Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client overview

Use IBM® Rational® Test Workbench Eclipse client to create, modify, and run different kinds of tests and to organize test assets. When you use the Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client, you use the Test Workbench perspective and create Test Workbench projects.

You can use Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client to do the following:

Test mobile apps

You can test mobile apps with the Rational Test Workbench mobile extension and the Rational Test Workbench mobile client. The mobile extension adds testing capabilities to the Eclipse client and allows the Eclipse client to interact with the mobile client.

You install the Rational Test Workbench Mobile extension when you install the Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client. You install the Rational Test Workbench mobile client on your Android or iOS device.

From the mobile client, you can upload apps to the Eclipse client, where you can create tests, run the tests, and create reports.

You can record tests directly on your mobile device or on the Eclipse client. Afterwards, you can inspect or customize the test in the Eclipse client and perform several type of edits, such as adding verification points, stubs, test data, and test variables. After editing a test, you can run it on the mobile client or on the Eclipse client, and create reports.

Import and work with Selenium tests

You can use Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client to manage Selenium tests. You can load a Selenium project into the Eclipse client, view the project, modify the tests, and run them.

You install the Rational Test Workbench Selenium extension when you install the Rational Test Workbench Eclipse client. You can also combine Selenium tests with other tests into a compound test.

Combine tests into compound tests

A compound test is a new test asset type that you can use to group tests into larger test flows. The tests in a compound test can all be of the same test type or of a different type. For example, you could group a Selenium test, a mobile test, and a Citrix test all in the same compound test.

Each of the tests in a compound test can run on a different domain, if required, such as a mobile device, or a web browser.

Work with keywords

In the Eclipse client, you can record a test script and then associate it with keywords that are created in Rational Quality Manager. A keyword is a statement or group of statements that you can reuse in other test scripts. Keywords are typically composed of script steps that reflect reusable processes. You can automate keywords through the use of Eclipse client test scripts.

Test HTTP, SAP, Citrix, Socket, Siebel, and TN3270 applications

You can use the Eclipse client to create and runs single-user tests of most of the application extensions supported by Rational Performance Tester.

The Eclipse client shares many common components and extensions (protocols) with Rational Performance Tester, and allows you to do everything that you can do with Rational Performance Tester except load testing and testing SOA.

The following table compares the extensions supported by Rational Performance Test Server with those supported by Rational Test Workbench:

Table 1. Extensions supported in each client
Extensions Rational Performance Tester Rational Test Workbench Eclipse Client
HTTP Y Y
Socket, 3270 Y Y
Citrix Y Y
SAP (GUI) Y Y
Siebel Y Y
SOA Y N
Mobile N Y
Selenium N Y

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