About Functional Tester Projects

A Functional Tester project stores application test assets such as scripts, object maps, verification point baseline files, and script templates. You must create a Functional Tester project before you can record scripts.

Functional Tester Projects and Rational Projects

When you create a Functional Tester project, you can use the project stand-alone, or optionally associate it with the current Rational project to take advantage of the Functional Tester integration features with TestManager if you have TestManager installed. If you have TestManager, see "Note About TestManager Integration" below.

You can associate a project with the current Rational project when you create a Functional Tester project or later. For information about associating an existing project with a Rational project, see Associating a Functional Tester Project with a Rational Project.

If you associate your project with TestManager, you can:

Functional Tester has several log options. If you choose to use the TestManager log, you can use the Test Log window of TestManager to:

Note: A Functional Tester project that you associate with a Rational project appears in the Functional Tester Projects view as: MyXDETesterProject - MyRationalProject where MyRationalProject is the name of the Rational project.

Note About TestManager Integration

Functional Tester is integrated with Rational TestManager version 2003.06.13. If you have the 2003.06.13 version of TestManager, you will be able to use the integrated features of Functional Tester and TestManager. Please see Understanding Functional Tester Product Packaging and Integrations for important information on using the products together.

Functional Tester Projects and ClearCase

You can add a Functional Tester project to source control to use ClearCase LT or ClearCase as your software configuration management system. ClearCase LT is one of the team-unifying tools that comes with Rational TestStudio and Rational Enterprise. With ClearCase LT you can use only snapshot views. With ClearCase you can use snapshot and dynamic views.

A software configuration management system helps you maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets. You can also use ClearCase to share scripts, script templates, or object maps with others in your testing team. Using ClearCase, you can manage changes in test assets that are stored in the Functional Tester project and in software system development from requirements to release.

Note: Functional Tester works in a ClearCase Unified Change Management (UCM) enabled view if the view was created as part of a single-stream UCM project. Functional Tester will not work in views that are part of multi-stream UCM projects.

Related Topics:

Creating a Functional Tester Project

About Software Configuration Management

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