What's New

You can now add an external database connection to a project in Test Hub, and then create a database query to import data from the database. You can also create test assets such as datasets and Data definitions by using the database query.

You can now use the Security page to create and manage API secrets and dataset classifications. You can also add the credentials of external databases to data classifications.

You can now provide Read access to the classifications at the role level, while Write access is restricted. The Access Control List UI is enhanced so that you grant both Read and Write access to members with classification privileges. See Protecting API test assets by using secrets, Managing an encrypted dataset.

You can now install and configure the DevOps Test Hub Results Data plugin by using a proxy connection in Grafana instead of using additional helm parameters during the installation of Test Hub. See Installing and configuring the DevOps Test Hub Results Data plugin.

You can now view the configuration details of a Virtual Service that you configured during a run from the Instances page. The details such as the datasets selected for overrides, variables, JVM arguments, environment variables, and additional parameters are displayed, if they are configured.

The editing capabilities of datasets are further enhanced in Test Hub 11.0.0. You can now perform different actions to edit the dataset from the UI by using the Editing panel, the context menu options, and the insert options available in the Dataset panel.

Rational Test Automation Server now supports the capability to generate test data that you can use in your tests at test run time.

You can use the built-in data generators or create customized data generators to suit your test data requirements. You can preview the test data in the UI before you generate the test data. You can also download the generated test data.

You can view the history of the test data generated, and you can regenerate the test data with or without altering any of the parameters used.

See Data fabrication.

The findings from the analysis are presented as a recommendation for each of the parameters on the Infrastructure > Analyzers page in the team space.

You can improve ML recommendations by altering the default Threshold value that specifies the level of confidence required in the insights. You can also improve the accuracy of the recommendations by running multiple tests with differing loads repeatedly.

See Machine learning capabilities in DevOps Test Hub.

The CSV Editor that is used to edit datasets is enhanced and now opens within the Rational Test Automation Server UI, which previously opened in a separate browser tab.

Further, the pages and the methods to create, open, or view datasets are changed in their presentation in the UI.

See Management of datasets.

You can now set the dataset classification (encrypted password) for a dataset irrespective of its location in branches in a repository. The dataset classification that you set is applied to all branches and you need not set a password for each branch that contains the dataset. If you want to use different passwords, then you can create a different dataset by cloning the dataset that you want.

See Managing an encrypted dataset.

Rational Test Automation Server now provides support for running browser-based tests by using the in-built Chrome and Edge browsers after you accept the license terms for usage. If you do not accept the license terms at the time of signing in or later, tests that use these browsers fail to run successfully.

See Management of third-party licenses.

You can now run an AFT Suite, which contains mobile or Web UI tests on a device, emulator, or simulator that is connected to an agent of a device cloud. You must enter the details of the agent or device cloud as variables while you configure a run of the AFT Suite.

See Configuring an AFT Suite to run on a mobile device by using variables.

You can now select or create a project to override the project that is configured for a cloud credential when you want to run a mobile test, Web UI test, Compound test, or an AFT Suite. The tests run on mobile devices that are connected to a mobile device cloud.

See Configuring an AFT Suite to run on a mobile device by using a cloud credential, Configuring a run of a Compound Test that contains mobile tests to run by using a cloud credential, or Configuring a run of a Compound Test that contains Web UI tests to run by using a cloud credential.

After you configure Jira as a change management system on Rational Test Automation Server, you can now add the test reports or test log to the Jira issue that you create for a test result. You can then view the attached reports or log from your project in Jira.

See Creating Jira issues for the test results.

You can now view the overall statistics and time-series statistics in Grafana by using queries for the test logs that are generated in Rational Test Automation Server.

See Viewing test results data in Grafana.

The display of the events in the Web UI or Functional test log is enhanced. Previously, the events were displayed under the UIScript node and placed under the Test node, which did not represent the correct hierarchy.

Now, the events are placed under the Test node and the UIScript node is no longer displayed, thus displaying the correct hierarchy of the events in the test log.

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 cloud credentials.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can now run tests or resources that are contained in your project on Rational Test Automation Server as a GitHub Action from a Git repository.

See Configuration of test runs in a GitHub Actions Workflow.

You can now run Selenium tests that are within a Maven project from Rational Test Automation Server.

You must commit the Maven project as a pom.xml to a Git repository. After you add the Git repository to your project on Rational Test Automation Server, you can configure a run of the Selenium test from the Execution page.

See Configuring a run of a Selenium test.

You can now configure an IBM Rational Integration Tester Agent to register with a team space in Rational Test Automation Server by using the server hostname, team space name, and your offline token. When you start the virtual services, you can select the Rational Integration Tester agent as the location and not select the Kubernetes cluster.

See Management of API agents.

You can now create Rational ClearQuest work items for the tests that ran on Rational Test Automation Server, after you configure Rational ClearQuest as a change management system on Rational Test Automation Server.

When you use Atlassian Jira as a change management system on Rational Test Automation Server and you use Xray as the test management application in Jira, you can now integrate Xray with Rational Test Automation Server. With this integration, you can export the test results of the tests that run on Rational Test Automation Server to an issue in your Jira Xray project. You can then view and use the test results in your project in Jira.

See Integration with Xray test management for Jira.

You can now add Azure DevOps as a change management system on Rational Test Automation Server, if you use Azure DevOps to create and monitor defects or bugs, issues, or other work items. After you configure Azure DevOps on Rational Test Automation Server, you can create work items for the test runs from Rational Test Automation Server and view the created work items on Azure DevOps by clicking the links within Rational Test Automation Server.

See Configuration of Azure DevOps as a change management.

You can now create HCL Compass records for the tests that you run on Rational Test Automation Server, after you configure the HCL Compass server as a change management system on Rational Test Automation Server.

See Configuration of DevOps Plan as a change management.

When you configured Atlassian Jira as a change management system on Rational Test Automation Server, you were able to copy the public and consumer keys in a single action. However, it was difficult to differentiate the keys when you pasted them in the individual fields on the Jira server configuration page. You can now copy the public and consumer keys separately and use them to configure the Jira server.

Previously, you were able to create defects only on tests that you ran on Rational Test Automation Server. You can now create defects in the change management system configured in your project on tests that are run by other project members too.

Previously, you were able to publish the changes made to the component associations with test resources in the system model from the Author > Changes page. You can now review and publish the association or dissociation changes of test resources with components in a system model from the System Model page. You can use the icon on the System Model page to publish the association changes.

The support to install Jaeger during the installation of Rational Test Automation Server is removed.

You can now run the supported test resources on remote Kubernetes clusters that you register with a team space on Rational Test Automation Server and add the Kubernetes cluster to your project in the team space.

You can select the remote cluster as a location to run the tests when you configure a run.

You can edit the configurations of a cluster, remove a cluster from a project, or unregister the cluster from a team space.

See Management of remote Kubernetes clusters.

When you want to create or edit datasets or resources that are associated with components in a system model, you must now create an Edit branch, which is a temporary branch that will contain these until the time you commit or publish these to a branch in the project repository or the team space repository.

You can now schedule recurring test runs on Rational Test Automation Server.

You can run these tests from the Azure DevOps, IBM Engineering Test Management, Jenkins, and IBM UrbanCode™ Deploy.

When you run tests from Azure DevOps Pipeline by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension, you can now store the JUnit report that is generated for the test in the XML format.

See Running DevOps Test Hub tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline.

You can now install Rational Test Automation Server on Azure Kubernetes Service that has a Kubernetes environment to run functional, integration, and performance tests.

As a system administrator or team space owner, you can now view or hide the details of the License Server on the License Configuration page.

Rational Test Automation Server now provides the capability to publish a dataset subsequent to publications from other users when the changes made to the datasets do not conflict with the changes made by the other users.

You can now view the load test profile details for the Schedules that you added in Rational Performance Tester in the Description column on the Author > Tests page. You can also edit the load test profile details if you do not want to run the Schedules with the configured profile.

You can now add notes to a test result and group these notes into a discussion in the Details panel on the Results page. You can also perform a search for specific content in the notes.

Previously, you were able to export the queries that you created from Rational Test Automation Server as a curl command. You can now use the Export option to export the queries to Shell, Curl, or PowerShell scripts. You can now select the script, the output format, and the number of results that are returned by the query.

Previously, the test log displayed all the activities that were captured for a test run and viewing the essential information was tedious. You can now select a view that filters the activities that you might be interested in as a tester. You can however, view all the activities that are captured for a test run by switching off the filter.

The Test Log page now displays the view correctly when you return to the page after viewing another page on the server UI. You can also use an option on the UI to view the test log list.

You can now view the attachments such as images, documents, PDFs, scripts, json or xml files, that are captured by the test log. You can view the attachments that are supported for display in a web browser. You can also copy or download the attachments to your computer.

After you run a test, you can view the calendar time and the duration for each of the test steps from the test log.

Previously, you were able to run test assets that were in your project on Rational Test Automation Server from the integrated applications by using the server plugins. You can now run or start instances of virtual service resources that are in your project on Rational Test Automation Server from integrated applications such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and IBM UrbanCode Deploy.

Previously, you were able to add individual Git repositories one at a time to your project on Rational Test Automation Server.

Now, you can add multiple repositories simultaneously that are contained in the same repository domain.

See Adding repositories to a server project.

Previously,you were able to configure and run Suites, Compound Tests, or Schedules on Rational Test Automation Server. Now, you can configure and run individual test assets such as an API test, a Functional test, or Performance test.

See Test run configurations.

The Rational Test Automation Server Jenkins plugins are enhanced so that you can now run tests as a job in a Jenkins Pipeline project.

Jira server administrator can now configure additional fields as Required fields in the project on the Jira server to be displayed in the Raise defect in Jira window while creating a defect from Rational Test Automation Server.

See Creating Jira issues for the test results.

You can create queries to retrieve monitoring usage data that is collected for a time period during a test run.

See Collecting and viewing resource monitoring usage data, Configuring a test, Viewing resource monitoring usage data, and Creating queries for resource monitoring usage data.

When a test run is complete, a test log report is generated for the tests which are configured to collect test logs data. The test log contains details about the events in the tests and their properties. See Test logs.

You can now integrate Rational Test Automation Server with IBM Engineering Test Management to run the test assets in a project in your team space from Engineering Test Management. After the tests run, you can view the results on the Results page. See Integration with IBM Engineering Test Management.

If your OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) cluster is within a restricted network with no access to the internet, you can now install Rational Test Automation Server on such OCP clusters by using an air-gapped environment. See Installing the DevOps Test Hub on IBM Red Hat OpenShift in an air-gapped environment.

Previously, Rational Test Automation Server supported only one logical partition as the initial team space. Now, you can create and maintain multiple team spaces in Rational Test Automation Server. The initial team space is available for all licensed users of Rational Test Automation Server before you create any other team space.

See Team space overview.

Now, you can configure any branch in a repository as the default branch in a team space.

After you associate virtual services with components in the System Model page, you can then navigate to the Resources or Instances page to either start an instance or stop a running instance.

See Viewing resources that are associated with components.

After you start an instance of the virtual services that are associated with components in the System Model page, you can then navigate to the Instances page to either view the running instance or stop a running instance. You can also view the components that are associated with running instances of virtual services from the Instances page.

See Viewing running instances of virtual services.

A new licensing option, Concurrent Virtual Services, is required when you want to run an instance of a virtual service on Rational Test Automation Server.

See DevOps Test Hub licensing information.

After you have associated virtual services with components in the System Model and started instances, you can view the instances that are associated with the components from the Instances page. You can also filter the view to display running instances by using components as a criteria in the filters.

You can now hide the virtual service instances that are stopped or those that failed, from the display on the virtual service Instances page via a single button.

See Viewing running instances of virtual services.

You can now stop multiple or all running instances of virtual services from the Instances page.

See Stopping virtual services.

You can now navigate to the Progress page from the Execution page to view the runs that were started, scheduled, or completed by clicking the Show in the Progress page icon that is enabled for the specific test asset.

See Viewing the state of test assets.

You can now stop multiple or all running test assets from the Progress page. You can also cancel multiple or all scheduled runs of test assets from the Progress page.

See Stopping test runs or Canceling scheduled test runs.

As a team space owner, you can define resource monitoring sources in the team space so that they can be shared between multiple projects in the team space. During a performance schedule execution with resource monitoring labels, the sources defined in a team space are collected with the sources that are defined in a project whenever they match the provided labels. As a user of a team space, you can use the resource monitoring sources that are defined in the team space.

When you install static agents and add the agents to your project on Rational Test Automation Server, the agents based on the capabilities that match with the agent specified in the test assets are listed for an override. The agents with the best matching capabilities are listed on the top followed by other agents with mismatched capabilities.

Rational Test Automation Server is now provisioned to display an initial Team Space, which is a logical partition of Rational Test Automation Server.

The operations that you managed at the server level can now be performed at the Team Space level. You can now configure licenses or an SMTP server, create projects, register the remote agents, dockers, or intercepts within a Team Space. See Team space overview.

You can create a system model to view the logical representation of any application under test in a Team Space. The system modeling is a Tech Preview feature.

You can configure a Team Space repository, which is different from the project repository, to save the system model.

You can create components that represent different types of assets and associate the components by defining the relationship between the components. You can also create child components for components. You can use these concepts to build a system model and view the model. You can then publish the system model to the Team Space repository.

You can also associate the virtual services in a project repository with components of the system model. From the associated component, you can view and run the virtual services.

See System modeling.

You can now view the virtual service resources that are in your project repositories from the Resources page and then configure a run of the virtual service. Working with virtual services is a Tech Preview feature.

After you start a virtual service, the running instances can be viewed from both the Resources page and Instances page.

See Management of virtualized services.

Starting from 10.1.3, stubs are not displayed on the Execution page to start them nor are they displayed on the Progress page after they are started. Stubs must be started from the Virtualization > Resources page and stubs that are running can be viewed from the Virtualization > Instances page.

See Management of virtualized services.

When you install static agents V10.1.2 and add the agents to your project on Rational Test Automation Server, Rational Test Automation Server determines and then displays the capabilities of the agents. Further, Rational Test Automation Server compares the capabilities of the agents with the required capabilities specified for the agent in the test assets and automatically selects the most suitable agent for an override. You can either proceed with running the test on the agent selected or select an agent from the agents displayed that have the same capabilities. See Adding a performance agent to a project.

When you install static agents V10.1.3 and register them with Rational Test Automation Server, you can add, view, edit, or delete the capabilities of static agents. See Working with the capabilities of a performance agent.

You can now quickly add your comments to provide your feedback about the documentation for Rational Test Automation Server by posting to a product forum. To add your comments as feedback, you must first register at IBM Support. Your login information along with your comments are governed by the privacy policy of IBM. By commenting, you accept the terms of use of IBM.

You can now install Rational Test Automation Server on Ubuntu (using k3s) platform. See Installation of DevOps Test Hub on Ubuntu.

If you are an administrator, the Configure license option enables you to change the configuration values such as the value of IBM Common License Key Server. An administrator can also add, remove, or replace prioritized users.

The repositories are refreshed automatically at regular intervals to ensure that each repository is in synchronization with the remote repository. You can also trigger the refresh activity manually for a repository to fetch the changes instantly. See Refreshing repositories manually.

You can now create a webhook for a repository in Git server. For each push event in the Git server, the webhook notifies Rational Test Automation Server to trigger the refresh activity to pull the latest changes to the server repository. See Creating webhooks.

Previously, you were able to view the details about the agents. You can now view and ascertain the system and application capabilities of all agents that are registered with Rational Test Automation Server. With the information presented, you can make informed decisions about selecting an agent for running tests from Rational Test Automation Server. See Adding a performance agent to a project.

You can now choose whether to receive in-app, email, or both notifications for each notification channel. By default in-app notifications are enabled. The notifications are about tasks that need completion from users or for information purposes. See Managing email notifications.

As an administrator, you can now set up an SMTP email server to send email notifications. The notifications are about tasks that need completion from the users or for information purposes. See Configuring an SMTP server to manage email notifications.

You can now use the Rational Test Workbench extension to establish a trusted and secure connection between Azure DevOps Server and Rational Test Automation Server to run the Rational Test Automation Server tests from the Azure DevOps Server. See Integration with Azure DevOps.

You can now use the Rational Test Automation Server Jenkins plugin to establish a trusted and secure connection between the Jenkins server and Rational Test Automation Server to run the Rational Test Automation Server tests from the Jenkins server. See Integration with Jenkins.

You can now use the Rational Test Automation Server UCD plugin to establish a trusted and secure connection between the UCD server and Rational Test Automation Server to run the Rational Test Automation Server tests from the UCD server. See Integration with IBM DevOps Deploy.

Rational Test Automation Server is now integrated with Jira software, as a result, you can create a defect in Jira from the Rational Test Automation Server UI. See Configuration of Atlassian Jira as a change management.

You can now find system requirements information about hardware and software compatibility in this documentation. For more information, see System Requirements for DevOps Test Hub 2025.12 (11.0.7).

You can now upgrade to the latest version of Rational Test Automation Server on the Red Hat OpenShift platform by using the helm upgrade command from 10.1.0. See DevOps Test Hub upgrade methods.

You can now configure a run for a Compound Test that contains mobile tests and then run the Compound Test on Rational Test Automation Server. See Configuring a run of a Compound Test that contains mobile tests to run by using variables.

Now in the Execution dialog, the Resource Monitoring tab displays the settings related to the Resource Monitoring sources and labels as they were set in the performance schedule. This information is helpful to decide whether you want to override them with the Resource Monitoring sources that are available in your Server project, or not. See Controlling resource monitoring sources in a schedule.

Previously, you specified the short name of a service that you wanted to virtualize as the host for the HTTP transport and specified the namespace in the recording settings for an Istio proxy. For example, to record the reviews service that had an FQDN of reviews.default.svc.cluster.local the host for the HTTP transport to be specified was reviews, and the namespace to be specified for the Istio Proxy was default. However, Istio routing in Rational Test Automation Server only uses the host name and port to generate the routing rule and for stubbing. Therefore, the host name must contain the namespace so that Rational Test Automation Server can correctly identify the service that is being stubbed.

Now, you can enable Rational Test Automation Server to use the namespaces that you want by providing the namespaces at the time of the installation of the server software.

You can now save a copy of a dataset in a different folder or make a copy with a different name, by using the Save As option.

See Management of datasets.

See Installation of DevOps Test Hub.

You can purchase floating licenses for Rational Test Automation Server and install the licenses on IBM Rational License Key Server. The administrator must configure the purchased floating licenses in Rational Test Automation Server.

For more information, see DevOps Test Hub licensing information.

You can back up and restore the user data in Rational Test Automation Server V10.1.0. You can also migrate the backed-up user data from the previous versions of Rational Test Automation Server to Rational Test Automation Server V10.1.0.

For more information, see Backup and restoration of the DevOps Test Hub data.

You can now select an agent added to your project on Rational Test Automation Server to override the agent configured in the AFT XML file in the test asset.

You can now select either the current or previous versions of the test resources that you want to run while you are configuring the test run.

You can now reset the settings you configured for a test run when you are either initiating or repeating the test run. For more information, see Resetting the configuration settings for a test run.

You can now, run an HTML test as a compound test on Rational Test Automation Server and choose to override the configured browser while configuring the test.

For more information, see Configuring a run of a Compound Test that contains HTML tests.

Now, test logs are delivered in a Jaeger format by default for executed compound tests and schedules. You can still set a Program Argument to re-enable the traditional test log format when you run the tests.

For more information, see Test results and reports.

From the Results view, you can re-execute a test with the same parameters as the ones that you previously set for the previous test run. You can also re-execute multiple tests at a time with the same parameters as the initial ones.

For more information, see Re-executing tests from results.

Now you can use label matching to control what Resource Monitoring sources are collected during the execution of a Performance schedule.

For more information, see Controlling resource monitoring sources in a schedule.

A Unified Report is generated as a result of a functional test execution.

For more information, see Test results and reports.

Now the Resource Monitoring service can query metrics from a target monitored by a running Prometheus server with default or customized queries.

For more information, see Monitoring metrics collected by a Prometheus server.

The Resource Monitoring service can scrap metrics exposed by an OpenMetrics exporter through metric counters.

For more information, see Monitoring metrics exposed by an OpenMetrics exporter.

In earlier versions, branch selection was configured on the Repositories page and applied globally to all users. Now, each user is presented with a Branch field that lists all the branches of the repositories added to your project. The list is available in the Execution, Datasets and Overview pages Rational Test Automation Server. For more information, see Selecting the global branch in a project.

Members with the Tester role assigned in a project, can now create secrets collections.

For more information, see Protecting API test assets by using secrets.

You can now add a repository with multiple folders to a single project. With this improvement, each project is now restricted to a single copy of a given repository.

You can now integrate Rational Test Automation Server with Azure DevOps by using the Rational Test Workbench extension to run tests as tasks in Azure DevOps pipelines.

For more information, see Integration with Azure DevOps.

You can now integrate Rational Test Automation Server with IBM UrbanCode Deploy by using the Rational Test Automation Server UCD plugin to run tests on the UCD server.

For more information, see Integration with IBM DevOps Deploy.

You can now run stubs that you create in Rational Integration Tester, from the Execution page on Rational Test Automation Server. You can run IBM WebSphere® MQ stubs and HTTP stubs on Rational Test Automation Server.

For more information, see Configuring a run of a virtual service.

After you run stubs on Rational Test Automation Server, you can view the stub usage statistics from the Stub Usage page. For more information, see Viewing usage statistics of virtual services.

You can view the details of the intercepts, proxies, or stubs with routing rules defined that are connected to Rational Test Automation Server, from the Routing Rules page. For more information, see Viewing routing rules of the virtual services.

Excel Data Sources defined in Rational Integration Tester projects can now be used as Datasets in your Rational Test Automation Server projects. Note that Excel Data Sources that define a specific worksheet to use are ignored.