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How to call a Rational Functional Tester script from a regular Java project

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Question

How can you call an IBM® Rational® Functional Tester (RFT) script from a regular Java™ project?

Cause

You want to add functions to your non-RFT Java project and re-use RFT code.

Answer

You cannot call an RFT class like you would do for any Java program.

An RFT project differs from a regular Java program. Therefore it is not enough to call a class like you would do for any Java program. Using callscript does not call the RFT script.

You can try to call the RFT script from a Java project with the following steps.

    1. Create a simple Java project.

    2. Create a sample class. Below is the code for this class.

    3. Add the rational_ft.jar file in the Java project classpath, the Java build path. The JAR's default location is:

      C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP70\FunctionalTester\bin

    4. Modify the location of your RFT script. Now you can call an RFT script from this Java class.


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public class ExternalClassforRFT {

public static void main(String[] args) {
String rftplaybackArgs[] = new String[]{"-datastore", "C:\\Testmanager\\RemoteTesting\\DataPoolTesting", "-playback", "DataPoolTest"};

try
{
Thread.sleep(100);
}catch (Exception e){}

System.out.println("I got .. + " + rftplaybackArgs.toString());
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
com.rational.test.ft.rational_ft.main(rftplaybackArgs);
}
}

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21306251

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