When you create a Functional Test
project, you can use the project stand-alone, or associate it with a Rational® project
to take advantage of the Functional Tester integration features with TestManager
if you have TestManager installed.
Note About TestManager Integration: Functional
Tester is integrated with Rational TestManager version 7.0.2. If you
have the 7.0.2 version of TestManager, you will be able
to use the integrated features of Functional Tester and TestManager.
See Understanding Functional Tester integrations for
important information on using the products together.
When you associate an existing Functional Tester project with the current Rational project,
you can use TestManager to start Functional Tester to create and play back
Functional Tester scripts, use the TestManager Agent to play back scripts
on a remote computer, and manage logs from TestManager. You must have Rational Administrator
and TestManager installed to use these integrated features.
You can associate a project with a Rational project when you create
a Functional Tester project, or associate
an existing project with a Rational project.
The benefits of associating a Functional Tester project with the current Rational project
are:
- You can manage all of your testing assets from one Rational project.
- You can record and play back all Functional Tester scripts from Rational TestManager.
(TestManager starts Functional Tester when you start recording a Functional
Tester test script from TestManager.)
- You can play back a Functional Tester script on different computers using Rational Test
Agents that you set up through TestManager.
- You can manage logs, including Functional Tester logs, using the Test
Log window of TestManager.
- You can use TestManager reports to get information about the results
of running Functional Tester test scripts and get coverage reports for a testing
project.
- You can use a TestManager suite to coordinate the way that scripts run.
Often several scripts and computers can be involved in a test. You can use
suites to run scripts in parallel on the computers that are available so that
your tests can run more quickly.
Notes: - The name of the Rational project that you associate with a Functional
Tester project appears next to the name of the Functional Tester project in
the Functional Tester Projects view, for example, as: MyFTProject -
MyRationalProject where MyRationalProject is
the name of the Rational project.
- You can disassociate a Functional Tester project anytime.