Use the recording feature of IBM® IBM Rational Functional Tester, to record actions on
the test applications. The actions on the test applications are generated
in the form of a simplified test script when you stop recording. The
generated simplified test script is displayed in the simplified Script editor
in IBM Rational Functional Tester. You can also
view the corresponding Java™ code
of the recorded test script in the Java script
editor.
Before you begin
Prerequisites:
- The Enable Simplified Scripting option
is enabled on the Functional Tester Preferences page.
- The test application and the required environments must be configured
for functional testing.
- A functional test project is created.
Procedure
- Click .
- On the Record a Functional Test Script page,
select the project to which the script must be associated. Type a
name for the script.
- Optional: Select Add the script
to Source Control to put the script under source control.
- Click Next.
- Optional: On the Select Script Assets page,
modify the test object map, helper superclass, and test datapool if
you do not want to use the default settings.
- Click Finish to start recording. The Recording Monitor opens and the recording
starts.
- In the Recording Monitor toolbar,
click Start Application(
) to start your
test application.
- Perform any action in the test application. The
recording monitor displays the actions that you perform as English
statements.
- Optional: You can record verification points
or data-drive your test script using the tools available in the Recording
Monitor toolbar while recording the script.
- Optional: To insert statements to call another
script, specify log information, timer or comments during recording,
click Insert Script Support Commands in the Recording
Monitor toolbar.
- Click Stop recording (
) when you finish recording. A simplified
test script is generated and displayed in the simplified Script editor.