This topic provides the instructions for installing IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
Before you begin
- You can install Rational Functional Tester from
the installation media, or from a download package that is available
on the IBM Passport Advantage site. Before you begin the installation,
obtain the installation media or download the installation package.
- Verify that your computer meets the system requirements, and complete
the preinstallation tasks.
- To enable the Installation
Manager to
search for the latest available version of the packages in the predefined IBM update
repository, make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet.
Procedure
To install Rational Functional Tester on
the Windows or Linux operating systems:
- If you are using the installation media, insert the media
into the disk drive. If you are using the download package, extract
the files from the downloaded .zip package to a temporary directory.
- Open the launchpad program to start the package installation:
- On Windows: Click launchpad.exe.
- On Linux: Click launchpad.sh.
- Click Install Rational Functional Tester.
- On the IBM Installation Manager Start
page, click Install.
- The Install Packages page lists all the packages found
in the repositories that Installation Manager searched. If two versions
of a package are discovered, only the most recent, or recommended,
version of the package is displayed. If Installation
Manager is
not installed on your computer, Installation
Manager is
listed on the Install Packages page with Rational Functional Tester.
- To display all versions of the packages that Installation
Manager finds,
click Show all versions.
Note: To search the predefined IBM update
repository locations for the installed packages, make sure that Search
service repositories during installation and updates is
selected on the Repositories preference page. This preference is selected
by default.
- If updates for the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
are found, then they will be displayed in the Installation
Packages list on the Install Packages page below their
corresponding product. The latest updates are displayed by default.
- To find other versions, fixes and extensions for the available
packages in the update repository locations, click Check
for Other Versions, Fixes and Extensions.
- To view all updates found for the available packages, click Show
all versions.
- To display a package description under Details,
click the package name. If additional information about the package
is available, such as a readme file or release notes, a More
info link is included at the end of the description text.
Click the link to display the additional information in a browser.
To fully understand the package you are installing, review all information
beforehand.
- Select Rational Functional Tester,
the required version, and Installation
Manager,
if necessary. Click Next. Updates
that have dependencies are automatically selected and cleared together.
Note: If
you install multiple packages at the same time, then all the packages
will be installed into the same package group.
- On the Licenses page, read the license agreement for the
selected package.
If you selected more than one package
to install, there might be a license agreement for each package. On
the left side of the License page, click each
package version to display its license agreement. The package versions
that you selected to install (for example, the base package and an
update) are listed under the package name.
- If you agree to the terms of all of the license agreements,
click I accept the terms of the license agreements.
- Click Next to continue.
Note: Rational Functional Tester is
also included in the Rational Test Workbench package. You can use
the Rational Functional Tester license
when you install Rational Functional Tester through
the Rational Test Workbench package. However, if Rational Test Workbench
is installed on Microsoft Windows 2012, it is not possible
to install and use Rational Functional Tester on
the same operating system.
- On the Location page, type the path for the shared
resources directory in the Shared Resources Directory field,
or accept the default path. The shared resources directory contains
resources that can be shared by one or more package groups. Click Next to
continue.
Important: If you are installing
on Windows Vista, then to enable users who do
not have Administrator privileges to work with Rational Functional Tester,
do not choose a directory inside the Program Files directory (C:\Program
Files\).
The default path is:
- For Windows: C:\Program
Files\IBM\IBMIMShared
- For Linux:/opt/IBM/IBMIMShared
Important: You can specify the shared resources
directory only the first time that you install a package. Use your
largest disk for this to help ensure adequate space for the shared
resources of future packages. You cannot change the directory location
unless you uninstall all packages.
- On the Location page, specify whether to create a package
group and install the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
into a new package group or use an existing package group to shell-share
with another offering. A package group represents a directory in which
packages share resources with other packages in the same group. To
create a new package group:
- Click Create a new package group.
- Type the path for the installation directory for the
package group. The name for the package group is created
automatically.
The default path is:
- For Windows:C:\Program
Files\IBM\SDP
- For Linux:/opt/IBM/SDP
Note: If you are installing on Linux,
ensure that you do not include any spaces in the directory path.
Important: On Windows Vista, the Program Files directory
is usually virtualized in order to allow users who are not running
as the administrator to have write access to this protected directory.
However, the virtualization workaround is not compatible with Rational Functional Tester.
- Click Next to continue.
- On the next Location page, you can choose to extend an
existing Eclipse IDE already installed on your system, adding the
functionality in the packages that you are installing. You must have
Eclipse version 3.6.2 with the latest updates from eclipse.org to
select this option.
- If you do not want to extend an existing Eclipse IDE, click Next to
continue.
- To extend an existing Eclipse IDE:
- Select Extend an existing Eclipse.
- In the Eclipse IDE field, type or navigate
to the location of the folder containing the eclipse executable file
(eclipse.exe or eclipse.bin). Installation Manager will
check if the Eclipse IDE version is valid for the package that you
are installing. The Eclipse IDE JVM field
displays the Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM) for the
IDE that you specified.
- Click Next to continue.
- On the Features page under Languages,
select the languages for the package group. The corresponding national
language translations for the user interface and documentation for
the IBM Rational Functional Tester package
will be installed.
- On the next Features page, select the package features
that you want to install.
- Optional: To see the dependency relationships
between features, select Show Dependencies.
- Optional: Click a feature to view its brief
description under Details.
- Select or clear features in the packages. Installation Manager will
automatically enforce any dependencies with other features and display
updated download size and disk space requirements for the installation.
- Click Next to continue.
CAUTION:
Uninstalling Microsoft Visual Studio: If you
must uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio when the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Integration
feature of
Rational Functional Tester is
installed, you must uninstall the Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET Integration feature of
Rational Functional Tester and
then uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio. Use the Modify option in the
Installation Manager to uninstall the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Integration
feature. For information about the Modify option, see
Modifying installations.
- On the next Help System Features page, select the required
option to access the help contents for the product. For
more information about the help configuration, see Web-based help content.
Note: From Rational Functional Tester version
8.2.2 onwards, the Help System Features page is not shown during installation,
because help is included with the product installation.
- On the Summary page, review your choices before installing
the IBM Rational Functional Tester package.
If you want to change the choices that you made on previous pages,
click Back and make your changes. When you
are satisfied with your installation choices, click Install to
install the package. A progress indicator shows the
percentage of the installation completed.
- When the installation process is complete, a message confirms
the success of the process.
- Click View log file to open the
installation log file for the current session in a new window.
- The features that you installed are listed in the Which
program do you want to start section. Select the feature
that you want to start: Rational Functional Tester Eclipse
Integration or Rational Functional Tester Microsoft
Visual Studio Integration. To exit Installation
Manager without
starting any of the installed features, select None.
- Click Finish.
What to do next
- Activate the product license key.