The GUI Interaction Action is used to interact with functional
testing tools that are integrated with Rational® Integration Tester.
With the GUI Interaction test action, you can specify an existing
GUI test script to be executed from Rational Integration Tester.
Before you begin
Before you can edit the GUI Interaction test action, at least
one of the GUI test clients (TestDrive or QuickTest Professional)
must be installed and configured on the local machine (that is, the
same machine as
Rational Integration Tester),
and the path to the client installation must be specified in the Library
Manager (see
Working with the Library Manager).
About this task
You test a GUI in IBM® Rational Integration Tester by
using the separately licensed test modules TestDrive and QuickTest
Professional. With the GUI Interaction test action, you can specify
an existing GUI test script to be executed from Rational Integration Tester.
Procedure
- Open the test action and select TestDrive from
the Functional Testing Tool menu.
- Under the Config tab,
specify an existing connection to the TestDrive server under the Connection field
– which is an ODBC Connection that must be configured in TestDrive
before it can be selected in the test action.
- Next to the Script field,
click Browse to locate and select an existing
script or action map from the TestDrive database.
The items available
depend upon the ODBC Connection that was specified.
- Select the wanted script or action map and
click OK to close the dialog.
Note: When you are working with action maps, tracked fields
are not supported, but input data sets are.
If
the selected script or action map includes variables, they are displayed
in a grid under the Values tab.
These variables can be edited within the test action,
and tags can be inserted from the menu for any of the fields.
- Double-click a field to edit it. Then, right-click
in the active field to open the menu.
Note: Any
variables that are modified in the test action are modified in the
TestDrive database.
- Under the Store tab
you can specify whether any of the variable data from the script are
stored into tags.
- When finished editing the test action, click OK.
When the GUI Interaction test action is executed
from the test, IBM Rational Integration Tester launches
TestDrive and execute the selected script or action map. The results
of the run are displayed in the console, the same as with any other Rational Integration Tester test.