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Administrator guide
Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
Integrations in Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
Testing with Engineering Test Management
HCL OneTest™ UI can be integrated with Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from HCL OneTest UI.

Rational® Functional Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about new features, system requirements, and known limitations in 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.
- 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
  Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
  - Installing
    In this section, you will learn about two ways to install the product. In the first approach, you use an executable file to directly install the product in an easy manner. In the second approach, you download and install IBM® Installation Manager and then use that tool to install the product.
  - Starting HCL OneTest™ UI from the command line
    You can start HCL OneTest™ UI from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
  - Integrations in Web 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 plugin that are compatible 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. Version 2.0 of the ant plugin is supported in Rational® Functional Tester 9.2 and newer.
    - 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 HCL OneTest™ UI 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 Engineering Test Management
      HCL OneTest™ UI can be integrated with Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from HCL OneTest UI.
      - Configuring and running Rational Functional Tester adapter for Rational Quality Manager
        You can integrate HCL OneTest™ UI with Rational® Quality Manager by using an adapter. The adapter is available in the Rational Functional Tester installation directory. You can run the tests that you create by using Rational Functional Tester in Rational® Quality Manager after you configure and start the adapter.
      - Configuring and running the adapter using the command-line interface
        Integration with HCL OneTest™ UI is implemented through the use of an adapter. The functional test adapter is installed by default when you install HCL OneTest UI. You can configure and start the adapter using the command-line interface.
      - Using the adapter to connect to Rational® Quality Manager through a proxy server
        You can use the adapter to connect to the Rational® Quality Manager server through a proxy server. You must configure the credentials for the proxy server from the command-line interface.
      - Handling inputs from Rational® Quality Manager in HCL OneTest™ UI scripts
        If you use IBM® Rational® Quality Manager to execute functional test scripts, you can make Rational Quality Manager details available to the functional test script to be used during playback.
      - Working with keywords
        In HCL OneTest™ UI, you can associate functional test scripts with the keywords that are created in IBM® Engineering Test Management.
    - Integration with Jenkins
      You can use the Rational® Functional Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
    - Testing with Maven
      Starting from V9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
    - Testing with Rational® ClearCase®
      As you develop your HCL OneTest™ UI test scripts and the supporting files that accompany those scripts, you can use Rational® ClearCase® as your software configuration management system to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
    - Testing with Rational® Team Concert™
      HCL OneTest™ UI can be integrated with IBM® 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 Rational Team Concert server set up to use the Jazz source control management.
    - Testing with Tivoli Composite Application Manager
      HCL OneTest™ UI 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 HCL OneTest UI scripts.
    - Testing with UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You can run functional test scripts remotely with the HCL OneTest™ UI plug-in for UrbanCode™ Deploy.
- Test Author guide
  As a test author, you are responsible to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
- Test Execution Specialist guide
  A test executor automates 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
  As a test manager, you can 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
  While working with HCL OneTest™ UI, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot. The topics in this section address some of these problems.
- Reference
  Use these additional topics to gain more knowledge about the product.
- 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.

Testing with Engineering Test Management

HCL OneTest™ UI can be integrated with Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from HCL OneTest™ UI.

HCL OneTest™ UI can be integrated with Engineering Test Management using an adapter. The functional test adapter is installed by default when you install HCL OneTest™ UI. After installing HCL OneTest™ UI, you must configure and run the adapter. The adapter receives messages from Engineering Test Management and runs functional test scripts when requested from a user through the Engineering Test Management. After test run, the adapter uploads the execution log to the Engineering Test Management server.

Test scripts are created and associated with keywords using HCL OneTest™ UI. These keywords are created and defined in Engineering Test Management. You can manage and execute functional test scripts and view test logs from Engineering Test Management.

You can use BuildForge to remotely install HCL OneTest™ UI. The administrator can use the BuildForgeScripts project provided with HCL OneTest™ UI to install HCL OneTest™ UI on a remote machine and configure the HCL OneTest™ UI adapter for Quality Manager integration.

The Build Forge sample scripts are located at functional tester installation directory\SDP\FunctionalTester\RQMAdapter\RTLM_BuildForgeScripts.

For information on installing HCL OneTest™ UI using Build Forge sample scripts see the rtlm_rft_doc.html document at functional tester installation directory\SDP\FunctionalTester\RQMAdapter\RTLM_BuildForgeScripts\Docs.

If a functional test script depends on external JARs, and you want to run the test script from Rational® Quality Manager, you must place the test script in the HCL OneTest™ UI customization folder. For details, see https://jazz.net/forum/questions/67674/classnotdeffexception-whenn-running-a-rft-script-from-rqm .