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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 UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) Eclipse client.

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.
  - Software configuration management
    You can integrateRational® Functional Tester with the software configuration management systems to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
  - Integrations in UI Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI 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 compound tests and Web UI tests from the command-line interface.
    - Testing with Azure DevOps for UI 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 EGit
      You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
    - Configuration of test runs as a GitHub Actions Workflow
      You can configure test runs of test resources that are in a project repository of Rational® Functional Tester in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in the project in the GitHub Workflow when you want to run the test resources without opening the Rational Functional Tester.
    - Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
      You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) Eclipse client.
      - Tracking defects with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
        You can submit defects to IBM® Engineering Workflow Management from Rational® Functional Tester. By default, the test log editor uses Bugzilla as the defect tracking site. You must configure the product to use Rational Team Concert™ for defect tracking.
    - Testing with Engineering Test Management
      You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with Rational Functional Tester to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
    - Testing with Jenkins
      You can use the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester - UI Test Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
    - Testing with Maven
      Starting from 9.2.0, 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 Micro Focus ALM
      You can integrate Rational® Functional Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
    - Testing with Rational® Integration Tester
      You can use Rational® Integration Tester extension to run integration tests from Rational Functional Tester. You can either import the projects from Rational Integration Tester or manage them from Rational Functional Tester by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
    - Testing with UrbanCode Deploy
      With the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester plugin for UrbanCode™ Deploy, you can automate the execution of tests and compound tests.
  - Integrations in Functional Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
- 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.

Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management

You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) Eclipse client.

Introduction

You can use IBM® Engineering Workflow Management Eclipse client to connect to compatible Jazz™ servers, including IBM® Engineering Workflow Management servers. You must have a compatible version of IBM® Engineering Workflow Management server setup to use Jazz™ source control management. For information about compatible versions, see System Requirements.

Use this feature to do the following tasks:

Access IBM® Engineering Workflow Management Eclipse client.
Manage the test assets by using Jazz™ source control management.

If you have installed the IBM® Engineering Workflow Management Eclipse client, see the IBM® Engineering Workflow Management help to learn more about using IBM® Engineering Workflow Management.

To access work items, you can switch to the Work Items perspective by clicking Window > Open Perspective > Work Items.

Installing IBM® Engineering Workflow Management client

You must have obtained the installation package that is available on the IBM Passport Advantage site. For information about installation, see IBM® Engineering Workflow Management help.

Notes:

From V7.0 or later, Rational® Team Concert™ is renamed to IBM® Engineering Workflow Management.

Tips:

You must install IBM® Engineering Workflow Management by using Installation Manager in the same package group as the test workbench.
Both the IBM® Engineering Workflow Management or IBM® Engineering Workflow Management Eclipse client and the test workbench must use the same workspace.