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Test Automation Server

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Implement CICS virtualization to Rational Test Automation Server

Mainframe customers need this capability. Without this capability, mainframe customers will not look at RTAS
11 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Future consideration

RTAS Installation with No-Cluster Admin

RTAS installation in Openshift requires Cluster Admin rights and this permission is not possible for a organization using Openshift platform with a multi-tenant topology Requiring a Cluster Admin for installation of the product is not possible sin...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 0 Future consideration

RTAS Support for Openshift DR

RTAS is currently not supporting the Disaster Recovery scenarios in Openshift installation type and partially support via Velero plugin installation in Openshift. However, the PVC's backup and restoring it to a different namespace is quite tedious...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 0 Future consideration

Monitoring not linked to an RTAS project

It takes a lot of time to create security tokens for each RTAS project (Rational Tester Automation Server)
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 1 Future consideration

RTAS / RTW should have "intelligent " queuing system to handle testing triggers from multiple "Jenkins" or CI/CD server

customer have 20 to 30 Jenkins pipelines, they are currently missing the WoW factor from testing product in hadling it with in the current license model.Their expectations , is 1. RTW / RTAS executions should be used 24/7 . running round the clock...
almost 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Future consideration

Parallel execution and re-rerun of failed tests in suite

We don't have a mechanism to execute tests in a test suite in parallel with maven or ant, as RIT doesnt support it. We don't have any automated approach which RIT provides to re-run the failures after test execution which is a big blocker for us w...
about 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 4 Future consideration

Browser-based RIT

Either this, or RIT on linux in docker container
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Future consideration

Simplify SW repository structure

Create 2 repositories, 1 for all client installation and 1 for all server-side installation. Call them "IBM Test Client.zip" and "IBM Test Server.zip". The client contains ALL RTW-client software. The server contains RTCP, proxy, RTVS, exits etc. ...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 1 Future consideration