When you create a Functional
test project, you can associate it with a Rational® project
to take advantage of the Functional Tester integration features with
TestManager if you have TestManager installed.
Note: To view the Rational TestManager version
that can be integrated with Rational Functional Tester, see List of supported domains for functional testing
by releases of Rational Functional Tester versions 8.0 and 8.1 tech.
note.
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 test
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.
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.