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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 Engineering Test Management
Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from Rational Functional Tester.
Working with keywords
In Rational® Functional Tester, you can associate functional test scripts with the keywords that are created in IBM® Engineering Test Management.
Working with keywords in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester
Keywords are defined and created in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager. In IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can record a functional test script and then associate it with the keywords that are created in Engineering Test 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.
    - Configuring and running Rational Functional Tester adapter for Rational Quality Manager
      You can integrate Rational® Functional Tester with Rational Quality Manager by using an adapter. The adapter is available in the Rational Functional Tester installation directory. You can run the tests that you create by using Rational Functional Tester in Rational® Quality Manager after you configure and start the adapter.
    - Configuring and running the adapter using the command-line interface
      Integration with Rational® Functional Tester is implemented through the use of an adapter. The functional test adapter is installed by default when you install Rational Functional Tester. You can configure and start the adapter using the command-line interface.
    - Using the adapter to connect to Rational® Quality Manager through a proxy server
      You can use the adapter to connect to the Rational® Quality Manager server through a proxy server. You must configure the credentials for the proxy server from the command-line interface.
    - Handling inputs from Rational® Quality Manager in Rational® Functional Tester scripts
      If you use IBM® Rational® Quality Manager to execute functional test scripts, you can make Rational Quality Manager details available to the functional test script to be used during playback.
    - Working with keywords
      In Rational® Functional Tester, you can associate functional test scripts with the keywords that are created in IBM® Engineering Test Management.
      - Working with keywords in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester
        Keywords are defined and created in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager. In IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can record a functional test script and then associate it with the keywords that are created in Engineering Test Management.
      - Viewing keywords created in Engineering Test Management
        In Rational® Functional Tester, you can record and then associate functional test scripts with the keywords that are created in IBM® Rational Quality Manager. You can log on to the Rational Quality Manager to view keywords. You can play back the functional test script from Engineering Test Management.
      - Associating functional test scripts with the keywords
        You can automate an IBM® Rational® Quality Manager keyword by associating it with an IBM Rational Functional Tester script. You can either associate an existing functional test script with a given keyword, or record a new script against the keyword and then associate the script. You can see the steps of a keyword when you associate an automated script. After a keyword is automated, you can open and execute the automated script.
      - Keyword View
        The Rational® Functional Tester Keyword View displays the keywords. This view is displayed in the right pane of the Functional Test perspective.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Working with keywords in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester

Keywords are defined and created in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager. In IBM® Rational® Functional Tester, you can record a functional test script and then associate it with the keywords that are created in Engineering Test Management.

Learn more about keywords: Keywords are defined and created in Rational® Quality Manager. A keyword is a statement or group of statements that you can reuse in other test scripts. Keywords are typically composed of script steps that reflect reusable processes. You can automate keywords through the use of functional test scripts. For more information about keywords, see the Rational® Quality Manager Knowledge Center.

To work with keywords, you must log on to Rational® Quality Manager server. The keywords created in Rational® Quality Manager are displayed in the Rational® Functional Tester Keyword View. You can record a functional test script and associate it with an keyword.

After you associate the functional test scripts to the appropriate keywords, you can play back the functional test scripts that are associated with the keywords from Rational® Quality Manager.