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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.
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.

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.
  - 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.

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.

Before you begin

Install Installation Manager.
Install Rational® Functional Tester.
Verify that you have a functional test residing within an Eclipse workspace on the computer where Rational® Functional Tester is installed.
Be sure ant is installed and added to the PATH environment variable.
Download the ant plugin for Rational® Functional Tester from Rational® Functional Tester Plugins and install Ant on to the computer where Rational® Functional Tester is installed.

Procedure

Extract the following files from the downloaded plugin:
- RFT-Ant-FunctionalTest-3.1.jar
- RFT-Ant-FunctionalTest.xml
- README.txt

Open the RFT-Ant-FunctionalTest.xml file and provide parameter values, as shown in the following example:

<ft name="test1" projectDir="C:\workspace\Project" scriptName="Script1" />

To run multiple tests, add additional <ft> tasks and provide details for each test.

The following table explains each parameter.


Parameter	Description
-name	Required. Name of the test.
- projectDir	Required. The fully qualified path to the Rational® Functional Tester project directory. Use '\\' or '/' as the file separator.
- scriptName	Required. The name of the script to be run.
- logFormat	Optional. The format of the logs that are created when the script is run. The options are: Default, XML, HTML, text, and TPTP.
- iterationCount	Optional. The number of dataset iterations to be run.
- userArgs	Optional. Additional playback arguments, if any.

Open a command prompt as an administrator or a root user. This applies even when you have logged into a test machine with administrator privileges.
Navigate to the download directory and verify that it includes the RFT-Ant-FunctionalTest.xml file.
Type ant -f RFT-Ant-FunctionalTest.xml to start test execution.

When ant execution completes, a test result is displayed. Ant execution output is logged into the logfile.txt file, and a test log is created in a temp directory under RFT-Ant-FunctionalTest-3.1 from where the ant command is executed.