IBM Rational Integration Tester, Rational Test Virtualization Server, and Rational Performance Test Server release notes for 10.0.0

Read about new features, system requirements, installation, known issues, , and support for Rational® Integration Tester, Rational Test Virtualization Server ,Rational Performance Test Server 10.0.0.

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Description

IBM® Rational Test Workbench delivers end-to-end functional, regression, load, and integration testing to address the quality challenges of highly complex and integrated applications. This offering includes the following installable components:
  • Rational Integration Tester, a scripting-free environment for developing tests for SOA messaging and business process integration projects. Tests can be built by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return. You can also create virtual services to remove test dependencies and enable earlier testing. Virtual services can be deployed by Rational Test Virtualization Server to provide on-demand virtualized test environments that can support all phases of the test development lifecycle.
  • Rational Test Control Panel, a server-based web application that provides a central repository for virtualized services. With Rational Test Control Panel, you can use virtual services that are published by Rational Integration Tester to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in Rational Test Virtualization Server. It also contains technology-specific components that are used by Rational Integration Tester for recording SOA message conversations, HTTP(S) and JDBC traffic, and for monitoring middleware systems under test with minimal reconfiguration of client applications.

What’s new in 10.0.0

The following sections list the new features, enhancements or other changes made in 10.0.0.

Rational Test Automation Server

  • Rational Test Automation Server is a server-based application that integrates with the desktop clients to manage test projects, playback tests, and view results. See Rational Test Automation Server Overview.
  • The v10 Tech Preview support added in Rational Integration Tester 9.5 was removed. Rational Test Automation Server settings are now configured in the Server Settings tab of the Project Settings dialog box. All existing v10 Tech Preview settings will be lost. Sharing of reports is now done through Rational Test Automation Server. The previous settings to use Unified Reporting running alongside Rational Test Control Panel were removed.
  • The Unified Reporting and Resource monitoring features were moved from Rational Test Control Panel to Rational Test Automation Server. You can now choose to publish reports from Rational Integration Tester to your project on Rational Test Automation Server. For more information, see Publishing test results to Rational Test Automation Server. You can also manage the system resource monitors from Rational Test Automation Server. For more information, see Monitoring system resources.
  • Rational Integration Tester projects can be configured to access secrets from Rational Test Automation Server. Some of this configuration can be overridden when running Rational Integration Tester resources by using ANT, IntegrationTesterCmd, RunTests, Maven and the Rational Test Control Panel REST API. For more information, see Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Automation Server.

Rational Test Control Panel

  • The list of agents changed for a release was updated. See the Tools page of Rational Test Control Panel to see each tool and the version that it was last changed.
  • You can now stop the engine running on an agent from the Infrastructure dashboard in Rational Test Control Panel when you want to terminate a running stub that is using the engine.
  • To easily identify the engine used by a stub/project, a Process ID now displays in the Engines panel in the Infrastructure dashboard. For more information, see Viewing running agents.
  • You can do operations on the managed stubs from the Rational Integration Tester command-line. For more information, see Publish stubs, Start a stub, and Stop a stub in Managing stubs.

Integrations

Starting from 10.0.0 or later, you can use the menu from the Rational Integration Tester Architectural School perspective for the Logical View and Physical View to check out or check in the test assets. For more information, see Rational Integration Tester and Git.

Technologies

  • The Synchronization Wizard's Summary page now shows all information, warning and error messages that occurred during the synchronization. For more information, see Adding a synchronization source.
  • The Synchronization Wizard was enhanced with a new Authorizations page that shows when you add a RAML or OpenAPI 3.0 definition as a synchronization source. Using the Authorizations page, you can now configure the required security scheme settings of the synchronized transports. For more information, see Adding a RAML definition as a synchronization source and Adding an OpenAPI 3.0 definition as a synchronization source.
  • OpenID Connect Offline Access support can be enabled in the HTTP Transport. When enabled, an access token is requested from the Authorization Server and used in requests made over the transport. For more information, see configuring the Experimental tab in Creating physical web server resources.
  • When CICS is restarted, the CICS DPL agent reconnects automatically if CICS comes back up within the agent time out period. Any recording sessions that were in progress continue, and any stubs that were running still function.
  • Starting in release 10.0.0, Rational Integration Tester also captures attributes within user-defined folders in the RFH2 header. For more information, see WebSphere MQ message formats.
  • With the adoption of the OpenJDK™ 8 with OpenJ9 JRE the mapping between CipherSuites and IBM WebSphere MQ CipherSpecs has changed. This change requires the WebSphere MQ client libraries to include APAR IV66840 (shipped in WebSphere MQ V7.0.1.13, V7.1.0.7, V7.5.0.5, and V8.0.0.2 client libraries) to be used for SSL based communications.
  • An IBM IMS™ Connect transport now defaults to strict encryption as all other options result in attempts to use nonexistent cipher suites.

Other

  • The Tag name values are now sorted alphabetically in the Iterate Test Data action's Store tab. For more information about Iterate actions, see Iterate actions.
  • Deprecated features noted in Rational Integration Tester 9.5.0 related to the Rational Integration Tester Tools application, also known as the source control application were removed. Existing Rational Integration Tester projects that rely on deprecated features might no longer work.

System requirements

For system requirements specific to this release of Rational Test Workbench, see Software Product Compatibility Reports.

Installing Rational Integration Tester and Rational Test Control Panel 10.0.0

For information about the upgrade requirements, see: For instructions about installing, see:

Installing Rational Performance Test Server 10.0.0

For information about installation, see Installing Rational Performance Test Server.

Installing Rational Test Virtualization Server 10.0.0

For information about installation, see Installing Rational Test Virtualization Server.

Known problems

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

Table 1. Download documents and technotes
Product Download document Knowledge Base
Rational Integration Tester https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049967 http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/all_troubleshooting_links/rational/rational_test_workbench?productContext=-1242920191
Rational Test Virtualization Server https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049967 http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/all_troubleshooting_links/rational/rational_test_virtualization_server?productContext=-1234805781
Rational Performance Test Server https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049967 http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/product/rational/rational_performance_test_server?productContext=-1563869467
Note: Starting in 9.5 a single fix list document and a single download document is used for all products.

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 support

IBM support provides you with technical assistance.

For contact information and guidelines or reference materials that you will need when you require support, read the IBM Software Support Handbook. For personalized support, including notifications of significant upgrades, register at IBM support.

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Before you contact IBM support, gather the background information that you will need to describe your problem. When describing a problem to an IBM 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.
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