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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.
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.
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.

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 testing tool that tests a wide range of desktop, Web, and mobile applications. Rational Functional Tester provides automated testing capabilities for functional, regression, GUI, and data-driven testing.
  - Task flow for 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 in the UI Test perspective
    With the UI Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for web 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.
    - 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.
    - 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.
    - Task flow for testing applications
      The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Task flow for testing Java applications
      The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Java application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Task flow for testing HTML applications
      The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the HTML application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Task flow for testing Eclipse applications
      The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Eclipse application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Task flow for testing SAP applications
      The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the SAP application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Task flow for testing Flex applications
      The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Flex application using Rational® Functional Tester.
    - 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.
  - Task flow for integrating Rational® Functional Tester and Rational® Integration Tester
    You can run 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
  You can learn to start using Rational® Functional Tester by reviewing the information in the Tutorials for the UI Test perspective and Functional Test perspective.
- Samples
  You can find the sample project that you can use 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.

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.

Click a component for more information.

Menu
Toolbar
Projects view
Script editor
Java Editor
Script Explorer
Application View
Keyword View
Properties view: Properties view - General page, Properties View- Playback page, Properties View - Log page and Properties View - Advanced page.
Console View
Tasks View
Status bar -- the product uses the status bar at the bottom of the Test Perspective to display messages.

For more information on perspectives and views, see the online Workbench User Guide.