Rational Test Workbench Web UI Tester overview

Use IBM® Rational® Test Workbench Web UI Tester to create, modify, and run different kinds of tests and to organize test assets. When you use the Rational Test Workbench Web UI Tester, you use the Test Workbench perspective and create Test Workbench projects.

You can use Rational Test Workbench Web UI Tester to do the following:

Test desktop Web applications

You can test browser-based Web applications from a desktop or laptop computer by capturing UI actions against the HTML controls on web pages. This feature requires the Web UI extension, which includes support for HTML5, JQuery UI 1.9 and 1.10, and the Dojo Mobile 1.9 library. In many cases, you can play back a test in other browsers or on mobile devices as long as the web pages are rendered the same way in the other browsers and mobile devices. Here are some typical scenarios for testing:

Work with functional test scripts

You can use the Rational Functional Tester extension to record or import functional test scripts and run them in the test workbench. Afterwords, you can view test scripts, test results, and logs in the Test Navigator. You can also add these test scripts to a compound test and run them from there. Both Simplified Scripts and Java Scripts are supported.

Import and work with Selenium tests

You can use Rational Test Workbench Eclipse Client to manage Selenium tests. You can load a Selenium project into the Eclipse client, view the project, modify the tests, and run them.

You install the Rational Test Workbench Selenium extension when you install the Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client. You can also combine Selenium tests with other tests into a compound test.

Combine tests into compound tests

A compound test is a test asset type that you can use to group tests into larger test flows. The tests in a compound test can all be of the same test type or of a different type. For example, you could group tests from different test extensions in the same compound test.

Work with keywords

In the Eclipse client, you can record a test script and then associate it with keywords that are created in Rational Quality Manager. A keyword is a statement or group of statements that you can reuse in other test scripts. Keywords are typically composed of script steps that reflect reusable processes. You can automate keywords through the use of Eclipse client test scripts.


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