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Software Test Engineering with IBM Rational Functional Tester The Definitive Resource

by: Davis, Chip; Chirillo, Daniel; Gouveia, Daniel; Saracevic, Fariz; Bocarsley, Jeffrey B.; Quesada, Larry; Thomas, Lee B.; van Lint, Marc

Software Test Engineering with IBM Rational Functional Tester The Definitive Resource

by: Davis, Chip; Chirillo, Daniel; Gouveia, Daniel; Saracevic, Fariz; Bocarsley, Jeffrey B.; Quesada, Larry; Thomas, Lee B.; van Lint, Marc

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0137000669
Edition: 1st
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Copyright: 10/23/2009
Publisher: IBM Press

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Summary

The Indispensable Resource for Automated Testing

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
About the Authors	p. xxi
Overview of Rational Functional Tester	p. 1
Architecture of Rational Functional Tester	p. 1
Installation and Licensing	p. 4
Enabling the Environment for Testing	p. 8
Configuring Applications for Testing	p. 11
Configuring Object Recognition Properties	p. 12
Recording a First Script	p. 12
Playing Back a Script and Viewing Results	p. 20
Script Editing and Augmentation	p. 22
ScriptAssure	p. 37
Playback Settings	p. 49
Storyboard Testing	p. 54
Overview of Storyboard Testing	p. 54
Similarities and Differences to Chapter 1	p. 55
Enabling Storyboard Testing	p. 56
Recording a First Script	p. 57
Playing Back a Script and Viewing Results	p. 72
Script Editing and Augmentation	p. 77
Setting Preferences for Storyboard Testing	p. 83
General Script Enhancements	p. 85
Test Script Synchronization	p. 85
Placing a Generic Delay in Your Script	p. 86
Waiting for Test Objects to Come into Existence	p. 88
Timing How Long Something Takes to Execute in a Script	p. 93
Working with Test Objects	p. 98
Working with the Clipboard Object	p. 98
Viewing an Object's Properties	p. 105
Retrieving All Properties of a Test Object	p. 110
Retrieving the Value of a Single Property	p. 112
Programmatically Retrieving Data from an Object in My Application	p. 113
Determining a Test Object's Valid Test Data Type Arguments to getTestData()	p. 116
Using getTestData to Extract Data from a Text Field	p. 117
Using getTestData to Extract Data from a List	p. 118
Using getTestData() to Read Data in a Table	p. 121
Using getTestData() to Extract Data from a Tree	p. 126
Obtaining Data from a Test Object That the Rational Functional Tester Verification Point Wizard Does Not Capture	p. 130
Creating a Custom Verification Point	p. 131
Changing the Value of a Test Object's Property	p. 135
Evolving Custom Scripting into Reusable Methods	p. 136
XML and Rational Functional Tester	p. 144
Handling XML in Rational Functional Tester	p. 144
Using the XML DOM with Rational Functional Tester	p. 146
Processing XML with SAX in Rational Functional Tester	p. 167
Managing Script Data	p. 176
Accessing Rational Functional Tester Datapools	p. 176
Database Access from Java and.NET	p. 184
Handling User-Specific Runtime Variables	p. 197
Debugging Scripts	p. 207
Common Debugging Concepts	p. 207
Debugging in Eclipse	p. 210
Debugging in Visual Studio	p. 216
Managing Script Execution	p. 221
Setting Execution Options Within Your Scripts	p. 221
Manipulating Playback Options Within Scripts	p. 222
Flow Control	p. 224
Returning Values from My Scripts	p. 263
Developing Regression Scripts	p. 267
Executing a Functional Tester Script from the Command Line	p. 281
Scheduling Script Execution	p. 288
Executing a Functional Tester Script from a Plain Java Class	p. 288
Handling Unsupported Domain Objects	p. 290
Rational Functional Tester and Unsupported Objects	p. 290
Using Rational Functional Tester with Unsupported Objects	p. 291
Unsupported Objects on Windows and Linux	p. 300
Advanced Rational Functional Tester Object Map Topics	p. 301
Rational Functional Tester Object Map	p. 301
Rational Functional Tester Object Recognition Framework	p. 307
Customizing Recognition Properties and Weights	p. 318
Renaming Test Objects (ScriptHelper Methods)	p. 320
Searching the Object Map	p. 322
Sharing Test Objects Between Multiple Scripts	p. 326
Advanced Scripting with Rational Functional Tester TestObjects	p. 330
Mapped TestObjects and Unmapped TestObjects	p. 331
Unregistering TestObjects	p. 331
Finding Objects Dynamically	p. 332
Handling Third-Party Controls	p. 342
How Many Different Ways Are There to Capture Data from a Control in Rational Functional Tester?	p. 359
Testing Specialized Applications	p. 362
Why Rational Functional Tester Won't Test Every Application	p. 362
Extension for Terminal-Based Applications	p. 363
Recording the Test Script	p. 365
SAP	p. 368
Siebel	p. 379
Recording the Test Script (Siebel)	p. 382
Adobe Flex	p. 384
Recording the Test Script (Flex)	p. 391
Extending Rational Functional Tester with External Libraries	p. 396
Testing PDF Files	p. 396
Writing to a Custom Log File with Log4j and Log4net	p. 419
Interfacing with COM Scriptable Components	p. 449
Building Support for New Objects with the Proxy SDK	p. 477
Figuring Out Which Proxy to Extend	p. 478
Creating a Proxy Project	p. 483
Adding Object Recognition	p. 490
Verifying Object Properties	p. 497
Verifying Object Data	p. 505
Executing a Click Using Object Information	p. 514
Building the Proxy	p. 523
Mapping the Proxy	p. 528
Taking an Easier Path	p. 533
Debugging a Proxy	p. 539
Developing Scripts in the VB.NET Environment	p. 543
Installing Rational Functional Tester into Visual Studio.NET	p. 543
Locating Projects on Network Shares	p. 543
Reusing Code	p. 545
Using Rational Functional Tester in a Linux Environment	p. 548
Installation	p. 548
Using Rational Functional Tester	p. 553
Internationalized Testing with Rational Functional Tester	p. 569
Unicode and Rational Functional Tester	p. 569
Handling Internationalized Data in Rational Functional Tester	p. 572
Setting Up an Internationalized Test in Rational Functional Tester	p. 574
Modifying a Language-Specific Object Map	p. 592
Modifying Language-Specific Verification Points	p. 596
Modifying Language-Specific Datapools	p. 598
A Fully Internationalized Driver Script	p. 600
A Target Script for the Internationalized Driver Script	p. 602
The Real World	p. 604
Advanced Logging Techniques	p. 606
Sending Test Results Via Email	p. 606
Transforming the XML Log by Using XSL	p. 612
Creating Your Own RSS Log Type	p. 622
Regular Expressions in Rational Functional Tester	p. 632
Using Regular Expressions in Rational Functional Tester Scripts	p. 633
Writing Regular Expressions	p. 634
Index	p. 650
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Software Test Engineering with IBM Rational Functional Tester The Definitive Resource

Software Test Engineering with IBM Rational Functional Tester The Definitive Resource

9780137000661

0137000669

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