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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integrations in UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
Integration with Engineering Test Management
You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Functional Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter
You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter from command-line interface.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation
  You can find information about the installation of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
- License management
  Licensing for your installed IBM® software and customized packages is administered through the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager. The Manage Licenses wizard displays license information for each installed package.
- 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 UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugins that are required to integrate Jenkins, Ant, , and IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy with Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use Ant to run compound tests and Web UI tests from the command-line interface.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps for UI 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.
  - EGit integration
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating IBM® Rational® Functional Tester with Engineering Workflow Management, formerly known as Rational Team Concert™ eclipse client.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Functional Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
    - Configuring the ETM adapter
      You must configure the Engineering Test Management adapter to establish a successful connection between Rational® Functional Tester and Engineering Test Management.
    - Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter
      You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter from command-line interface.
    - Connecting and disconnecting the ETM adapter from the GUI mode
      You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Starting and stopping the ETM adapter from the command line
      You can use the command-line interface to start, stop, and view activities of the Engineering Test Management adapter that you configured in Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Importing test assets in to ETM
      You can import the functional tests into Engineering Test Management by using an adapter.
    - Testing shared assets
      You can make test projects and assets shareable in Rational® Quality Manager. By sharing assets, any computer with your product, that is connected to Rational Quality Manager can execute a test or schedule.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the Rational® Functional Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, 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).
  - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate Rational® Functional Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
  - Integration with Rational® Integration Tester
    You can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to run integration tests from Rational Functional Tester. You can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from Rational Functional Tester by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Testing with UrbanCode Deploy
    With the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester plugin for IBM UrbanCode™ Deploy, you can automate the execution of tests and compound tests.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.

Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter

You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter from command-line interface.

About this task

If the Use resources that are local to a test machine option is set in Engineering Test Management, then the WORKSPACE_DIR must be set to the same workspace where your test assets are located.

Procedure

Locate the adapter.config file in the product_install_dir\RPT-RST_RQMAdapter\config\ directory.
Where product_install_dir is the directory where Rational® Functional Tester is installed.
For example, C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP.
Edit the WORKSPACE_DIR variable in the adapter.config file to point to the same test workspace that you want the adapter to use.

For example, WORKSPACE_DIR= C:\Users\username\IBM\rationalsdp\my_adapter_workspace.

Results

You have configured the workspace directory of the adapter.

What to do next

You can start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter from command-line interface.