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Test Execution Specialist guide
This guide, which is intended for a tester or a test execution specialist, describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests on 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.
Integrating with other applications
You can integrate certain applications with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to run tests and view the test results.
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.
Installing the Rational® Test Automation Server UCD Plugin
You must install the latest version of the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin to integrate IBM Rational Test Automation Server with UCD and run tests on the UCD server.

Test Execution Specialist guide
This guide, which is intended for a tester or a test execution specialist, describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests on 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.
- 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.
- 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 internal Docker host 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 and manage on 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.
- Integrating with other applications
  You can integrate certain applications with IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server to run tests and view the test results.
  - 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 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.
    - Installing the Rational® Test Automation Server UCD Plugin
      You must install the latest version of the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin to integrate IBM Rational Test Automation Server with UCD and run tests on the UCD server.
    - Running tests on the UCD server
      After you install the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin on the UCD server, you can create a process request that contains the test for your application, and then run the test on the UCD server.
  - 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 UCD plugin

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

Before you begin

You must have downloaded the IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD plugin 1.0 from the HCL® License & Delivery portal.

Procedure

Open the UCD 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 UCD plugin file.

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

The IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server UCD 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 UCD server. See Running tests on the UCD server.