Functional Tester preferences
You use the Preferences dialog box to customize various aspects of Functional Tester, such as settings for time options; colors for the Verification Point Editor, the Verification Point Comparator, and the Object Map Editor; highlight color for test objects; operating system; playback; delays; log; playback monitor; ScriptAssure(TM); recorder; recording monitor; and the workbench.
To display the Rational Functional Tester Preferences page, from the Functional Tester menu, click Window > Preferences and expand Functional Test in the left pane.
To display the Functional Tester ClearCase® Preferences page, from the Functional Tester menu click Window > Preferences, expand Team in the left pane, and click Functional Test.
Use the Functional Tester preferences pages to set options in the following areas:
Editing the Functional Tester preferences pages changes the current user profile only. It does not change settings for all users.
You can change the color settings of information in the Verification Point Editor, Verification Point Comparator, and Object Map. Functional Tester changes the color of elements in the editor. You can also change the fonts for information in the .NET IDE. The colors and fonts feature is useful for enhancing the accessibility for people who have physical challenges, such as restricted mobility or limited vision. For more information, see the Colors Page.
Some Functional Tester, Java Scripting preferences and Functional Tester, VB.NET Scripting options are shared by both IDEs. For example, if you turn a preference on or off in one IDE, the same behavior occurs in the other IDE.
- Setting functional test preferences
You use the Preferences dialog box to customize Functional Tester in a number of different areas, such as settings for time options; colors for the Verification Point Editor, the Verification Point Comparator, and the Object Map Editor; highlight color for test objects; operating system; playback; delays; log; playback monitor; ScriptAssure(TM); recorder; recording monitor; and the workbench.- Change the verification point and object map colors
You can change the color of information displayed in the Verification Point Editor, Verification Point Comparator, and Object Map. This feature is useful for enhancing the accessibility for people with disabilities.- Change the syntax of Verification Point commands
During recording, a verification point captures information about a specified GUI component, for example, its size or its position. Functional Tester records a statement in the test script for each verification point.- Change user interface fonts
You can change the font and point size of information displayed in dialog boxes for Functional Tester and those that are part of the Eclipse IDE. For IDE dialog boxes and the Java Editor, you do this through the Workbench Preferences.- ClearCase preferences
If you use ClearCase for source control management, you can use the ClearCase Preferences page to define settings for Functional Tester integration, show ClearCase icons, show script details, save file with _keep extension, check out a file reserved, or to keep a script checked out after check in.- Functional Tester page
You use the General Rational Functional Tester page to set all Functional Tester time options. These options are useful to accommodate different computer speeds.- Colors page
You use the tabs on the Colors page to specify color settings for the Verification Point Editor, Verification Point Comparator, and the Object Map Editor. This feature is also useful for enhancing the accessibility for people who have physical challenges, such as limited vision.- Highlight page
You use the Highlight page to specify how you want Functional Tester to emphasize test objects in applications-under-test when you select them in a test object map or in the Script Explorer. These settings also control how Functional Tester highlights objects you select with the Verification Point and Action Wizard and the Insert a GUI Object into the Object Map dialog box.- Logging and Tracing page
IBM IBM Rational Functional Tester allows you to collect the errors and warning messages into a log file (rft_log.txt). Similarly, it provides the facility to collect debug information as trace data into a trace file (rft_trace.txt). The logging and tracing functionality is controlled through certain configurable parameters such as level, file size, directory. With IBM Rational Functional Tester you can configure the ‘level' parameter for individual components. If a log and trace level is not defined explicitly for a component, then it defaults to the overall setting defined in the general page. With IBM Rational Functional Tester, you can set the preferences for logging and tracing through an user interface.- Logging page
You use the Logging page to set log and comparator options, such as preventing the script launch wizard from displaying on playback, displaying the log viewer after playback, and displaying a message before overwriting an existing log. You also use this page to indicate the type of log generated.- Operating System page
You use the Operating System page to indicate the Foreground Lock Timeout setting for Windows 98/Me and Windows 2000/XP systems.- General Playback page
You use the General Playback page to set script playback options, such as the amount of time Functional Tester looks for an object and waits before trying to find an object again. You can also elect to skip all verification points in the script.- Playback preferences example
This topic provides an example of the interaction between settings in the Playback Preferences page.- Delays page
You use the Delays page to set delays during Functional Tester script playback. These settings are useful to control the rate at which script commands are sent to the operating system.- Playback Monitor page
You use the Playback Monitor page to specify whether to display the playback monitor during playback.- ScriptAssure page--Advanced
You use the ScriptAssure(TM) Advanced page to set thresholds for recognition scores, which Functional Tester uses when searching for objects during script playback.- ScriptAssure page-standard
During playback, Functional Tester compares objects in the application-under-test with recognition properties in the test object map. You use the ScriptAssure(TM) Standard page to control object-matching sensitivity during playback. This feature enables you to successfully play back scripts when the application-under-test has been updated.- General Recorder page
You use the General Recorder page to indicate options for recording Functional Tester scripts, such as excluding an executable from being recorded and setting the delay before recording a mouse action or a keystroke. You can also select or clear the option to open the test object map if there is a new test object in the application.- Recorder Monitor page
You use the Recorder Monitor page to change settings in the Recording monitor, such as displaying the recorder toolbar or the Recorder Monitor, including a timestamp for messages, and selecting the types of messages you want to display and their colors.- Mapping keyboard shortcut keys
You can map keyboard shortcut keys in Functional Tester by changing the assignment of a shortcut key to a command. You can change the shortcut key for menu items and toolbar buttons.- Simplified Scripting preference page
Use this page to indicate whether the simplified scripts feature must be enabled while creating the test scripts.- Application Visuals preference page
Use this page to specify whether to capture the application visuals of the test application while recording the test scripts. You can also specify whether to enable the verification points or data-driven commands that are featured in the application visuals so that you can insert them in the script using the application visuals without opening the test application.- Simplified Script Editor preference page
Use this page to specify the preferences for simplified script editor operations such as undo, redo and undo history operations.- Workbench Preferences page
The Workbench Preferences page enables you to indicate how you want the Workbench to behave while playing back, recording, and debugging Functional Tester scripts.- Workbench Advanced Preferences for Functional Tester page
This Advanced page enables you to set advanced Workbench preferences for Functional Tester, such as switching to the Test Debug perspective rather than the Functional Tester perspective when debugging or turning on or off a message when the TestManager log cannot be accessed.