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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 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.
Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins
You must create a pipeline script to run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.

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.
    - 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.
      - Generating a Jenkins project configuration file for running tests or suites
        After you create tests or test suites for your application in IBM® Rational® Integration Tester, you can generate a project configuration file for the tests.
      - Setting up the integration with Jenkins
        You can run Rational® Integration Tester tests and view the results. You must set up the integration with Jenkins by deploying the Integration Tester Jenkins Plugin on the Jenkins primary server.
      - Configuring a Jenkins environment for viewing test results
        The Integration Tester Test Execution plugin helps to run the test suites. You can also view the test suite results. The Jenkins environment must have the Integration Tester Results plugin for Jenkins installed.
      - Configuring the Freestyle project by using the Integration Tester Jenkins Plugin
        After you install the Integration Tester Jenkins Plugin on the Jenkins server, you can configure the Jenkins Freestyle project environment to run the Integration Tester tests as a Jenkins build.
      - Configuring the Freestyle project by using the Ant script
        After you install the Integration Tester Jenkins Plugin on the Jenkins server, you can configure the Jenkins Freestyle project environment to run the Integration Tester tests as an Ant task by using the test configuration file generated by Rational® Integration Tester.
      - Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins
        You must create a pipeline script to run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
      - Configuring the Pipeline project to use created scripts
        You can configure a Pipeline project directly from the Jenkins UI by using pipeline scripts to run test assets from Jenkins.
      - Configuring the Pipeline project to use scripts from an SCM
        You can configure a Pipeline project to use pipeline scripts from a Source Code Management (SCM) source to run tests from Jenkins.
      - Running tests from Jenkins
        You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.
      - Viewing test results in Jenkins
        After you run tests that are in a Jenkins Freestyle project or a Jenkins Pipeline project, you can view the test results within the Jenkins interface.
    - 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.

Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins

You must create a pipeline script to run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Installed the Integration Tester Jenkins Plugin. See Setting up the integration with Jenkins.
Created an Agent in Jenkins.
Created a Pipeline project in Jenkins.

Procedure

Open the Jenkins Pipeline project on the Jenkins Dashboard, and then click Configure.
Select the Pipeline tab.
Click Pipeline Syntax to generate a pipeline script.
Select the step: General Build Step option from the drop-down list in the Sample Step field.
Select Run Integration Tester Tests option from the Build Step list.

The build step is displayed.

Enter values for the following fields:


Field	Value
Installation directory	Enter the path to the installation directory of Rational® Integration Tester.
Project	Enter the path to the folder containing the project and the name of the project
Environment	Enter the name of the environment that is configured in the project.
Tests	Enter the name of the test that you want to run.

If you leave the Installation directory blank, the following environment variables are queried during runtime to find the directory:

INTEGRATION_TESTER_AGENT_HOME and INTEGRATION_TESTER_HOME.

Note: In Rational® Integration Tester 10.2.2 or later, the environment variables INTEGRATION_TESTER_HOME and INTEGRATION_TESTER_AGENT_HOME are automatically created at the time of installing the product software.

The job fails if the value is blank. These variables must be visible to the user or the service account that is running the Jenkins primary or secondary server. If you update either of the environment variables, you must restart the Jenkins primary or secondary server for the values to take effect.

Click Advanced to view and update the other fields that are relevant for the test.
Click Generate Pipeline Script.

The pipeline script for the build step is created.

Results

You have created the script that you can use in your Pipeline project to run the build step.

What to do next

You can configure your Pipeline project to use the scrip that you created to run tests from the Jenkins server. See Running tests from Jenkins.