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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.
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.

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.
  - 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.
    - Properties of Steps
      You must set the properties of steps to run the tests.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.

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.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Installed Rational® Functional Tester and IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy agent on the computer where the tests will be run.
Downloaded the Rational® Functional Tester UCD plugin RFT-WebUI-UCD-8.0 from the IBM WebSphere, Liberty & DevOps Community portal .
Installed IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy server and deploy the plugin on the server. For information, refer to the UrbanCode Deploy documentation.
Installed IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy Agent and connect it to IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy server. For more information refer to the UrbanCode Deploy documentation.
Ensured that Rational® Functional Tester is not running.
Ensured that all the devices are set to the passive mode and the playback-ready apk files are installed to initiate the mobile test runs.
Note:
- To run tests on Mac OS, you must add an environment variable that points to the installation directory of the product, for example, export TEST_WORKBENCH_HOME=/opt/IBM/SDP. For Windows™, this environment variable is already defined.

About this task

As a tester, you might have a large number of regression tests to run on the latest build of the product. Instead of manually running the tests on every new build, you can install the latest build on the IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy Agent computer and let IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy launch the tests for you.

After deploying the IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy plugin on the server, create the component and its processes, applications and its processes, the environments, and the resources. For information about how to create these different pieces, see IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy documentation.

Procedure

To create the workflow:

To create a workflow for the newly created component process, click the component process. The Tools view displays the available plugin steps.
From Rational Functional Tester Web UI > Run a Rational Functional Tester - Web UI test to the design space.
Specify the properties for the step. For information about the properties, see Properties of Steps.
After you configure the step properties, save the step by clicking Save.