When you create a Functional Tester project, you can use the project
separately, or associate it with a Rational project to take advantage of the
integration features with TestManager.
After you run a suite or a script, TestManager writes the results
to a log. You use the Test Log window of TestManager to view the logs. For
more information about suites or managing logs, see the TestManager Help.
A
testing cycle can have many individual tests for specific areas of an application.
Reviewing test results in the Test Log window reveals whether each test passed
or failed. Review and analysis of the results help determine the progress
of your software development effort and whether a failure is a defect or a
design change.
You can use the Test Log window of TestManager to:
- View results.
- Filter log data.
- Open the script that generates a log event in the appropriate script
development tool. For example, if you create a Functional Tester script and
run it from TestManager, when you click a log event, Functional Tester opens
the script.
- Analyze the results of a log in the Functional Tester Verification
Point Comparator.
- Submit a defect for a failed test case or for a failed log event. The
log fills in build, configuration, and script information in the Rational® ClearQuest® defect
form.
- Preview or print data displayed in the active log in the Test Log window.
Note:
- When you associate a Functional Tester project with a Rational project
and set the Functional Tester logging preferences to
TestManager, the logs generated appear after you run
a script are TestManager logs. TestManager stores these logs as part of a
Rational project. For information about using the Test Log window of TestManager,
see the Rational TestManager Help.
- You must use the Rational Administrator to give write privileges that
allow Functional Tester users to run Functional Tester scripts, manage, and
view Functional Tester logs from TestManager. If you do not give write privileges
to the appropriate Functional Tester users, TestManager does not create a
log or play back the Functional Tester script. For information about privileges
and the Test Group dialog box, see the Rational Administrator Help.
Note: To view the Rational TestManager version
that can be integrated with Rational Functional Tester, see List of supported domains for functional testing
by releases of Rational Functional Tester tech. note.