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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integrations in Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
Testing with Rational® ClearCase®
As you develop your Rational® Functional Tester test scripts and the supporting files that accompany those scripts, you can use Rational ClearCase® as your software configuration management system to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
Switching between Rational® ClearCase® and Rational® ClearCase® Remote Client
If you have installed both IBM® Rational® ClearCase® and Rational ClearCase Remote Client on your computer, you can switch between the two software configuration management systems by specifying the software configuration management client type in the ivory.properties file.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installing
  In this section, you will learn about two ways to install the product. In the first approach, you use an executable file to directly install the product in an easy manner. In the second approach, you download and install IBM® Installation Manager and then use that tool to install the product.
- Starting Rational® Functional Tester from the command line
  You can start Rational® Functional Tester from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Integrations in UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use ant to run functional tests from the command line. Starting with version 2.0 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously. Version 2.0 of the ant plugin is supported in HCL OneTest™ UI 9.2 and newer.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps for Functional tests
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL OneTest™ UI and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest UI by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - Testing with Cucumber
    Starting with Rational® Functional Tester 9.2, you can take advantage of Cucumber integration to create, annotate, and run functional test scripts that can be easily understood by all members of the team.
  - Integrating and running Functional Test scripts in Micro Focus Application Life Cycle Management
    To obtain test result details, you can integrate and run Functional Test scripts in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management by using a ready-made template available in the HCL OneTest™ UI installation directory.
  - Testing with IBM® Engineering Test Management
    Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM® Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from Rational Functional Tester.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the HCL OneTest™ UI Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting with v9.2, you can use the Maven plug-in to run Functional Test scripts. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM). You can use the Maven plug-in that is provided to run tests as part of your Maven build.
  - Testing with Rational® ClearCase®
    As you develop your Rational® Functional Tester test scripts and the supporting files that accompany those scripts, you can use Rational ClearCase® as your software configuration management system to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
    - Switching between Rational® ClearCase® and Rational® ClearCase® Remote Client
      If you have installed both IBM® Rational® ClearCase® and Rational ClearCase Remote Client on your computer, you can switch between the two software configuration management systems by specifying the software configuration management client type in the ivory.properties file.
    - Rational® ClearCase®
      When you use Rational® ClearCase® with Rational Functional Tester, you have a choice of snapshot or dynamic views with Rational ClearCase. There are advantages and disadvantages to each view.
  - Testing with Rational® Team Concert™
    IBM® Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Rational Team Concert™ (formerly known as Rational Team Concert). You can manage functional test assets by using the Jazz™ source control management that the Jazz Eclipse Client provides. You must have a compatible version of Rational Team Concert server set up to use the Jazz source control management.
  - Testing with Tivoli Composite Application Manager
    Rational® Functional Tester can be integrated with IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager. You can schedule the interval at which the application manager agent runs to track the response time and generate logs using Rational Functional Tester scripts.
  - Testing with UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can run functional test scripts remotely with the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester plug-in for UrbanCode™ Deploy.

Switching between Rational® ClearCase® and Rational® ClearCase® Remote Client

If you have installed both IBM® Rational® ClearCase® and Rational® ClearCase® Remote Client on your computer, you can switch between the two software configuration management systems by specifying the software configuration management client type in the ivory.properties file.

Before you begin

To modify the ivory.properties file, you must have the appropriate permission.

Procedure

Close Rational® Functional Tester
Open the ivory.properties file available in the <product installation directory>\Functional Tester\bin\ folder
Set the rational.test.ft.cm.clienttype parameter to CCRC or NATIVE_CC. For example, if you set the rational.test.ft.cm.clienttype=CCRC, Rational® Functional Tester uses Rational® ClearCase® Remote Client to connect to the repository.
Note: You can use only one software configuration management client type in a session.
Save the ivory.properties file and start Rational® Functional Tester.
Important: While sharing a project, do not select Rational® Functional Tester from the repository list. This might result in unexpected behavior and data loss.