Introduction to proxy SDK

With Rational® Functional Tester proxy software development kit (SDK) you can extend automated functional testing support for your application's user interface controls (GUI test objects), beyond what is provided by Functional Tester by default. The proxy SDK provides detailed documentation, API references and ready-to-use samples and tutorials on how to extend Functional Tester to add support for testing new controls. It also helps you to extend already supported controls from the existing domains. You can develop proxies manually or by using the proxy wizards driven approach.

You can use the Functional Tester proxy SDK to do these tasks:

Add support for an unsupported control
Change or enhance what is recorded for an existing control to make playback more resilient
Add support for sub-items within a control
Add new data verification tests
Make an existing control mappable
Add new properties

Functional Tester proxy SDK supports extending testing support for the following technologies:

Java
.NET
Eclipse
PowerBuilder
Visual Basic
Windows
MFC
ActiveX (Support for controls embedded in HTML running on browsers)
Flex

The current capabilities are as follows:

Extending current level of support provided for GUI TestObjects
Adding support for unsupported controls
Note: You can add support for a new control within the scope of currently supported domains and technologies only. Adding support for new domain is currently not supported.

Before you begin

To extend Functional Tester proxies, you need the following:

Understanding of GUI functional testing
Detailed understanding of the Functional Tester framework
Strong familiarity with the application environment
Knowledge of Java or C# programming based on the proxy framework
Knowledge of operating system concepts is useful but not necessary

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