I’m sure it wasn’t like that when I first posted it, but hopefully it should be fixed now

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This topic describes how to set up communication between IBM® Rational Team Concert and IBM Rational Quality Manager so your users can create and track work items in Rational Team Concert using the Rational Quality Manager user interface.

Note: Before you begin, do the following:

Start the Rational Quality Manager server and then start Rational Quality Manager.
Start the Rational Team Concert Jazz™ Team Server then start the Admin Web UI.
Verify that you can log in to Rational Quality Manager from the machine hosting the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server. Likewise, verify that you can log in to the Rational Team Concert Admin Web UI from the machine hosting the Rational Quality Manager server.
To set up integration with Rational Quality Manager:
In Rational Quality Manager, request access to the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server.
In Rational Quality Manager, click Admin, and then click Jazz Server Administration.
Click Cross-Server Communication.
For the Title, type the name that you want to use to identify the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server.
For the Jazz Team Server URI, type a public URI that can be used to access the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server, for example, https://9.12.345.67:9443/jazz or https://rtc1:9443/jazz.
For the Root Services URI, verify the public URI that can be used to access root services on the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server, for example, https://9.12.345.67:9443/jazz/rootservices or https://rtc1:9443/jazz/rootservices.
For OAuth Secret, enter a code to be associated with the new OAuth consumer key of the server.
Note: In this step you do not enter the actual key; you enter a shorter phrase that will be associated with the actual key.
Re-type the OAuth Secret code phrase.
Click Trusted if you wish to designate the Jazz Team Server as a Truster consumer.
Trusted consumers will be able to share authorization with other trusted consumers and will not require user approval to access data.

Click Request Access.
The following message is displayed:

Authorize Provisional Key

The provisional key you requested needs to be authorized by an administrator on the other server: 9fa4a74348d94226bfdb64d40c82ce78

If you are an administrator on the “https://servername:9443/jazz” server, you can Grant access for the provisional key.
In the Rational Team Concert Admin Web UI, approve the request from Rational Quality Manager.
Click the Server tab and then click OAuth Consumer Management.
Under Authorize Provisional Keys, note the Provisional Key that Rational Quality Manager requested and then select Approve from the Authorized list.
Click Save.
In Rational Quality Manager, click Advanced Properties.
Search for the text public uri and enter the Rational Quality Manager server as the value for the com.ibm.team.repository.service.internal.RepositoryRemoteService property, for example, https://9.24.117.62:9443/jazz or https://rqm1:9443/jazz.
Click Save and then restart the Jazz Server.
Repeat Steps 3, 4, and 5 on the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server, entering the Rational Team Concert server URI as the value.
Set up the linkage between your Rational Quality Manager project and the Rational Team Concert project. After you set up this linkage, the work items that users create in Rational Quality Manager will be stored in the corresponding Rational Team Concert project area.
In Rational Quality Manager, click Admin, and then click Jazz Project Administration.
Click to open the project that you want to configure.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and in the Links section, click Add to link to a project on the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server.
The Add Link page opens along with a prompt to log in to a project area on the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server.

Type a user ID and password with Administrator privileges on the Jazz Team Server and click OK.
In the Add Link page select Tests as the Link Type.
Under Target: Server, you will see the name of the Title that you used for the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server in Step 1c.

Under Service Providers, you will see a list of projects on the Rational Team Concert Jazz Team Server.

Select a project and click Finish.
After you complete these steps, Rational Quality Manager users will be able to create and track work items that are saved in Rational Team Concert.

Thanks for your article

cheers

Prem

You can download a free trial version from the IBM website.

Once you have downloaded and installed RTF, the built in tutorials are a good place to get started as they cover all of the major features of the tool.

Good luck!

Matt

Thanks
Jayarama J

When people mention “Record and Playback” to me, I assume they are talking about the process of recording an automated test script and then without any modification, executing (or “playing”) that automated test script at a later date. Due to the fix values inserted into an automated test script when it is “recorded” this often leads to an automated test script that require more regular maintenance.

That said, in my experience this doesn’t mean that you should necessarily avoid the “record” feature or the “playback” feature of your automated testing tool. In fact, you can’t ignore the “playback” feature as this is how all automated test scripts are run, regardless of how they are created. I also caution people against completely avoiding the “record” feature of their tool for the reason that recorded automated test scripts are typically a mixture of good and bad code. With a bit of modification, we can keep the good bits and replace the bad bits. This approach can sometimes be quicker than writing an automated test script from scratch by hand.

So for me, recording isn’t necessarily bad, it’s often what people do with their automated test script once they’ve been recorded that leads them down the path of success or failure.

Yes, RFT has a rich API, but remember your automated test script will use that same API regardless of whether you type the commands into your script by hand or let the recorder enter them for you and then tweak the script once the recorder is complete. You can create a framework using the API, however, be careful not to spend too much time perfecting the framework and writing framework code. Remember you are testing to provide feedback about the quality of your application and a framework is mean to achieving that goal, not the goal itself, so by all means create a framework but only if the framework will help you achieve you goal of providing meaningful feedback.