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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.
Unified reports
Unified reports in Rational® Functional Tester provide a detailed overview of the test results.
Prerequisites to export unified reports as a PDF
After you run tests in Rational® Functional Tester, the results are displayed in unified reports. Before you export the unified reports as a PDF, you must have read about the prerequisite tasks that you can perform to customize the appearance of the PDF files that are exported from the unified reports.

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.
- 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.
  - Publishing test result to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server
    The test result indicate the quality of the application under test. There could be different stakeholders to the application who do not have the product installed but want to check the quality of application. You, as the user of the product, can publish the test result to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server so that others can view it from the web browser.
  - Publishing specific results to the server
    If you have a single test result or multiple test results that are not published to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you can publish a single or all of them simultaneously.
  - Unified reports
    Unified reports in Rational® Functional Tester provide a detailed overview of the test results.
    - Unified reports for Web UI, mobile, and Windows tests
      Rational® Functional Tester generates unified reports for Web UI, mobile, and Windows tests, immediately after test runs.
    - Unified reports for functional test scripts
      Rational® Functional Tester generates unified reports for functional test scripts immediately after test runs. You can view the reports in the default browser window.
    - Prerequisites to export unified reports as a PDF
      After you run tests in Rational® Functional Tester, the results are displayed in unified reports. Before you export the unified reports as a PDF, you must have read about the prerequisite tasks that you can perform to customize the appearance of the PDF files that are exported from the unified reports.
    - Customizing PDF files exported from unified reports
      When you want to change the default view of PDF files that are exported from unified reports, you can customize the view of the exported PDF files.
    - Removing customization of PDF files exported from unified reports
      When you customized the view of the PDF files exported from unified reports and you want to revert to the default view, you can remove the customization anytime.
    - Exporting unified reports
      After you run tests and when the unified report is generated, you can export the unified report to different file formats such as HTML, PDF, or XML(JUnit). By using the exported file, you can view the test details in the desired format and save the exported file for later use.
  - Results for tests in UI Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Web UI Test perspective.
  - Results for tests in Functional Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Functional Test perspective.
- 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.

Prerequisites to export unified reports as a PDF

After you run tests in Rational® Functional Tester, the results are displayed in unified reports. Before you export the unified reports as a PDF, you must have read about the prerequisite tasks that you can perform to customize the appearance of the PDF files that are exported from the unified reports.

You can perform the following customizations in the exported PDF files:

Highlight only the verification points and exclude the details displayed in the tabular form for test steps in the PDF.
Increase the size of screen captures that are displayed in the PDF.
Exclude screen captures of specific SAP GUI test steps in the PDF.

Note: If you do not customize the preferences for the exported PDF, the PDF displays the details of the test steps in the tabular form along with images of the screen captures in their default size. This default format might render the PDF to run into several pages and the details of the verification points might confuse you to correlate with the images.

For information about the tasks that you must perform to customize the view of the exported PDF, see Customizing PDF files exported from unified reports.

You can also perform the customizations from the command line by using the -vmargs option. For more information, see Configuration of test runs from the command line.

If you have already customized the view of the exported PDF files and you want to remove the customization, see Removing customization of PDF files exported from unified reports.

Languages supported for PDF export

When you set up your computer on which you installed Rational® Functional Tester in any of the supported languages, you can also view the PDF files that you export from the unified reports in any of the following supported languages:


Supported language to export PDF files	Locale set in your computer
Brazilian Portuguese	pt_BR
English	en_US
French	fr_FR
German	de_DE
Hungarian	hu_HU
Italian	It
Spanish	es