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Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in Rational® Test Automation Server. You can find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Integrating with other applications
You can integrate certain applications with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
Integration with HCL Launch
When you use HCL Launch for automating application deployments of your application, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server from HCL Launch by using the IBM Rational Test Automation Server Launch plugin.
Installing the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin
You must install the latest version of the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin on the HCL Launch server to integrate IBM Rational Test Automation Server with HCL Launch and run tests on the HCL Launch server.

Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in Rational® Test Automation Server. You can find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- Prerequisites to running tests
  Before you can configure and run a test in a project on Rational® Test Automation Server, you must read the information about the different tests. You might want to add a remote static agent or a remote Docker host to the project as an alternate location to run the tests.
- Agents overview
  You can find information about the agents that you must install on remote computers and configure the agents with the offline user token so that the agents register with HCL OneTest™ Server. After the agents are registered, you can add them to your projects and then select them as locations to run tests.
- Managing Docker hosts
  You can set up dedicated external Docker hosts to run large tests or run tests remotely to free up the dependency of running tests on the default cluster of IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
- Test run configurations
  You can configure and run tests in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server after you add the test resources to your project.
- Management of running tests
  Find information about the tasks that you can perform on a test that you configured for a run either while it runs or after it completes the run.
- Management of virtualized services
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on and manage the virtualized services that run on Rational® Test Automation Server. You can start or stop the stubs connected to Rational Test Automation Server. You can view the stub usage statistics and the routing rules configured for the stubs, agents, or proxies that are connected to Rational Test Automation Server.
- Test results
  After the tests or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and reports in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics. You can also re-execute tests and schedules from the Result page with the same commit id.
- Resource Monitoring service
  When you apply load to a system under test, the amount of resources consumed by your system is increasing. If the capacity of the resources does not match the load, you can see performance issues in the results. The Resource Monitoring service in Rational® Test Automation Server helps you monitoring the resources of a system and establish the performance metrics of the system. Thus, you can observe the health of these resources while a schedule is running.
- Integration with Jira as a defect management system
  You can integrate Jira as a defect management system with your project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to create defects for the tests that are available in the project after the test run is complete.
- Integrating with other applications
  You can integrate certain applications with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with HCL OneTest™ Server.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous development of your application, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, in Azure DevOps pipelines by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension.
  - Integration with HCL Launch
    When you use HCL Launch for automating application deployments of your application, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server from HCL Launch by using the IBM Rational Test Automation Server Launch plugin.
    - Installing the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin
      You must install the latest version of the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin on the HCL Launch server to integrate IBM Rational Test Automation Server with HCL Launch and run tests on the HCL Launch server.
    - Using a custom trust store for HCL Launch integration
      You can use a custom trust store in the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin file to establish a trusted and secure connection between the HCL Launch server and Rational Test Automation Server.
    - Creating a component in HCL® Launch
      You must create a component to include artifacts and processes. The artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions. Whereas the processes define the activities that components can perform.
    - Creating a process in HCL® Launch
      You must create a process for the component to include step properties for the test that you want to run from HCL® Launch.
    - Configuring the process
      You must configure the process that you created for the component to organize the steps in the process, specify the properties of the steps, and connect them.
    - Creating a resource in HCL® Launch
      You must create a resource to associate agents with components that you created in HCL® Launch.
    - Configuring the resource
      You must configure the resource to add an agent and associate the agent with the component.
    - Creating an application in HCL® Launch
      You must create an application to fetch all the components together that you want to deploy.
    - Configuring the application
      You must configure the application to associate resources with environments and define processes to run test assets.
    - Running tests on the HCL Launch server
      After you install the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin on the HCL Launch server, you can create a process request that contains the test for your application, and then run the test on the HCL Launch server.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    When you integrate IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server with Jenkins, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on Rational Test Automation Server from a Jenkins server by using the Rational Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin.
  - Integration with UrbanCode Deploy
    When you use UrbanCode™ Deploy (UCD) for automating application deployments of your application, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server from UCD by using the IBM Rational Test Automation Server UCD plugin.
  - Integration with other applications
    You can integrate certain applications with HCL® OneTest™ Data to generate the test data.
- Managing access to the server
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.

Installing the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin

You must install the latest version of the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin on the HCL Launch server to integrate IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server with HCL Launch and run tests on the HCL Launch server.

Before you begin

You must have downloaded the latest version of the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin from HCL License and Delivery Portal. See HCL® License & Delivery portal.

Procedure

Open the HCL Launch dashboard.
Click Settings.
Click Automation Plugins from the Automation pane.
Click Load Plugin.
Click Choose File to locate and Open the compressed IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin file.

Note: Do not extract the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin compressed file contents.
Click Submit.

The IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server Launch plugin is displayed in the Automation Plugins tab.

What to do next

You can run the tests for the application that are available in your Rational® Test Automation Server project on the HCL Launch server. See Running tests on the HCL Launch server.