Release notes for IBM Rational Test Automation Server

This document includes information about What’s new, installation and upgrade instructions, known issues, and contact information of IBM Customer Support.

Contents

Product description

You can find the description of IBM Rational Test Automation Server.

Rational Test Automation Server is a server that includes capabilities such as project and role-based security, Docker-based distribution and installation, and running of test cases. For more information about the server, see IBM Rational Test Automation Server overview.

What's new

You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational Test Automation Server.

The following sections list the new features, enhancements or other changes made in this release.
  • Support to run mobile tests on device clouds

    You can now configure a connection from Rational Test Automation Server to a mobile device cloud by using the credentials of your cloud subscription account. You can then add team space members as authorized users of the cloud credential. The authorized users can run mobile tests on the mobile devices that are connected to a mobile device cloud.

    See Management of mobile device cloud credentials.

  • Enhancement to the webhooks feature

    The webhooks feature is enhanced to enable you to configure the behavior of notifications that were not sent because the webhook was disabled. You can decide to discard or send the queued notifications when you re-enable the webhook. Webhook templates defined at the team space are now also displayed at the project level.

    See Configuration of a webhook.

  • Support to download test reports

    You can now download the reports and logs of the tests from the Results page. Reports can be saved to a folder on your computer as a compressed file or PDF, which depends on the format of the generated report.

    See Test results and reports.

  • Support to override input tags of virtual services

    You can now specify values for stub input tags by using advanced configuration parameters when you run a virtual service.

    See Additional configuration parameters for virtual services.

  • Support to add an Azure repository

    You can now add an Azure repository that contains test resources to your project in Rational Test Automation Server, and then run the resources from the server.

    See Repository considerations for a server project.

  • Removed support of Prometheus for virtual services

    Virtual service usage in Rational Test Automation Server no longer utilizes Prometheus. If you upgrade from a previous version of Rational Test Automation Server to 10.5.3, any virtual service usage that was captured before 10.5.3 will not be visible in the team space or project virtualization usage pages.

Deprecated capabilities

You can find information about the capabilities that are deprecated in this release and are planned for a removal in a future release.
Note: You can contact the IBM Support team if you have any concerns.
  • No capabilities were deprecated in this release.

Removed capabilities

No capabilities were removed in this release.

Installing and upgrading

You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for Rational Test Automation Server.

Installing Rational Test Automation Server

For instructions about installing the software, see Installation of the server software.

Upgrading of Rational Test Automation Server

For instructions about upgrading the software, see Server software upgrade methods.

Known issues

You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of Rational Test Automation Server.

Table 1. Release documents - Fix list and known issues
Product Download document Knowledge Base
Rational Test Automation Server Release document Knowledge articles

Known problems are documented in the download document for each product and in the form of individual technotes in the Support Knowledge Base:

The knowledge base is continually updated as problems are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

Contacting IBM Rational Software Support

You can find information about Contacting IBM Rational Software Support.

  • For contact information and guidelines or reference materials that you might need when you require support, read the IBM Support Guide.

  • For personalized support that includes notifications of significant upgrades, subscribe to Product notification.

  • Before you contact IBM Rational Software Support, you must gather the background information that you might need to describe your problem. When you describe a problem to an IBM software support specialist, be as specific as possible and include all relevant background information so that the specialist can help you solve the problem efficiently. To save time, know the answers to these questions:
    • What software versions were you running when the problem occurred?
    • Do you have logs, traces, or messages that are related to the problem?
    • Can you reproduce the problem? If so, what steps do you take to reproduce it?
    • Is there a workaround for the problem? If so, be prepared to describe the workaround.