IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality release notes for 10.0.0

Contents

• Description
• System requirements
• What's new in 10.0.0
• Installing the product
• Known problems
• Contacting IBM Rational Software Support

Description

The service testing capabilities of IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality automate the creation, execution and analysis of functional, regression and performance tests for SOAP-based web services, including support for Java Messagine Service (JMS), Websphere MQ, WebSphere Java MQ, and Microsoft .NET Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), as well as any service that produces XML, plain text, or binary data.

This release includes defect fixes and updates.

System requirements

For information about hardware and software compatibility for Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, see the Software requirements and Hardware requirements document.

What's new in 10.0.0

• IBM Rational Test Automation Server is a server-based application that integrates with the desktop clients to manage test projects, play back tests, and view results. For more information, see Rational Test Automation Server Overview.

• Starting from 10.0.0, you must have a standard license to work with the product.

• Support to publish test logs and statistical reports to the Rational Test Automation Server from both Rational Performance Tester and command-line interface. See Publishing test results to the server and Running a test or schedule from a command line.

• Support to add string values for a dataset in a browser-based CSV editor. As a result, you can set any row or data as the starting point for the test to select the values. See Managing datasets.

• Support for OpenJDK 8 with Open J9 instead of IBM Java.

  Note: If you have tests with smart card authentication, you can use any of the previous versions of Rational Performance Tester.

• Support to print the verdict and URL of the report in the console log for tests that ran from the command line. See Running a test or schedule from a command line.

Installing the product

You cannot upgrade Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality from a previous version to 10.0.0. You have to uninstall the existing version before installing 10.0.0.

For installation instructions, see Install the product software.

Known problems

• The known problems are documented in the download document. Select a download document from Fix list for Rational Performance Tester and Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality.
• Known problems are also documented in the form of individual tech notes in the Support Knowledge Base. For more information, see All tech notes for Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality.

For more information about resolved known problems in Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality 8.5.1 or later, see Resolved known problems.

Contacting IBM Rational Software Support

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

• For personalized support, including notifications of significant upgrades, subscribe at Product notification.

• Before you contact IBM Rational Software Support, gather the background information that you will need to describe your problem. When describing 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.