Starting Rational Functional Tester from the command line

You can start Rational® Functional Tester from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.

Procedure

For Windows: To start Rational Functional Tester, Eclipse Integration from the command line, type:
<FT installation directory>\eclipse.exe -product com.ibm.rational.rft.product.ide
For Windows: To start Rational Functional Tester Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Integration, from the command line, type:
"<Visual Studio installation directory>\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
For Linux: To start Rational Functional Tester from the command line, close the terminal from where you installed Rational Functional Tester, start a new terminal and type:
<product installation directory>\ft_starter

This is required because product environment variables are set during installation. These environment variables are not available to the shell that started the installation process, and therefore it is recommended that you use a new terminal.
Note:
- On Ubuntu, you must ensure that the environment variables that are set while installing the products are retained when you open Rational Functional Tester and the application-under-test.
- When you launch Rational Functional Tester on Linux, a terminal window opens. You must not close the terminal window manually when the application is in use. When you quit the application, the terminal window closes automatically.