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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.
Tutorials for testing in the Visual Studio IDE
Rational® Functional Tester tutorials contain educational materials to help you learn the technologies and concepts behind products.
Test Adobe Flex application
This tutorial walks you through the steps to enable your Adobe Flex application, and test the enabled Flex application from a local test computer using Rational® Functional Tester. The steps are based on the roles that Flex developers and testers perform.
Introduction: Test Adobe Flex application
In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable a Flex application for functional testing and test the enabled Flex application using Rational® Functional Tester.

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.
  - Tutorials for testing in the UI Test perspective
    You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the UI Test perspective in Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Tutorials for testing in the Functional Test perspective
    You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the Functional Test perspective in Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Tutorials for testing in the Visual Studio IDE
    Rational® Functional Tester tutorials contain educational materials to help you learn the technologies and concepts behind products.
    - Create a functional test
      This tutorial teaches you how to get started using Rational® Functional Tester and walks you through the major use cases for testing and performing basic operations. This tutorial uses the sample application provided with Rational Functional Tester to perform all the tasks.
    - Create a data-driven functional test
      In this tutorial, you will learn how to data-drive a test using a variety of realistic data to test the application with Rational® Functional Tester data-driver wizard.
    - Test Adobe Flex application
      This tutorial walks you through the steps to enable your Adobe Flex application, and test the enabled Flex application from a local test computer using Rational® Functional Tester. The steps are based on the roles that Flex developers and testers perform.
      - Introduction: Test Adobe Flex application
        In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable a Flex application for functional testing and test the enabled Flex application using Rational® Functional Tester.
      - Module 1: Enable the Flex application for testing
        In this module, you learn how to enable Flex applications for functional testing by compiling the Flex application with functional testing agent (rft.swc) and Flex automation framework libraries.
      - Module 2: Test the Flex application
        In this module, you learn how to test the functionality of the enabled Flex application that is provided by the developer.
- 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.

Introduction: Test Adobe Flex application

In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable a Flex application for functional testing and test the enabled Flex application using Rational® Functional Tester.

The tutorial is divided into two modules that must be completed in sequence to work properly.

Learning objectives

After completing this tutorial, you will be able to:

Set up the development and testing environment
Enable the Flex application for functional testing
Test the enabled Flex application using Rational® Functional Tester

Note: Consider printing the tutorial before you begin and using the printed copy as you work through the lessons. You can print each lesson by right-clicking inside each topic and clicking Print.

Time required

This tutorial takes approximately 30 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts related to this tutorial, it might take longer to complete.