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Hello World: Learn how to create robust, reusable automated functional tests with Rational Functional Tester

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Level: Intermediate

Dennis Schultz (dennis.schultz@us.ibm.com), Marketing Engineer, IBM

24 Oct 2006

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Get an overview of Rational Functional Tester in this basic tutorial, which includes demos and hello world exercises. You'll need to download the free trial version of Rational Functional Tester. Step through a few practical exercises to get a feel for how IBM® Rational® Functional Tester lets you create robust, automated functional tests. Learn how to record automated functional tests, enhance the tests through Java™ scripting, and playback those tests as part of a functional regression test suite.

Objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should understand the basic functions of Rational Functional Tester and be able to create automated functional regression tests as demonstrated in the exercises.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is for testers new to test automation. A general familiarity with the Java programming language is helpful, but not required.


System requirements

To run the examples in this tutorial, you'll need to install IBM Rational Functional Tester. You can download and install a free trial version of the product if you don't already own a copy. This product is available for both Microsoft® Windows® and Linux™ on x86-compatible chips; the instructions in this tutorial assume that you will be running Windows, but Linux users should be able to adapt them to that environment without difficulty.

To view the demos included in this tutorial, JavaScript must be enabled in your browser and Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher must be installed. You can download the latest Flash Player at http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer/.



Duration

Less than one hour


Formats

html, pdf


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