Advanced Rational Functional Tester v7.0

Overview

This two-day course is designed for testing professionals already familiar with Java programming and the fundamentals of IBM Rational Functional Tester. The course explores advanced tool use through Java programming. In addition to class lecture, students will complete lab exercises to reinforce critical tool and language concepts, and gain hands-on experience guided by an expert instructor.

This course is designed for anyone already familiar with both Functional Tester and Java programming and wants exposure to advanced techniques with the tool as applied to functional GUI testing.

Audience

Developers and programming professionals that will be using IBM�s Rational Functional Tester for building successful test scripts.

Objectives

Upon conclusion participants will have acquired these skills:

Depict the parsing of strings using regular expressions
Understand the extraction of data from objects
Illustrate the discovery of dynamic objects
Create dynamic verification points
Demonstrate the reading and writing to files
Depict the submission of SQL calls directly to databases
Examination of regular Expressions
Illustrate the capturing of dynamic data from objects
Depict usage of Helper Super Classes
Demonstrate dynamic object tracking
Understand usage of Custom Verification Points
Illustrate the integration of File I/O
Depict the submitting of SQL calls via JDBC
Understand the handling Non-Java Windows and non-Browser Windows

Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of the application development process and the functional abilities of the Rational Functional Tester.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Course duration

2 Days

Course outline

Performance Testing Methodology

Basic testing concepts
Underlying strategies
Performance testing lifecycle
Designing Test plans
- Purpose and role
- Workload analysis
- Monitoring strategies

Use of Test Automation

Best practices
Role of navigational modularization
Create reusable testing assets
Using service reporting
- Response time
- Reliability
- Application availability
Detecting errors
Error handling
Data correlation
- Random selection
- HTML FORM option
Rich client testing
- Active/X
- Applets
- Web clients
Testing multi-part forms
SOA service testing
- Defining SOA
- What are services
- Best practices

Functional Tests with External Data

Data Driven Tests
Use of Datapools
- Adding realistic data
- Importing data
- Manual creation
- Editing
Exporting Datapools
Datapools and verification points
Linking scripts and datapools

Scripts and Keywords

Role of keywords
Adding keywords
Link keywords and scripts

Automated Test Execution

Playback architecture
Optimization techniques
Component performance monitoring and tuning
Testing best practices

Basic Test Analysis

Understanding returned statistics
Creating usable results
Perform cause analysis
Best practices-results presentation
Ancillary tools for analysis
- MS Excel
- Presentation techniques