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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.
Integrations in UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
Integration with Jenkins
You can use the Rational® Functional Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.

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.
- 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.
  - 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 Rational® Functional Tester from the command line
    You can start Rational® Functional Tester from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
  - Integrations in UI Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI 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 compound tests and Web UI tests from the command-line interface.
    - Integration with Azure DevOps for UI 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.
    - EGit integration
      EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system. You can store your test assets in the Git repository and use EGit for the daily version control operations.
    - Testing with Rational® Team Concert™
      You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ (formerly known as Rational Team Concert) eclipse client.
    - Integration with IBM® Engineering Test Management
      You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Functional Tester or Rational Performance Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
    - Integration with Jenkins
      You can use the Rational® Functional Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
      - Environment variables
        You can add environment variables on the Jenkins server to run the Jenkins build by referring to environment variables.
      - Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins
        You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project.
      - Installing the plugin on the Jenkins primary server
        You must install the Rational® Functional Tester Web UI Jenkins plugin to run UI test assets from the Jenkins server.
      - Configuring the Freestyle project
        You must configure a Freestyle project to add a build step, and then run test assets from Jenkins.
      - Running tests from Jenkins
        You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.
    - Testing with Maven
      Starting with v9.2, you can use the Maven plug-in to run Functional Test scripts. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM). You can use the Maven plug-in that is provided to run tests as part of your Maven build.
    - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
      You can integrate Rational® Functional Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
    - Testing with Rational® Integration Tester
      Starting from V9.5.0, you can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to execute Integration tests. In Rational Functional Tester, you can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from Rational Functional Tester by establishing the connection between the products. In Rational Functional Tester, you can create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
    - Testing with UrbanCode Deploy
      With the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester plugin for UrbanCode™ Deploy, you can automate the execution of tests and compound tests.
  - Integrations in Functional Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
- 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.

Integration with Jenkins

You can use the Rational® Functional Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.

To automate testing with Jenkins, you must configure Jenkins primary server and Jenkins secondary server. This configuration provides a single Jenkins installation on the Jenkins primary server to host multiple Jenkins secondary server for building and running tests. For more information about the Jenkins primary and secondary server relationship, refer to the Jenkins documentation.

You must install the required version of the Rational® Functional Tester Jenkins plugin on the Jenkins primary server, and install Rational® Functional Tester on the Jenkins secondary server, where you create tests.

You can use the Jenkins Freestyle project to run test assets from Jenkins. With Freestyle project, you can create a build step from the Jenkins UI to run the test assets.

Refer to the following topics to learn more about integrating Jenkins with Rational® Functional Tester in the UI Test perspective: