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.

The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for setting up IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

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.

With the UI Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for web applications.

With the Functional Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for native or hybrid applications.

You can run 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.

You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the UI Test perspective in Rational® Functional Tester.

You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the Functional Test perspective in Rational® Functional Tester.

The sample functional test project is created using the first few lessons of the "Create a functional test" tutorial . You can look at the test assets while you do the tutorial or after you complete it.

This is a sample functional test project that contains various functional test scripts for testing an HTML application. In this sample project, the IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ web client is used as an application under test.

Functional testing proxy SDK samples are simple examples of proxy source code and applications under test (AUT).

You can find information about the installation of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

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.

You can start Rational® Functional Tester from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.

In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.

In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.

When you develop web applications, Windows-based applications, or mobile applications, you can use IBM® Rational® Functional Tester to create functional tests for these applications. You must first record the tests and then use Rational Functional Tester to run the tests before you can view the test results.

When you develop Java, HTML, or Terminal-based applications, you can use IBM® Rational® Functional Tester to create traditional functional tests for these applications. You must first record the tests and then use Rational Functional Tester to run the tests before you can view the test results.

You can use custom code to extend the default Web UI testing capabilities. You can write custom Java™ code and call the code from the test. You can also specify that results from the tests that are affected by your custom code to be included in reports.

You can use custom code to extend the default functional testing capabilities. You can write custom code and call the code from the test. You can also specify that results from the tests that are affected by your custom code to be included in reports.

Rational® Functional Tester contains a set of pre-releases that enable you to test various experimental features. These experimental features, while still in progress, are introduced early in the release to seek your feedback on its overall functionality and performance. You can play around with these capabilities before they are made available and supported as a general feature in an upcoming release.

When you create Web UI, mobile, or Windows tests, you must configure the play back of the recorded tests as test runs from the UI Test perspective before you can view their test results.

When you created functional tests, you must configure the run of the recorded functional tests from the Functional Test perspective before you can view the test results.

The test result indicate the quality of the application under test. There could be different stakeholders to the application who do not have the product installed but want to check the quality of application. You, as the user of the product, can publish the test result to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server so that others can view it from the web browser.

If you have a single test result or multiple test results that are not published to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you can publish a single or all of them simultaneously.

Unified reports in Rational® Functional Tester provide a detailed overview of the test results. Unified reports also provide an extensive user interface that you can use to analyze or apply filters on the test results.

In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Web UI Test perspective.

In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Functional Test perspective.

You can find information about the issues or problems that you might encounter while working with Rational® Functional Tester in the UI Test perspective. Details about issues, their causes and the resolutions that you can apply to fix the issues are described.

In this section, you will learn how to troubleshoot the tests in the Functional Test perspective.

In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Web UI Test perspective.

In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.

This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.