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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 Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
Integration with Azure DevOps for functional 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.

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.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional 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 UrbanCode™ Deploy with Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use ant to run functional tests from the command line. Starting with version 2.0 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps for functional 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.
    - Prerequisites for Azure DevOps Integration
      Before you integrate Azure DevOps with Rational® Functional Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension, you must have completed certain tasks.
    - Task flow for integrating Azure DevOps with Rational® Functional Tester
      The table shows the task flow for integrating Azure DevOps with Rational® Functional Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension. You must perform these tasks in sequence as listed in the following table. The table also provides you the links to the information about the tasks.
    - Installing the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension
      You must install the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension in your Azure DevOps organization before you use the extension to run tests for your application in an Azure DevOps pipeline. The IBM Rational Test Workbench extension supports running of tests created in Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Running functional tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
      After you create the tests in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester for the application that you are testing, and after you install the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension in your organization, you can run the tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
  - Testing with Cucumber
    Starting with Rational® Functional Tester 9.2, you can take advantage of Cucumber integration to create, annotate, and run functional test scripts that can be easily understood by all members of the team.
  - Integrating and running Functional Test scripts in Micro Focus Application Life Cycle Management
    To obtain test result details, you can integrate and run Functional Test scripts in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management by using a ready-made template available in the Rational® Functional Tester installation directory.
  - Testing with IBM® Engineering Test Management
    Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM® Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from Rational Functional Tester.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester - Functional Test to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting with v9.2, you can use the Maven plug-in to run Functional Test scripts. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM). You can use the Maven plug-in that is provided to run tests as part of your Maven build.
  - Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    IBM® Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational Team Concert). You can manage functional test assets by using the Jazz™ source control management that the Jazz Eclipse Client provides. You must have a compatible version of IBM Engineering Workflow Management server set up to use the Jazz source control management.
  - Testing with Tivoli Composite Application Manager
    Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager. You can schedule the interval at which the application manager agent runs to track the response time and generate logs using Rational Functional Tester scripts.
  - Testing with UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can run functional test scripts remotely with the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester - Functional Test plugin for UrbanCode™ Deploy.

Integration with Azure DevOps for functional 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.

Prerequisites

Before you integrate Azure DevOps with Rational® Functional Tester, you must have completed certain tasks. See Prerequisites for Azure DevOps Integration.

Overview

You can use the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that enables you to select any type of test created in Rational® Functional Tester that you can add to your task for the job in the Azure DevOps pipelines.