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Rational® Functional Tester
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 Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
Testing with Rational® Team Concert™
IBM® Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Rational Team Concert™ (formerly known as 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.
Engineering Workflow Management
You can use IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ as your software configuration management system to maintain functional test assets.

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.
  - 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 Rational® Functional Tester 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 IBM® Engineering Test Management
      Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM® Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from Rational Functional Tester.
    - 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 Rational® Functional Tester 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™
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Rational Team Concert™ (formerly known as 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.
      - Engineering Workflow Management
        You can use IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ as your software configuration management system to maintain functional test assets.
        Switching to Jazz source control
        You can use Jazz source control management to manage functional test assets such as test object maps and scripts to facilitate functional testing efforts. The integration is controlled by a property that is set in the ivory.properties file in the Rational® Functional Tester installation directory. You can use one software configuration management client type only in a session.
        Sharing a project
        To manage the Rational® Functional Tester projects by using the Jazz source control provider, you must share the project and select Jazz source control as the repository provider. To perform source control operations on the Rational Functional Tester project, the project must be in the Jazz repository workspace. When the project is shared, the project is moved to the Jazz repository workspace.
        Merging object maps
        You can merge two object maps by comparing your local copy with the repository copy of the file. Rational® Functional Tester merges the two object maps automatically.
    - Testing with Tivoli Composite Application Manager
      Rational® Functional Tester 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 Rational Functional Tester scripts.
    - Testing with UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You can run functional test scripts remotely with the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester plug-in for UrbanCode™ Deploy.
- 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.

Engineering Workflow Management

You can use IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ as your software configuration management system to maintain functional test assets.

Using Engineering Workflow Management, you can share projects, scripts, script templates, test datasets, and object maps across the testing team. You can manage changes in test assets in a collaborative manner to track the changes efficiently.

Note: The integration of IBM Rational® Functional Tester with Engineering Workflow Management is not supported in .NET.

Engineering Workflow Management must be purchased separately. You must install Engineering Workflow Management using Installation Manager and then install Rational® Functional Tester using the same package group to integrate Engineering Workflow Management with Rational® Functional Tester.

With Engineering Workflow Management, you can manage test assets and perform source control operations such as these:

Check-in files from your local workspace to your repository workspace.
Make changes to the contents of your local workspace and check-in the files so that the local workspace and repository workspace contain the same versions of the files. In the repository workspace, related changes are collected as change sets so that changes in multiple files and folders can be committed in a single operation.
Deliver the change sets to a stream so that the content in the repository workspace is made available to other team members.

Note: When you perform source control operations in the Functional Test Projects, the results might be inconsistent. Perform all source control operations such as check-in and deliver from the Pending Changes view.

For more information on Jazz™ source control and Jazz concepts for Rational ClearCase® users, see the Engineering Workflow Management information center.