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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.
Integrations in Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
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.
Engineering Workflow Management
You can use IBM® Engineering Workflow Management as your software configuration management system to maintain functional test assets.
Sharing a project
To manage the Rational® Functional Tester projects by using the Jazz source control provider, you must share the project and select Jazz source control as the repository provider. To perform source control operations on the Rational Functional Tester project, the project must be in the Jazz repository workspace. When the project is shared, the project is moved to the Jazz repository workspace.

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.
  - 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.
    - Testing 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.
    - Testing with 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.
    - 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 Test Management
      Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM® Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from Rational Functional Tester.
    - Testing with IBM® Engineering Test Management in the Visual Studio IDE
      Rational® Functional Tester in the Visual Studio environment supports integration with IBM® Engineering Test Management.
    - Testing 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.
      - Engineering Workflow Management
        You can use IBM® Engineering Workflow Management as your software configuration management system to maintain functional test assets.
        Switching to Jazz source control
        You can use Jazz source control management to manage functional test assets such as test object maps and scripts to facilitate functional testing efforts. The integration is controlled by a property that is set in the ivory.properties file in the Rational® Functional Tester installation directory. You can use one software configuration management client type only in a session.
        Sharing a project
        To manage the Rational® Functional Tester projects by using the Jazz source control provider, you must share the project and select Jazz source control as the repository provider. To perform source control operations on the Rational Functional Tester project, the project must be in the Jazz repository workspace. When the project is shared, the project is moved to the Jazz repository workspace.
        Merging object maps
        You can merge two object maps by comparing your local copy with the repository copy of the file. Rational® Functional Tester merges the two object maps automatically.
    - 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.

Sharing a project

To manage the Rational® Functional Tester projects by using the Jazz source control provider, you must share the project and select Jazz source control as the repository provider. To perform source control operations on the Rational® Functional Tester project, the project must be in the Jazz repository workspace. When the project is shared, the project is moved to the Jazz repository workspace.

Procedure

Right-click the Rational® Functional Tester project, and click Team > Share project.
Select Jazz Source Control on the Share project page, and click Next.
Specify the repository workspace component to which to move this project.
1. Choose Select a component in an existing repository workspace if you have an existing repository workspace.
  - To place the project in an existing component, expand the workspace, and select the component.
  - To place the project in a new component in an existing repository workspace, select the workspace, click New Component, enter a name for the new component, click OK, and select the new component in the list.
2. Choose Create a new repository workspace named if you have not created a repository workspace or if you want to create a new one, type a name for the workspace, and click Next. Select Share with a component from an existing stream, expand the stream, and select a component.
Note: If the IBM® Engineering Workflow Management server is renamed, make sure that you update the hosts file with the new server name. You must also update the repository connection with the new server name so that you can continue performing source control operations on the functional test project. If you are using a version of the IBM® Engineering Workflow Management client that is older than 4.0, restart the client after you update the new server name in the hosts file and the repository connection.
Click Next.
Click Finish. The selected project is moved to the repository workspace.
The project is added to a component in a repository workspace. You can perform source control operations on the project. For more information on Jazz source control, see the IBM® Engineering Workflow Management information center.