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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.
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.

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.
- 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.

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.

Procedure

Select File > NewWeb UI Test Project or Functional Test Project.
The Create a Project window opens.
In the Project Name field, type a name for the project.
Select Use default location.
Optional: Click Next and select the folders to create in the new project. These folders organize your files by asset (Tests, Results, and so on).
Click Finish.
After you click finish, you are prompted to record a test. You can create a test from a new recording or from an existing recording, or just click Cancel to create a test project without recording a test.