Automate integration testing of Web applications using rational functional Tester V8.1

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Introduction: Manual testing of WEB applications is a wrong-leaning task. Automated tests liberate testers from input test data and build results. This article describes how to use the Ibm®rational®functional Tester V8.1 to automate the integration test operations of a WEB application.

Benefits of Automated integration testing

During the integration testing of the software development lifecycle, individual software artifacts are merged and tested as a group. In a java™enterprise Edition (JEE) Web application, software artifacts are typically HTML or javaserver™pages (JSP), JavaScript libraries, servlet, Java modules, database drivers, and so on. The integration testing phase begins after the development phase, when a single software component has been tested for unit, which occurs before the customer takes the test.

The goal of the integration testing phase is to ensure that the software is ready for the end user to run beta testing. Testing a WEB application manually is a task that can easily lead to errors. Automated testing guarantees that there will be no errors, and that the run-time process no longer requires testers to enter test data, so it is more efficient and quicker to operate.

This article describes an automated integration test operation that uses Ibm®rational®functional Tester V8.1 to run a WEB application.

Configure the WEB application to test

Click Window > Open Perspective > Other to open the functional Test view.

In the Open view, select Functional Test, and then click OK.

Figure 1. Open View Window