You can create scripts that simultaneously automate the testing
of multiple host terminals. Using this feature, you can create scripts with
host applications that react to the interactions with other host applications.
About this task
To create a script using multiple terminals:
- Start recording a new script using the host connection. For information
on recording a host connection script, see related topics.
- Log in to your host session and interact with the host, navigating
to other screens and creating data verification points.
- To open another terminal session, perform the following steps:
- On the Recording Monitor window toolbar, click the Start
Application
icon. The Start Application window opens.
- Click Extension for Terminal-based Applications from
the Application Name list, and click OK.
- You can now switch back and forth between the terminals, continually
interacting with the hosts, and creating verification points on the different
terminals.
- Log off from both hosts, and on the tool bar click the Stop
recording
icon.
- Save your script.
What to do next
Note: Extension for Terminal-based Applications uses .conn files
to differentiate the sessions. The terminal sessions cannot use the same .conn
file in order to distinguish the terminals from one another. Otherwise, when
the script is played back, Functional Tester will not recognize that there
are two terminal sessions. All actions against either terminal will be played
back on a single terminal.
If during playing back your script, any
of the verification points fail, then edit your script or object map.