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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 Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
Testing with Jenkins
You can use the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester - Functional Test to run tests on a Jenkins server.
Running tests from Jenkins
You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.

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.
      - Environment variables
        You can add environment variables on the Jenkins server to run the Jenkins build by referring to environment variables.
      - Build parameters for Jenkins
        You can define the build parameters when you configure either Freestyle or Pipeline projects. You must map the build parameters with the parameters of Run an IBM Rational Functional Tester - Functional Test. When you use the build parameters, Jenkins prompts you to enter a value for the defined parameter when you run the Jenkins job. Each parameter has a name and value.
      - Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins
        You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project or the Pipeline project.
      - Installing the plugin on the Jenkins primary server
        You must install the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester - Functional Test Jenkins plugin to run test assets from the Jenkins server.
      - Configuring the Freestyle project
        You must configure a Freestyle project to add a build step, and then run test assets from Jenkins.
      - Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins
        You must create a pipeline script to run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
      - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the sample script
        You can configure a Pipeline project directly from the Jenkins UI by using the sample pipeline scripts to run test assets from Jenkins.
      - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the script from SCM
        You can configure the Pipeline project to use the pipeline script from the Source Code Management (SCM), and then run test assets from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
      - Running tests from Jenkins
        You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.
    - 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.
    - 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.

Running tests from Jenkins

You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Verified that you have test assets residing within Rational® Functional Tester.
Configured the Freestyle project, if you want to run test assets from the Freestyle project. See Configuring the Freestyle project.
Configured the Pipeline project either by using the Pipeline script or Pipeline script from SCM, if you want to run test assets from the Pipeline project. See Configuring the Pipeline project by using the sample script or Configuring the Pipeline project by using the script from SCM.
Downloaded the latest Test Results Analyzer plugin from the Jenkinsci repository. For more information about the Test Results Analyzer plugin, refer to the Jenkins documentation.
Installed the Test Results Analyzer plugin on the Jenkins server. For more information about installing the plugin, refer to the Jenkins documentation.

About this task

After the test run is complete, you can view the test results in a tabular format when you use the Jenkins Test Results Analyzer plugin. With a TRA-based report, you can filter the results based on the status of the build. The status of the builds can be PASSED, FAILED, and SKIPPED. You can also identify the failed build from the TRA-based report and take the required action to resolve the build errors. The TRA report also represents the build information in Line, Bar, and Pie graphs so that you can easily read the data.

Note: You can view the TRA-based reports only when you run Web UI tests.

Procedure

Log in to the Jenkins server.
The Jenkins dashboard is displayed.
Open your Jenkins Freestyle or Pipeline project from the list.
Perform one of the following steps to run the test assets from Jenkins:
- Click Build Now.
- Click Build with Parameters to provide the values for the defined parameters, and then click Build.

Results

You have run the test from the Jenkins server.

What to do next

You can view the build logs by clicking the build number from the Build History pane, and then selecting the Console Output option.

You can also view the history of test results in a tabular format by clicking the Test Results Analyzer option. The TRA reports are available only for Web UI test assets.