Lesson 1: Set up Rational Functional Tester

IBM^® provides a Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) that is installed and enabled for testing Java applications. Use this JRE for the tutorial. When you want to test your own Java or HTML applications, you must run the enabler and configure your environments and applications. For more information on these set-up tasks, see the Getting Started with Functional Tester wizard in the First Steps section of the product Welcome. For now you do not need to do anything to use the preconfigured JRE to continue.

Start Rational^® Functional Tester and then perform the following tasks before you record your first test script.

Set logging options

Rational Functional Tester provides several logging options. We will use the HTML log.

Click Windows > Open Perspective > Other to open the functional test perspective. In the Open Perspective dialog box, select the Functional Test option.
To verify that HTML logging is set, click Window > Preferences.
In the left pane of the Preferences window, expand Functional Test, then Playback, and click Logging.
Verify that the Use Default check box is selected and that html appears in the Log type field.
Click OK.

This setting opens the HTML log automatically after you play back a script.

Create a Functional Tester project

Before you can start recording, you must create a Functional Tester project.

In the Functional Tester menu, click File > New > Functional Test Project.
Under Project name, type FTtutorial (no spaces).
Under Project location, type C:\FTproject. Functional Tester creates this directory.
If the source control option is available, do not select Add the project to Source Control.
If the associate project option is available, do not select Associate the Functional Test Project with current Rational Project.
Click Finish.

The FTtutorial project is now visible in the Functional Test Projects view, which is the left pane in the Functional Test perspective.

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