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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.
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.
Task flow: Standard accelerated functional testing
The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for the accelerated functional testing for WebUI applications using 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.
  - 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.
    - Task flow: Standard WebUI Recording
      The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for testing the WebUI applications using HCL OneTest™ UI.
    - Task flow: Standard accelerated functional testing
      The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for the accelerated functional testing for WebUI applications using HCL OneTest™ UI.
    - Task flow: Advanced accelerated functional testing
      The diagram in this topic shows the advanced task flow for the accelerated functional testing for WebUI applications using HCL OneTest™ UI.
    - Task flows for testing mobile applications
      You can find information about the tasks that you must perform to test mobile applications such as Android and iOS applications.
  - 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
  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.
- 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.

Task flow: Standard accelerated functional testing

The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for the accelerated functional testing for WebUI applications using HCL OneTest™ UI.

Although the diagram implies that each task is completed sequentially, you can do many of the tasks at the same time.

The diagram shows the standard task flow for accelerated functional testing using HCL OneTest™ UI

Standard accelerated functional testing task flow