Rational Test Automation Server GitHub Action

Rational Test provides software testing tools to support a DevOps approach: API testing, functional testing, UI testing, performance testing and service virtualization. It helps you automate and run tests earlier and more frequently to discover errors sooner - when they are less costly to fix.

This action enables the ability to run various tests from a Rational Test Automation Server project.

Usage

Prerequisites to run this action

Configure a self hosted runner on a suitable machine

1. The host machine will need to be able to access the OneTest Server that will be used to run tests.
2. Add a self-hosted runner at an appropriate level, ensure you have configured network access.
3. If you are using more than one runner assign it a suitable label and note this for later. OR
4. An instance of OneTest Server that can be accessed from the GitHub's hosted runners

Setup

In the repository you want to apply the action to

1. Create a folder named ".github/workflows" in the root.
2. Create a .yml file with any name, inside the ".github/workflows" folder based on the following example content:

name: Rational Test Automation Server

on: workflow_dispatch

jobs:
    OTS-Action:
        runs-on: self-hosted
        name: Rational Test Automation Server
        steps:
         - name: Execute Test
           uses: IBM/devopsauto-testserver-actions@main
           with:
            serverUrl: <https://myserver>
            offlineToken: <xxxxx>
            teamspace: <MyTeam>
            project: <MyProject>
            branch: <main>
            assetId: <yyyyyyy>

3. Update the parameterized items to refer to your server, project and tests (see parameter details below).
4. Depending on connectivity,

• If you have more than one hosted runner configured, then use its label as the argument for runs-on.
• If the OneTest Server is accessible from GitHub then use runs-on: ubuntu-latest

5. Push your updated yml file to the repository.
6. Go to the Actions section in the repository and select the workflow.
7. Click the Run workflow dropdown and the list of input boxes get displayed.

Required Parameters

• serverUrl URL of the Rational Test Automation Server where the tests are located. URL should be of the format - https://hostname
• offlineToken The offline user token for the corresponding Rational Test Automation Server
• teamspace Team Space when the project is based.
• project Project name where the test is.
• branch Name of the Git branch where the test is.
• assetId AssetId of the test file in Rational Test Automation Server.

Optional Parameters

• environment Test environment corresponding to the test. Mandatory to input the value if you want to run API tests.
• datasets Semicolon (;) delimited list of source:replacement datasets for the job to run. For example, dataset1:dataset2;dataset3:dataset4
• labels Labels to add to test results when the test run is complete. You can add multiple labels to a test result separated by a comma. For example, label1, label2.
• secretsCollection Secrets collection name if the test uses them.
• variables Variables corresponding to the test. The format is name_of_the_variable=value_of_the_variable. You can add multiple variables to the test run separated by a semicolon.

Troubleshooting

• No runner available: If you are using a self-hosted runnter, check that the runner still exists in GitHub, if the local agent has not connected to GitHub for a period of 14 days then it will be automatically removed.