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Administrator guide
Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
Integrations in Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
Testing with Rational® Team Concert™
IBM® Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Rational Team Concert™. You can manage functional test assets by using the Jazz™ source control management that the Jazz Eclipse Client provides. You must have a compatible version of Rational Team Concert server set up to use the Jazz source control management.

Administrator guide
Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
- Installing
  In this section, you will learn about two ways to install the product. In the first approach, you use an executable file to directly install the product in an easy manner. In the second approach, you download and install IBM® Installation Manager and then use that tool to install the product.
- Starting Rational® Functional Tester from the command line
  You can start Rational® Functional Tester from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Integrations in Web UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use ant to run functional tests from the command line. Starting with version 2.0 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously. Version 2.0 of the ant plugin is supported in Rational® Functional Tester 9.2 and newer.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps for Functional tests
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in Rational® Functional Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Functional Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - Testing with Cucumber
    Starting with Rational® Functional Tester 9.2, you can take advantage of Cucumber integration to create, annotate, and run functional test scripts that can be easily understood by all members of the team.
  - Integrating and running Functional Test scripts in Micro Focus Application Life Cycle Management
    To obtain test result details, you can integrate and run Functional Test scripts in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management by using a ready-made template available in the Rational® Functional Tester installation directory.
  - Testing with Engineering Test Management
    Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from Rational Functional Tester.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the Rational® Functional Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from V9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
  - Testing with Rational® ClearCase®
    As you develop your Rational® Functional Tester test scripts and the supporting files that accompany those scripts, you can use Rational ClearCase® as your software configuration management system to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
  - Testing with Rational® Team Concert™
    IBM® Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Rational Team Concert™. You can manage functional test assets by using the Jazz™ source control management that the Jazz Eclipse Client provides. You must have a compatible version of Rational Team Concert server set up to use the Jazz source control management.
    - Rational Team Concert
      You can use IBM® Rational Team Concert as your software configuration management system to maintain functional test assets.
  - Testing with Tivoli Composite Application Manager
    Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager. You can schedule the interval at which the application manager agent runs to track the response time and generate logs using Rational Functional Tester scripts.
  - Testing with UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can run functional test scripts remotely with the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester plug-in for UrbanCode™ Deploy.

Testing with Rational® Team Concert™

IBM® Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM® Rational® Team Concert™. You can manage functional test assets by using the Jazz™ source control management that the Jazz Eclipse Client provides. You must have a compatible version of Rational® Team Concert™ server set up to use the Jazz source control management.

You can use IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ to connect to compatible Jazz servers, including IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ servers and Rational® Quality Manager servers.

Use this feature to do these tasks:

Access Rational® Team Concert™ and Rational® Quality Manager work items
Manage functional test assets by using Jazz source control management.

The client version and server version of Rational® Team Concert™ must match. See the Rational® Team Concert™ information center to learn more about server and client version compatibility. To access Jazz work items, use the Work Items view in the Work Items perspective. To switch to the Work Items perspective, click Window > Open Perspective > Work Items.

To manage functional test assets using Rational® Team Concert™, you must install Rational® Team Concert™ in the same package group as Rational® Functional Tester.