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Test Automation Server

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NGINX Ingress Controller Support for RTAS in AKS

RTAS support for AKS is currently provided with Emissary Ingress which required additional CRDs to be installed at the cluster level. Security team advising to use NGINX Ingress controller as a standard since the hardening for AKS can be done as w...
about 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Not under 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 Installation for RHEL

Rational Test Automation Server installation type has been changed from physical machine ways to containerized type and we have only two types as of now 1. Openshift Containerized2. Ubuntu K3S We are currently looking for RHEL K3S type of installa...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Not under 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

RTAS - Selenium execution support

We would like to be able to run Selenium tests from the RTAS. We assume some example workspace containing Selenium and related execution might be sufficient.
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 1 Not under consideration

Implement CICS virtualization to Rational Test Automation Server

Mainframe customers need this capability. Without this capability, mainframe customers will not look at RTAS
almost 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 2 Future consideration

RTAS installation without default storage class

RTAS 10.1.3 installation is not possible in OpenShift cluster where is not set default storage class. We are not able to set the default storage class. The only possibility for us is to add storageClassName parameter to statefulsets definition fil...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Test Automation Server 1 Functionality already exists

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