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Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.

Rational® Functional Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known problems in and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Getting Started Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
  - HCL OneTest™ UI overview
    HCL OneTest™ UI 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, HCL OneTest UI 9.2 and newer also tests the user interface of Web applications on the desktop and on mobile devices.
  - Setting up HCL OneTest™ UI
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for setting up HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Creating a project
    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.
  - The Web UI Test perspective
    With the Web UI Test perspective, you can quickly create and run functional tests for the web applications. It gives you a recording and natural language scripting environment to test browser applications that use HTML5 and JQuery. You can test on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers.
  - Getting started in the Functional Test perspective
    With the Functional Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for native or hybrid applications.
  - Task flow: Integrating HCL OneTest™ UI and HCL OneTest™ API
    You can execute integration tests in HCL OneTest™ UI by using HCL OneTest UI Extension for HCL OneTest API. In HCL OneTest UI, you can create a compound test to run the integration tests by using agents.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with HCL OneTest™ UI to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ UI 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.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes how to automate the playback of the tests by using different methods such as Docker, IBM Cloud Private, Jenkins and so on. The test results can be pushed to HCL Quality Server.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
- Troubleshooting
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about HCL OneTest™ UI.
- All Guides (PDF)
  You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester as a PDF file.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

Getting Started Guide

This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational® Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.

Before you can perform the various tasks described in the Getting Started Guide and the other guides, you must install Rational® Functional Tester. See Installing.

Before you start using Rational® Functional Tester, see HCL OneTest UI overview.

You can find information about getting started in the following perspectives of Rational® Functional Tester: