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Hello World: Rational Functional Tester

Create robust, reusable automated functional tests

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

Dennis Schultz joined Rational in 1995 as a technical sales engineer. For eight years, he worked closely with numerous clients, implementing Rational solutions in their projects. Dennis helped deploy solutions for software configuration management, change management, requirements management, and test management and implementation. Since 2003, Dennis has been a Technical Marketing Engineer for IBM Rational software. Dennis holds a B.S. in computer engineering from Iowa State University. He is based in St. Louis, Missouri, and fills his non-work time with his four children.

Summary: 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. This is the fifth in a series of Hello World tutorials, which provide high-level overviews of the key IBM software products.

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Date: 24 Oct 2005
Level: Intermediate
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Before you start

About this series

This series is for novices who want high-level overviews of IBM software products. The modules are designed to introduce the products and draw your interest for further exploration. The exercises only cover the basic concepts, but are enough to get you started.

About this tutorial

This tutorial provides a high-level overview of IBM Rational Functional Tester and gives you the opportunity to practice using it with hands-on exercises. Step-by-step instructions show you how to record an automated functional test, enhance the test through Java scripting, and play back the test 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.

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