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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.
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.
Pulling the changes from the remote Git repository
You must make your local repository up-to-date by pulling the latest changes in the remote Git repository before you committ and push your updated test assets to the Git repository.

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.
    - Importing test assets from the remote Git repository
      You can import the test assets from the remote Git repository to Rational® Functional Tester and run it to test the performance of the application.
    - Pulling the changes from the remote Git repository
      You must make your local repository up-to-date by pulling the latest changes in the remote Git repository before you committ and push your updated test assets to the Git repository.
    - Publishing test assets to the remote Git repository
      When you create or update any test assets in Rational® Functional Tester, you can publish your changes to the remote Git repository. Therefore, when you publish test assets, other members in the project can use your test assets in their test run, if required.
    - Techniques for troubleshooting issues in EGit
      You might encounter issues while working with EGit in Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the information about certain issues and how to resolve them.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Pulling the changes from the remote Git repository

You must make your local repository up-to-date by pulling the latest changes in the remote Git repository before you committ and push your updated test assets to the Git repository.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Cloned the remote Git repository. For more information refer to the EGit User Guide documentation.
Ensured that any of your team members have updated the test assets and committed those files to the remote Git repository.

About this task

When you updated any of the test assets in your project, you might see merge conflicts errors while pulling the changes, if other members are also working on the same project.

Procedure

Open Rational® Functional Tester.
Go to Windows > Perspective > Open Perspective > Other.
The Open Perspective window is displayed.
Select the Git option from the list, and then click Open.
The Git perspective view is displayed.
Right-click the remote Git repository from the list, and then select Pull.

Results

You have pulled the new changes from the remote Git repository to your existing local Git repository.

What to do next

You can publish your changes to the remote Git repository. See Publishing test assets to the remote Git repository.