Testing flex applications with IBM Rational functional Tester 7.0.1

The necessary information about this article

This article assumes that you are already familiar with the basic concepts of automated testing using ibm®rational®functional Tester. Check out the links in the Reference Resources section for an introduction to Rational functional Tester.

Goal

Learn about scenarios for various test adobe®flex® applications.

Configure a Flex development environment for Rational functional Tester.

Establish automated test actions for Flex applications.

Record and replay a script on a Flex application.

Necessary conditions

Rational Functional Tester V7.0.1

Microsoft®internet Explorer 6.0

Adobe Flex SDK 2.0 or later

Adobe Flex Automation Package

Adobe Flash Player 9.0.28.0 or later

Apache HTTP Server (if your application needs to work on a server.) Here are some information on the Runtimeloading component understanding)

Assume

Testing flex applications with the Rational functional Tester requires collaboration between flex developers and testers. This guide assumes that the following individual roles are true.

Development staff

A certain understanding of the development and editing of Flex applications

Is the programmer who writes the Flex application source code and understands the flex SDK and the automation Framework

Complete knowledge of WEB server configuration and deployment

Probably not familiar to Rational functional Tester.

Test staff

No source code for the application

No Flex SDK and automation Framework

may not be familiar with Web server configuration and deployment