Rational Functional Tester proxy SDK

Extend automated functional testing support for your application's user interface controls.

• Introduction to proxy SDK
  With Rational Functional Tester proxy software development kit (SDK) you can extend automated functional testing support for your application's user interface controls (GUI test objects), beyond what is provided by Functional Tester by default. The proxy SDK provides detailed documentation, API references and ready-to-use samples and tutorials on how to extend Functional Tester to add support for testing new controls. It also helps you to extend already supported controls from the existing domains. You can develop proxies manually or by using the proxy wizards driven approach.

• Functional Tester architecture
  Rational Functional Tester can be extended to perform additional functions for which it needs to communicate with the application under test (AUT). To do that Functional Tester first establishes a communication channel to the AUT which is called enablement.

• Proxy development
  A challenge in functional testing is the variety of user interface (UI) frameworks that are available (for example, Java and HTML) and controls (for example, button and table) that testing must support. UI frameworks differ in architecture and programming models and the controls differ in their inheritance hierarchy, methods, properties data, and user actions.

• TestObjects
  TestObjects are the script-side interfaces for proxies and application under test (AUT) controls. A TestObject is a connection point between the test script and a ProxyObject that connects to the real object in the AUT. During recording, statements are recorded and objects are added to the Object Map. The script uses the information from the Object Map to construct and find TestObjects.