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 Test 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 Test UI logs, using the Test Log window of TestManager.
• You can use TestManager reports to get information about the results of running Test 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: To view the Rational TestManager version that can be integrated with Test UI, see List of supported domains for functional testing by releases of Test UI tech. note.

Related Topics:

Creating a Rational project

Associating a Test UI Project with a Rational Project

Disassociating a Test UI Project from a Rational Project