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Rational Functional Tester
Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with Rational® Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
Task flows for UI Test perspective
The task flows are designed to help you understand the process of testing web, mobile and Windows desktop applications in Rational® Functional Tester.

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 IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with Rational® Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
  - Rational® Functional Tester overview
    Rational® Functional Tester 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, Rational Functional Tester also tests the user interface of Web applications on the desktop and on mobile devices.
  - Importing a sample functional test project
    One way to get started quickly with Rational® Functional Tester is to import the sample functional test project that is provided with IBM® Rational Functional Tester. The sample project includes sample test scripts that you can use. When you import the sample project, it is copied to your Eclipse workspace.
  - Setting up Rational® Functional Tester
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for setting up IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flows for testing applications
    The task flows are designed to help you understand the process of functional testing using Rational® Functional Tester. For some of the technologies, there are specific task flows that you can follow to gain a clear understanding of the process.
  - Task flows for UI Test perspective
    The task flows are designed to help you understand the process of testing web, mobile and Windows desktop applications in Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Task flow for testing web applications
      The diagrams in this topic shows the standard task and advanced work flows for testing the web applications in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Task flows for accelerated functional testing
      The task flows are designed to help you understand the process of accelerating functional testing using Rational® Functional Tester.
    - 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.
    - Task flows for testing Windows desktop applications
      You can find information about the tasks that you must perform to test Windows desktop applications.
  - Task flow: Integrating Rational® Performance TesterRational® Functional Tester and Rational® Integration Tester
    You can execute integration tests in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester by using IBM Rational Functional Tester Extension for Rational Integration Tester. In IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can create a compound test to run the integration tests by using agents.
  - Using the Functional Test perspective of Rational® Functional Tester on Linux
    For the Functional Test perspective, most features are supported on Linux®, except for recording the scripts. This topic provides an overview about how Rational® Functional Tester behaves on Linux.
  - The Functional Test perspective
    The Functional Test perspective has components that are displayed automatically when you start Rational® Functional Tester: the product menu, toolbar, Projects view, Script (simplified) editor, Java™ editor, Script Explorer, Console view, Tasks view, Application view, Keyword view, Properties view, and the status bar.
  - The UI Test perspective
    With the 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.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of Rational® Functional Tester.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with Rational® Functional Tester to test the functionality of an application.
- 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.
- 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 Rational® Test Control Panel.
- 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 Rational® Functional Tester.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Functional Tester.
- Security Considerations
  This document describes the actions that you can take 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 flows for UI Test perspective

The task flows are designed to help you understand the process of testing web, mobile and Windows desktop applications in Rational® Functional Tester.

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