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Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
The Web UI Test perspective
With the Web UI Test perspective, you can quickly create and run functional tests for the web applications. It gives you a recording and natural language scripting environment to test browser applications that use HTML5 and JQuery. You can test on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers.
Task flow: Standard WebUI Recording
The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for testing the WebUI applications using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Rational® Functional Tester overview
  Rational® Functional Tester is an object-oriented automated functional testing tool that tests HTML, including HTML 5, Java, Windows, .NET, Visual Basic, SAP, Silverlight, Eclipse, Siebel, Flex, Ajax, Dojo, GEF and PowerBuilder applications. With its ability to test HTML 5-based applications and UI frameworks, Rational Functional Tester 9.2 and newer also tests the user interface of Web applications on the desktop and on mobile devices.
- Setting up Rational® Functional Tester
  The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for setting up IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
- Creating a project
  The tests that you create, and the assets associated with the tests, reside in a project on your desktop. You can create the project separately, or you can simply record a test, which automatically creates a project named testproj.
- The Web UI Test perspective
  With the Web UI Test perspective, you can quickly create and run functional tests for the web applications. It gives you a recording and natural language scripting environment to test browser applications that use HTML5 and JQuery. You can test on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers.
  - Task flow: Standard WebUI Recording
    The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for testing the WebUI applications using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flow: Standard accelerated functional testing
    The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for the accelerated functional testing for WebUI applications using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flow: Advanced accelerated functional testing
    The diagram in this topic shows the advanced task flow for the accelerated functional testing for WebUI applications using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flows for testing mobile applications
    You can find information about the tasks that you must perform to test mobile applications such as Android and iOS applications.
  - Task flows for testing Windows desktop applications
    You can find information about the tasks that you must perform to test Windows desktop applications.
- Getting started in the Functional Test perspective
  With the Functional Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for native or hybrid applications.
- Task flow: Integrating Rational® Functional Tester and Rational® Integration Tester
  You can execute integration tests in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester by using IBM Rational Functional Tester Extension for Rational Integration Tester. In IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can create a compound test to run the integration tests by using agents.

Task flow: Standard WebUI Recording

The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for testing the WebUI applications using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

Although the diagram implies that each task is completed sequentially, you can do many of the tasks at the same time.

The diagram shows the standard task flow for testing WebUI applications using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.