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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 Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
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.
Working with keywords
In Rational® Functional Tester, you can associate functional test scripts with the keywords that are created in IBM® Engineering Test Management.
Working with keywords in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester
Keywords are defined and created in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager. In IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can record a functional test script and then associate it with the keywords that are created in Rational Quality Manager.

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
  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.
  - Installation
    You can find information about the installation of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - License management
    Licensing for your installed IBM® software and customized packages is administered through the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager. The Manage Licenses wizard displays license information for each installed package.
  - 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 plugins that are required to integrate Jenkins, Ant, , and UrbanCode™ Deploy 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.
    - 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.
      - Configuring and running Rational® Functional Tester adapter for IBM® Engineering Test Management
        You can integrate Rational® Functional Tester with Engineering Test Management by using an adapter. The adapter is available in the Rational Functional Tester installation directory. You can run the tests that you create by using Rational Functional Tester in Engineering Test Management after you configure and start the adapter.
      - Configuring and running the adapter using the command-line interface
        Integration with Rational® Functional Tester is implemented through the use of an adapter. The functional test adapter is installed by default when you install Rational Functional Tester. You can configure and start the adapter using the command-line interface.
      - Using the adapter to connect to IBM® Engineering Test Management through a proxy server
        You can use the adapter to connect to the Engineering Test Management server through a proxy server. You must configure the credentials for the proxy server from the command-line interface.
      - Handling inputs from IBM® Engineering Test Management in Rational® Functional Tester scripts
        If you use IBM® Engineering Test Management to execute functional test scripts, you can make Engineering Test Management details available to the functional test script to be used during playback.
      - Working with keywords
        In Rational® Functional Tester, you can associate functional test scripts with the keywords that are created in IBM® Engineering Test Management.
        Working with keywords in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester
        Keywords are defined and created in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager. In IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can record a functional test script and then associate it with the keywords that are created in Rational Quality Manager.
        Viewing keywords created in Engineering Test Management
        In Rational® Functional Tester, you can record and then associate functional test scripts with the keywords that are created in IBM® Rational Quality Manager. You can log on to the Rational Quality Manager to view keywords. You can play back the functional test script from Engineering Test Management.
        Associating functional test scripts with the keywords
        You can automate an IBM® Rational® Quality Manager keyword by associating it with an IBM Rational Functional Tester script. You can either associate an existing functional test script with a given keyword, or record a new script against the keyword and then associate the script. You can see the steps of a keyword when you associate an automated script. After a keyword is automated, you can open and execute the automated script.
        Keyword View
        The Rational® Functional Tester Keyword View displays the keywords. This view is displayed in the right pane of the Functional Test perspective.
    - Integration with Jenkins
      You can use the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester - Functional Test to run tests on a Jenkins server.
    - 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.
    - Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Engineering Workflow Management (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 IBM Engineering Workflow Management server set up to use the Jazz source control management.
    - 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 - Functional Test plugin 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.

Working with keywords in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester

Keywords are defined and created in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager. In IBM® Rational® Functional Tester, you can record a functional test script and then associate it with the keywords that are created in Rational® Quality Manager.

Learn more about keywords: Keywords are defined and created in Rational® Quality Manager. A keyword is a statement or group of statements that you can reuse in other test scripts. Keywords are typically composed of script steps that reflect reusable processes. You can automate keywords through the use of functional test scripts. For more information about keywords, see the Rational® Quality Manager Knowledge Center.

To work with keywords, you must log on to Rational® Quality Manager server. The keywords created in Rational® Quality Manager are displayed in the Rational® Functional Tester Keyword View. You can record a functional test script and associate it with an keyword.

After you associate the functional test scripts to the appropriate keywords, you can play back the functional test scripts that are associated with the keywords from Rational® Quality Manager.