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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.
Getting started with the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective
In this article, you will learn the fundamental concepts of the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective, such as recording a test, adding a verification point, abstracting data by using dataset, adding a loop, running a test and a compound test, and viewing test results.

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 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.
- Getting started with the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective
  In this article, you will learn the fundamental concepts of the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective, such as recording a test, adding a verification point, abstracting data by using dataset, adding a loop, running a test and a compound test, and viewing test results.
  - Task flow for testing web applications
    The diagrams in this topic shows the standard task and advanced work flows for testing the web applications in 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.

Getting started with the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective

In this article, you will learn the fundamental concepts of the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective, such as recording a test, adding a verification point, abstracting data by using dataset, adding a loop, running a test and a compound test, and viewing test results.

Introduction

Functional testing is about validating the functionality of the application under test. This validation is done by emulating user scenarios through the application's user interface. In a functional test, all of the user interactions, user inputs, and application behavior are recorded, and then a robust test is generated.

With the Rational® Functional Tester 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.

A web application includes many user scenarios. For example, on an e-commerce website many users only browse the products, some of the users sign in and add products to the cart, and a few of them purchase the products and sign out of the web site. Each of these activities is a user scenario that can be converted to a test scenario by using the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective.

In this Getting Started guide, you will learn how to use the tool to record a test scenario on the web application and generate the test, modify the test script, run the test, and view results. For this Getting Started guide, you will use <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software">www.ibm.com/software</a> as the application under test.IF WE HAVE TO CHANGE THIS IT WILL REQUIRED A LOT OF WORK.

Assumptions

The Getting Started guide assumes that you have installed Rational® Functional Tester 9.2 or newer. For information about the supported platforms, see the <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/rtw#othertab1" target="_blank">System Requirements</a> page. GET LINK FROM NANDA. For information about product installation, see the Installing</a>.

Be sure to start Rational® Functional Tester on a new workspace.