Understanding Functional Tester Product Packaging and Integrations

The IBM Rational Functional Tester package includes Functional Tester, Java Scripting; Functional Tester, VB.Net Scripting; Rational Manual Test; ClearCase LT, and the Microsoft .Net Framework. This topic discusses the integrations of Functional Tester (either scripting language) with other Rational products.

Functional Tester is the newest version of the product introduced as Rational RobotJ in Rational Suites Enterprise Studio, Rational Suites TestStudio, and Rational TeamTest version 2002.05.02. The second release was XDE Tester in version 2003.06.00. Functional Tester includes all the previous RobotJ and XDE Tester functionality, plus new features.

Customers upgrading from RobotJ or XDE Tester to Functional Tester, please see Upgrading from RobotJ or XDE Tester to Functional Tester for important upgrade information.

Functional Tester is integrated with the 2003.06.13 version of TestManager. If you have the 2003.06.13 version of TestManager, you will be able to use the integrated features of Functional Tester and TestManager. You can install the two products in either order -- that is you can install Functional Test, then install TestManager, or install TestManager, then install Functional Test. If you use the Rational Test Agents, that is a separate install, and also requires an upgrade pack. Note that you need to have a separate license for each product.

If you have both Functional Tester and TestManager, the optional integration features will be available to you. These features include the TestManager Log, running Windows and Linux remote playback agents, and test management features such as running scripts as part of a test suite. Functional Tester has its own logs and does not depend on the TestManager log integration. If a feature depends on TestManager, it will be noted in the Functional Tester documentation about that feature.

Functional Tester can optionally make use of Rational projects and the Rational Test project, if you have Rational Administrator and TestManager installed. A Rational Test project is used to store test assets such as test plans, test cases, test logs, reports, and builds. For more information, see Rational Projects and Rational Administrator. Use of the Rational Test projects is optional. Regardless of whether you use a Rational Test project, Functional Tester uses a Functional Test project, which is created from within Functional Tester.

Functional Tester is integrated with ClearCase, ClearCase MultiSite, and ClearCase LT. You need to have one of these ClearCase products installed for this integration to work. See Functional Test and ClearCase for more information.

 

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