Chapter 12. Extending Rational Functional Tester with External Libraries

Larry Quesada, Daniel Gouveia, Marc van Lint

Rational Functional Tester is much more than a record and playback automated testing tool. Because Rational Functional Tester is based on industry standard, object-oriented programming languages, you can extend its capabilities in powerful ways. One way you do this is to leverage open source libraries. This chapter covers examples of how to extend Rational Functional Tester to:

Test PDF files using PDFBox, google-diff-match-patch libraries, and IKVM.NET.

Create a custom logging solution using log4j and log4net.

Create an Excel® reporting utility using Jawin and Microsoft Interop libraries.

Examples are provided in both ...

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