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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.
Test run configurations
You can configure and run tests in IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server after you add the test resources to your project.
Configuring a test for a quick run
You can configure any type of test to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server when you want to quickly ensure that the test runs correctly. You might not want to set the different options for the test nor want to schedule the run.

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.
  - Configuring a test for a quick run
    You can configure any type of test to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server when you want to quickly ensure that the test runs correctly. You might not want to set the different options for the test nor want to schedule the run.
  - Configuring a run for an AFT Suite
    After you added the AFT Suite asset that you created in the desktop client to the project, you can configure an AFT Suite to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Configuring a run for an API Suite
    After you added the API Suite asset that you created in the desktop client to the project, you can configure an API Suite to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Configuring a run for Compound Tests that contains traditional HTML tests
    You can configure a Compound Test that contains traditional HTML tests to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Configuring a run for Compound Tests that contains Web UI tests
    You can configure a Compound Test that contains Web UI tests to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Configuring a run for Compound Tests that contains performance tests
    You can configure a Compound Test that contains performance tests to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Configuring a run for Rate Schedules or VU Schedules
    You can configure Rate Schedules or VU Schedules to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server.
  - Running tests by using Data Fabrication
    Starting from V10.0.2, if a test or schedule is associated with a dataset, you can replace the dataset at run time with the schema created from the Data Fabrication page.
- 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.
- Managing access to the server
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.

Configuring a test for a quick run

You can configure any type of test to be run on IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server when you want to quickly ensure that the test runs correctly. You might not want to set the different options for the test nor want to schedule the run.

Before you begin

You must be a member of the project with the Owner or Tester role to configure and run tests.
You must have read and completed the tasks mentioned in Prerequisites to running tests if they apply to the test you are configuring for a run.

Procedure

Open the project that contains the test assets you have added from the Git repository and click Execution.
Select the branch of the repository that contains the test assets that you want to run.

All test assets in the selected branch are displayed on the Execution page.
Identify and select the test asset that you want to run from the test assets listed.
Click the Execute icon in the row of the identified test asset.

The Execute test asset dialog box is displayed.
Select the version of the test resources that you want to run, if you want to run a different version other than the latest version.
Select Now, to initiate the test run immediately after you click Execute.
Enter a label for the test run that helps you to identify the test on the Results page.

After the test run completes, the text that you entered is displayed for the test under the Labels column on the Results page.
Click Execute.
The test run is started.

Results

You have started a test run.

What to do next

You can choose to perform any of the following tasks:

You can view the progress of the test from the Progress page. See Viewing the progress of running test assets.
You can view the results, reports, and logs of the test from the Results page after the test completes the run. See Test results.