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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.
Getting started with the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective
In this article, you will learn the fundamental concepts of the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective, such as recording a test, adding a verification point, abstracting data by using dataset, adding a loop, running a test and a compound test, and viewing test results.

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 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 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.
  - Setting up Rational® Functional Tester
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for setting up IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - 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.
  - Getting started with the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective
    In this article, you will learn the fundamental concepts of the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective, such as recording a test, adding a verification point, abstracting data by using dataset, adding a loop, running a test and a compound test, and viewing test results.
    - 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 flow: Standard accelerated functional testing
      The diagram in this topic shows the standard task flow for the accelerated functional testing for WebUI applications using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
    - 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 IBM® 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.
  - 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 Rational® 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.
- 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.
- 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 with the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective

In this article, you will learn the fundamental concepts of the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective, such as recording a test, adding a verification point, abstracting data by using dataset, adding a loop, running a test and a compound test, and viewing test results.

Introduction

Functional testing is about validating the functionality of the application under test. This validation is done by emulating user scenarios through the application's user interface. In a functional test, all of the user interactions, user inputs, and application behavior are recorded, and then a robust test is generated.

With the Rational® Functional Tester 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.

A web application includes many user scenarios. For example, on an e-commerce website many users only browse the products, some of the users sign in and add products to the cart, and a few of them purchase the products and sign out of the web site. Each of these activities is a user scenario that can be converted to a test scenario by using the Rational® Functional Tester UI Test perspective.

In this Getting Started guide, you will learn how to use the tool to record a test scenario on the web application and generate the test, modify the test script, run the test, and view results. For this Getting Started guide, you will use <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software">www.ibm.com/software</a> as the application under test.IF WE HAVE TO CHANGE THIS IT WILL REQUIRED A LOT OF WORK.

Assumptions

The Getting Started guide assumes that you have installed Rational® Functional Tester 9.2 or newer. For information about the supported platforms, see the <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/rtw#othertab1" target="_blank">System Requirements</a> page. GET LINK FROM NANDA. For information about product installation, see the Installing</a>.

Be sure to start Rational® Functional Tester on a new workspace.