Functional Test projects and Rational projects

When you create a Functional Test project, you can use the project stand-alone, or associate it with a Rational® project to take advantage of the HCL OneTest™ UI integration features with TestManager if you have TestManager installed.

When you associate an existing Functional Test project with the current Rational® project, you can use TestManager to play back Functional Test scripts, use the TestManager Agent to play back scripts on a remote computer, and manage logs from TestManager. You must have Rational® Administrator and TestManager installed to use these integrated features.

You can associate a project with a Rational® project when you create a Functional Test project, or associate an existing project with a Rational project.

The benefits of associating a Functional Test project with the current Rational® project are:

  • You can manage all of your testing assets from one Rational® project.
  • You can play back all Functional Test scripts from Rational® TestManager.
  • You can play back a Functional Test script on different computers using Rational® Test Agents that you set up through TestManager.
  • You can manage logs, including HCL OneTest™ UI logs, using the Test Log window of TestManager.
  • You can use TestManager reports to get information about the results of running HCL OneTest™ UI test scripts and get coverage reports for a testing project.
  • You can use a TestManager suite to coordinate the way that scripts run. Often several scripts and computers can be involved in a test. You can use suites to run scripts in parallel on the computers that are available so that your tests can run more quickly.
Note:
  • The name of the Rational® project that you associate with a Functional Test project appears next to the name of the Functional Test project in the Projects view, for example, as: MyFTProject - MyRationalProject where MyRationalProject is the name of the Rational® project.
  • You can disassociate a Functional Test project anytime.

Note: To view the Rational TestManager version that can be integrated with HCL OneTest™ UI, see List of supported domains for functional testing by releases of HCL OneTest™ UI tech. note.

Related Topics:

Creating a Rational project

Associating a HCL OneTest™ UI Project with a Rational Project

Disassociating a HCL OneTest™ UI Project from a Rational Project