Rational Projects and the Rational Administrator

When you create a Functional Tester project, you can use the project stand-alone, or associate it with a Rational project to take advantage of the Functional Test integration features with TestManager, if you have Rational Administrator and Rational TestManager installed.

Functional Tester is integrated with TestManager version 2003.06.00, which is included in Rational Suites Enterprise Studio, Rational Suites TestStudio, and Rational TeamTest. Please see Understanding Functional Tester Product Packaging and Integrations for important information on using the products together.

To associate a Functional Tester project with a Rational project, you must first create a Rational project using the Rational Administrator. For more detailed information about creating a Rational project, see the Rational Administrator Help.

A Rational project stores software testing and development information. All Rational components on your computer update and retrieve data from the same project.

Notes:

A Rational project can consist of the following projects or associated projects:

Note: If there are multiple, concurrent users of a test project, use a SQL Anywhere database engine for the test project. For information about installing SQL Anywhere software and creating a SQL Anywhere database server, see the Rational Server Products Installation Guide which is a PDF file on the Rational Solutions for Windows Online Documentation CD.

Security and Privileges

When administrators create Rational projects using the Administrator, they determine the security of the Rational Test project.

For any Rational project, administrators can create test groups with specific write and administration privileges, and they can create test users and assign them to test groups. The test users take on the privileges of the test groups to which they are assigned. For more information about security and privileges, see the Administrator Help.

Note: The write or administration privileges that you set for a Rational project do not affect a Functional Test project that you associate with a Rational project.

Related Topics:

Creating a Rational Project

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