Publishing test result to IBM Rational Test Automation Server
The test result indicate the quality of the application under test. There could be different stakeholders to the application who do not have the product installed but want to check the quality of application. You, as the user of the product, can publish the test result to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server so that others can view it from the web browser.
- You must have installed the Rational Test Automation Server and started it. The server is part of the product package. For more information about Rational Test Automation Server, see the Knowledge Center.
- If the IBM Rational Test Automation Server server is behind a firewall, you might not be able to connect to it. You must configure the firewall so that it can allow connections on ports 5443 and 7828.
To play back Web UI tests and generate reports in Rational Test Automation Server, you must configure Rational Test Automation Server from the Web UI Test perspective. To play back Functional tests and generate reports in Rational Test Automation Server, you must configure Rational Test Automation Server from the Functional Test perspective.
You can choose to set the publish parameters once in the Preference page so that you do not have to do it after every run or you can set the parameters every time for the specific result that you want to publish. Based on the publish parameters, the test result is published after the test run. For information about how to publish specific test result, see Publishing specific result to Rational Test Automation Server.
- Log in to the server.
- Click the Results page and then expand the test.
- Click the published report links. The report opens in a new browser.