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You can find the sample project that you can use with Rational® Functional Tester to test the functionality of an application.
Functional testing proxy SDK technology samples
Functional testing proxy SDK samples are simple examples of proxy source code and applications under test (AUT).
JSpinnerProxy
This JSpinnerProxy sample explains how to extend recording behavior of a control with SubItems, and support the playback for the extended recording behavior. The sample works with the application-under-test (AUT) sample.
Examples you can use
This proxy sample explains how to extend the recording behavior of a control with SubItems and support for the corresponding playback.

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.
  - Sample project to test a Java application
    The sample functional test project is created using the first few lessons of the "Create a functional test" tutorial . You can look at the test assets while you do the tutorial or after you complete it.
  - A Rational® Functional Tester project to test an HTML application
    This is a sample functional test project that contains various functional test scripts for testing an HTML application. In this sample project, the IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ web client is used as an application under test.
  - Functional testing proxy SDK technology samples
    Functional testing proxy SDK samples are simple examples of proxy source code and applications under test (AUT).
    - ButtonProxy
      The ButttonProxy sample has two Rational® Functional Tester proxies. There is one button control each for the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and the Java foundation class (JFC). The sample works with the application-under-test (AUT) sample.
    - JFormattedTextFieldProxy
      This JFormattedTextFieldProxy sample explains how create a new proxy class add new control properties and control data. The sample works with the application-under-test (AUT) sample.
    - CheckBoxProxy
      This CheckBoxProxy sample explains how to create a new proxy class and new TestObjects and then map them to the javax.swing.JCheckBox control. The sample works with the application-under-test (AUT) sample.
    - Button OverrideProxy
      This ButtonOverrideProxy sample explains how you can extend the recording behavior of Rational® Functional Tester, add more properties and set up a simple value manager and value class. This sample proxy is written for the java.awt.Button control. The sample works with the application-under-test sample (AUT).
    - JSpinnerProxy
      This JSpinnerProxy sample explains how to extend recording behavior of a control with SubItems, and support the playback for the extended recording behavior. The sample works with the application-under-test (AUT) sample.
      - Examples you can use
        This proxy sample explains how to extend the recording behavior of a control with SubItems and support for the corresponding playback.
    - TreeProxy
      This TreeProxy sample explains how to extend recording behavior of a control with SubItems, and support the playback for the extended recording behavior. The sample works with the application-under-test (AUT) sample. To view the samples, you must import the tree proxy, tree application and the tree custom control for which the proxy is being written into your workspace.
    - Flex control proxy
      This FlexCustomControl sample explains how to extend the recording behavior of a control with SubItems and support the playback for the extended recording behavior. The sample works with the application under test sample. To view the samples, import the flex proxy for which the proxy is being written into your workspace.
  - Functional testing samples for the Visual Studio IDE
    Rational® Functional Tester ships with some example code you can use in your own scripts. You can open these examples from within the sample project shipped with Rational Functional Tester. The sample project was created using the Rational Functional Tester tutorial. For reference, you can look at the script and other test assets while you do the tutorial, or after you complete the tutorial, if you want to compare the script and test assets to your files or actually play back the script.
  - Functional testing proxy SDK samples for the Visual Studio IDE
    Rational® Functional Tester ships with some example proxy code you can use to learn about proxy SDK. You can open these examples from within the sample projects shipped with Rational Functional Tester.
- 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
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Examples you can use

This proxy sample explains how to extend the recording behavior of a control with SubItems and support for the corresponding playback.

Extended Capabilities: Recording controls with SubItems

This proxy sample extends the processSingleMouseEvent() proxy API to modify the recording behavior of a spin control. Although a spin control has two buttons and one text control as its children, from a testing perspective it must be treated as a single control with no children appearing in the TestObject Map. (In the TestObjectMap, the buttons and the text are treated as SubItems.) The processSingleMouseEvent() implementation sets methods with suitable SubItems, for example atButton("UP") or atButton("DOWN") as parameters for recording. Also note that although there are child objects for the spin control, you must make sure they are not listed as separate TestObjects. Therefore, the getChildAtPoint() and getChildren() APIs are extended to return null values. These child objects are treated as SubItems.

Playback Support

To support playback for each SubItem that is introduced during recording, Rational® Functional Tester looks for the screen rectangle for each SubItem through the proxy. The SubItem rectangle can be provided by extending java.awt.Rectangle getScreenRectangle(Subitem subitem) proxy API.

Deploy the binaries

Copy the JSpinnerProxy.jar and JSpinnerProxy.rftcust files to the customization directory and restart Rational® Functional Tester to test the sample application-under-test (AUT).

Verify the recording behavior

You can verify the recording behavior of the spin control:

Before you deploy the proxies, when you record results of the up and down buttons of JSpinner, the clicks are recorded as button.click(), where each up and down control is treated as a separate control.
After you deploy the proxies, clicking on the up button is recorded as spinner().click(atButton("UP")). Notice that the buttons are treated and recorded as SubItems and not as separate TestObjects.

Verify the playback behavior

Before you deploy the proxies, playing back user actions with SubItems, for example spinner().click(atButton("UP")) throws an exception, Point not found.
After you deploy the proxies, playing back user actions with SubItems work fine.