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Functional testing with Rational Robot

Becoming productive with IBM Rational Robot

Dennis SchultzIBM
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:  This tutorial demonstrates how to use IBM Rational Robot to record, edit, and execute functional regression tests. It will give you a jump-start on using Rational Robot by showing the basic steps of installing the product, creating the necessary datastores, launching the tool, using it to record manual interactions with a sample application, editing the resulting test script, and playing it back against another build of the application to uncover a functional regression.

Date:  19 Mar 2007 (Published 18 Jan 2005)
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (828 KB | 32 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

This tutorial walks you through the basics of installing, configuring, and using Rational® Robot to record, edit, and execute functional regression tests. This tutorial does not attempt to cover all the varied aspects and capabilities of the Rational Robot package. It gives you a jump-start on using Rational Robot by showing the basic steps of installing the product, creating the necessary datastores, launching the tool, using it to record manual interactions with a sample application, editing the resulting test script, and playing it back against another build of the application to uncover a functional regression.

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Who should take this tutorial?

This tutorial is designed for software testers who are first-time users of IBM® Rational Robot. The tutorial will help you create, execute, and edit your first Rational Robot regression testing script. Along the way, you will be introduced to the challenges of regression testing and learn about the solutions Rational Robot offers to address these challenges.

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Prerequisites

To complete the steps and exercises in this tutorial, you will need to download IBM Rational Robot.

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Rational license enforcement

Rational Robot uses Rational Common Licensing. This means that once you install Rational Robot, you will need a temporary license key. Temporary license keys can be acquired through your Rational Account Representative at 1-800-728-1212. Your Rational Account Representative will send you either a key code string or e-mail you a .upd file. Keep these handy -- you will need them in Installing the temporary license key.

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About the author

For technical questions or comments about the content of this tutorial, contact Dennis at dennis.schultz@us.ibm.com.

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