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This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of HCL OneTest™ UI.
Tutorials for testing in the Functional Test perspective
You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the Functional Test perspective in Rational® Functional Tester.
Test GEF applications
The movies in this tutorial show you how to use HCL OneTest™ UI to test applications that are based on the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF). It also shows how HCL OneTest UI works with GEF objects.

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.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Tutorials for testing in the UI Test perspective
    You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the UI Test perspective in Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Tutorials for testing in the Functional Test perspective
    You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the Functional Test perspective in Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Get started with functional testing using simplified scripts
      This tutorial introduces you to simplified test scripts and the application visuals and helps you get started with HCL OneTest™ UI for testing applications. It uses a sample Java™ application that is installed with the product for functional testing.
    - Create a functional test using Java scripts
      This HCL OneTest™ UI tutorial walks you through the major use cases for creating and playing back functional tests that use Java scripts. This comprehensive tutorial uses a sample Java™ application that is installed with the product.
    - Perform a data-driven functional test using Java scripts
      In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a data-driven functional test using the HCL OneTest™ UI data-driven test wizard.
    - Test Adobe Flex application
      This tutorial walks you through the steps to enable your Adobe Flex application, and test the enabled Flex application from a local test computer using HCL OneTest™ UI. The steps are based on the roles that Flex developers and testers perform.
    - Test GEF applications
      The movies in this tutorial show you how to use HCL OneTest™ UI to test applications that are based on the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF). It also shows how HCL OneTest UI works with GEF objects.
      - Introduction: Test GEF applications
        This tutorial is designed for HCL OneTest™ UI to test the function of Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) objects that are implemented using GEF. For this tutorial, GEF objects were created using IBM® Rational® Systems Developer Version 7.0.5 (the application under test). The HCL OneTest UI test object map lists the GEF objects in the application under test. The test object map contains recognition properties for each GEF object.
      - Module 1: Test GEF applications
        This module will give you an overview of the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) objects that are created in IBM Rational Systems Developer, which is the application under test. You will also see how to enable GEF applications and create verification points to test the GEF objects. In this module you will observe how HCL OneTest™ UI recognizes the GEF edit parts in the application under test.
      - Module 2: Applying HCL OneTest™ UI capabilities to GEF objects
        In this module, you see how HCL OneTest™ UI capabilities are applied to Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) objects. HCL OneTest UI identifies GEF objects that are not visible in the work area. It also recognizes GEF palettes in the application under test. You will see how to make the functional test scripts more resilient to changes by configuring object recognition properties.
      - Summary: Test GEF applications
        This tutorial has shown you how to test applications based on the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) using HCL OneTest™ UI.
    - Extend Rational® Functional Tester capabilities using Proxy SDK
      The movies in this tutorial show you how to extend the Rational® Functional Tester proxies using the proxy SDK.
- 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.

Test GEF applications

The movies in this tutorial show you how to use HCL OneTest™ UI to test applications that are based on the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF). It also shows how HCL OneTest™ UI works with GEF objects.

Learning objectives

This tutorial is divided into two modules and each module is divided into lessons. After an overview of the GEF objects in the application under test, you will watch these tasks being performed:

Enabling GEF applications.
Testing the function of GEF objects using HCL OneTest™ UI.
Creating data, image and properties verification points on the GEF objects, given that HCL OneTest™ UI recognizes the GEF edit parts and palettes.
Identifying GEF test objects using the scroll logic.
Identifying GEF palette objects.
Configuring object recognition properties.

Time required

This tutorial requires approximately 45 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts related to this tutorial, it might take longer to complete.