Java for Rational Functional Tester v7.0

Overview

This one-day course is designed to provide students with the foundation in Java necessary for the Advanced IBM Rational Functional Tester course. This course can be taken standalone or in conjunction with the basic or advanced IBM Rational Functional Tester courses. This course is intended for users of IBM Rational Functional Tester seeking to gain Java skills necessary to customize test scripts.

This seminar is designed for users of IBM Rational Functional Tester who need to test Java and Web applications. The course is designed primarily for testing professionals who will be using the automation tools.

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:

Explain key concepts related to Java technology and Java programming
Illustrate the use of decision constructs and loops
Depict the creation of Java classes
Illustrate the development and usage of methods
Depict the creation and use single and multi-dimensional arrays
Understand the use inheritance to extend classes
Illustrate how to handle runtime exceptions
Understand inheritance and polymorphism
Depict the parse strings using String, StringBuffer and StringTokenizer
Examine basic Java language fundamentals (data types, control flow structures, arrays) U
- Use of Class creation
- Method creation
- Method overloading
- Use of Container classes (Vector, ArrayList, Hashtable)
- Depict Object oriented concepts (Inheritance, polymorphism)
- Exceptions Interfaces

Prerequisites

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

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Course duration

1 Day

Course outline

Introduction to OO Concepts

Depict differences with procedural
Basic tenets of OO
- Abstraction
- Encapsulation
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
Understand the role of a Class
Basic Class attributes
- Properties
- Methods
- Interfaces
- Super Class concept

Java Data Types and Variables

Java primitives
- int
- short
- byte
- boolean
- float
- double
Integer data types
Assignment statements
Increment/Decrement
Prefix/Postfix
Use of explicit casting
String
Character and Boolean

Role of Exception Handling

Defining Exceptions
Error vs Exception classes
Runtime exception errors
throws statement
try/catch blocks
finally block
Execution patterns
throw statement

Java Arrays

Defining arrays
Array declaration
Accessing array elements
Substituting array length
Multi-dimensional arrays

Java Class Definitions

Class vs instance variables
Class vs instance methods
Java class definition structure
Parameter passing
Passing parameters
Static method calls
Initialization blocks
Constructors
Variable vs Object declaration
Method overloading
Java packages
package statement
Class access options: public, private, protected

Java Collections

Defining Container Classes

Depict classes
- List
- Iterator
- HashMap
- Vectors