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Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL OneTest™ UI. You can find the task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest UI. This guide is intended for new users.
Getting started in the Functional Test perspective
With the Functional Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for native or hybrid applications.
Task flow: Testing SAP applications
The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the SAP application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL OneTest™ UI. You can find the task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest UI. This guide is intended for new users.
- Rational® Functional Tester overview
  Rational® Functional Tester is an object-oriented automated functional testing tool that tests HTML, including HTML 5, Java, Windows, .NET, Visual Basic, SAP, Silverlight, Eclipse, Siebel, Flex, Ajax, Dojo, GEF and PowerBuilder applications. With its ability to test HTML 5-based applications and UI frameworks, Rational Functional Tester also tests the user interface of Web applications on the desktop and on mobile devices.
- Setting up Rational® Functional Tester
  The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for setting up IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
- Creating a project
  The tests that you create, and the assets associated with the tests, reside in a project on your desktop. You can create the project separately, or you can simply record a test, which automatically creates a project named testproj.
- The UI Test perspective
  With the UI Test perspective, you can quickly create and run functional tests for the web applications. It gives you a recording and natural language scripting environment to test browser applications that use HTML5 and JQuery. You can test on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers.
- Getting started in the Functional Test perspective
  With the Functional Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for native or hybrid applications.
  - The Functional Test perspective
    The Functional Test perspective has components that are displayed automatically when you start Rational® Functional Tester: the product menu, toolbar, Projects view, Script (simplified) editor, Java™ editor, Script Explorer, Console view, Tasks view, Application view, Keyword view, Properties view, and the status bar.
  - Importing a sample functional test project
    One way to get started quickly with Rational® Functional Tester is to import the sample functional test project that is provided with IBM® Rational Functional Tester. The sample project includes sample test scripts that you can use. When you import the sample project, it is copied to your Eclipse workspace.
  - Task flow: Testing applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flow: Testing Java applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Java application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flow: Testing HTML applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the HTML application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flow: Testing Eclipse applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Eclipse application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flow: Testing SAP applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the SAP application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Task flow: Testing Flex applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Flex application using Rational® Functional Tester.
  - Using the Functional Test perspective of Rational® Functional Tester on Linux
    For the Functional Test perspective, most features are supported on Linux®, except for recording the scripts. This topic provides an overview about how Rational® Functional Tester behaves on Linux.
- Task flow: Integrating Rational® Functional Tester and Rational® Integration Tester
  You can execute integration tests in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester by using IBM Rational Functional Tester Extension for Rational Integration Tester. In IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can create a compound test to run the integration tests by using agents.

Task flow: Testing SAP applications

The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the SAP application using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

Although the diagram implies that each task is completed sequentially, you can do many of the tasks at the same time.

The diagram shows the task flow for testing Java applications using IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

Testing
SAP applications using Rational Functional Tester task flow

Basic tester: A basic tester can record functional test scripts that are generated as simplified test scripts. The tester does not require programming knowledge to edit the functional test scripts. The tester can switch to Java scripting, and use the Insert Java Code Snippet or Insert Java Method features that are available in the simplified script editor. The tester then starts to work with the Java test script directly. You can use the application visuals to insert verification points, data-driven commands, and additional controls for testing.

Advanced tester with scripting knowledge: A tester with Java or Visual Basic programming knowledge can either record functional test scripts or create the test scripts manually. You can use the test object maps to update the objects and insert additional objects for testing.