-in files can be targeted to only the clients that require them, rather than all HP Quality Center users.
        Installing the Connectivity Add-In on the clients
        After deploying the Rational® Integration Tester files to HP Quality Center, you must install the Connectivity Add-in on the clients to execute Rational Integration Tester tests from HP Quality Center.
        Setting up the HP Application Lifecycle Management 12.2 and 12.5 server
        To enable the integration with HP Quality Center 12.x, you must deploy the Rational® Integration Tester additional files to the ALM 12.x Server.
        Setting up HP Quality Center 12.2 and 12.5 client
        Setting up HP ALM server for auto deployment of files to the clients is a simple way to enable functions for any client that is accessing the server. However, in some organizations auto deployment is not a feasible scenario (for example, if security policies prohibit clients from having local admin privileges). In such cases, clients that require the integrated functions can deploy the plug-in file manually. In this way, the plug-in files can be targeted to only the clients that require them, rather than all HP Quality Center users.
        Installing the Connectivity Tool and performing HP ALM Client Registration on 12.2 and 12.5 clients
        After you deploy the Rational® Integration Tester files to HP Quality Center, you must install the Connectivity Tool and perform the HP ALM Client Registration on the clients to create and run Rational Integration Tester tests from HP Quality Center.
        Example: Customizing the workflow in HP ALM Quality Center
        You can add workflow scripts to HP Quality Center to customize the user interface and add actions for users.
        Normalizing the location of Rational® Integration Tester assets
        By normalizing the location of Rational® Integration Tester assets in HP Quality Center, multiple users can access the same resources locally.
      - Working with integration test artifacts in HP Quality Center
        You can create tests in HP Quality Center by using the GH-Tester test type. You can also link Rational® Integration Tester tests to HP Quality Center tests with the Quick Link tool.
    - 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.

Normalizing the location of Rational® Integration Tester assets

By normalizing the location of Rational® Integration Tester assets in HP Quality Center, multiple users can access the same resources locally.

Procedure

Select a folder in your file system where all projects are to be created, maintained, and checked out.
Share this common root folder by using normal Windows™ file sharing. Read-only access is all that is required.
Map a network drive to this folder. Use an agreed-upon letter for the drive that does not create conflicts for any potential other users, such as Q: (for Quality Center).

Note: The term "network drive" is a misnomer in this case, as you are mapping a local drive.
In HP Quality Center, when you configure an Rational® Integration Tester test, you must specify a project location. Use the mapped drive (Q: in the example) to point to the project you want to link to.
Other users must map a drive to the same folder, using the same drive letter, and link to projects by referencing that drive letter.

Results

All users can now see a performance increase because they access the resources locally. All HP Quality Center linked tests are also run locally through the mapped drive.