With Rational® Functional
Tester proxy software development kit (SDK) you can extend automated functional
testing support for your application's user interface controls (GUI test objects),
beyond what is provided by Functional Tester by
default. The proxy SDK provides detailed documentation, API references and
ready-to-use samples and tutorials on how to extend Functional Tester to
add support for testing new controls. It also helps you to extend already
supported controls from the existing domains.
You can use the Functional Tester proxy SDK to do these tasks:
- Add support for an unsupported control
- Change or enhance what is recorded for an existing control to make playback
more resilient
- Add support for sub-items within a control
- Add new data verification tests
- Make an existing control mappable
- Add new properties
The current release of Functional Tester proxy
SDK supports extending testing support for GUI controls in Java™ and
.NET domains. The current capabilities are as follows:
Before you begin
To extend Functional Tester proxies,
you need the following:
- Understanding of GUI functional testing
- Detailed understanding of the Functional Tester framework
- Strong familiarity with the application environment
- Knowledge of Java or C# programming based on the proxy framework
- Knowledge of operating system concepts is useful but not necessary