Chapter 13. Building Support for New Objects with the Proxy SDK

Daniel Gouveia

Automating custom controls usually ends up with one of two things happening: You either create a series of custom scripting methods or abandon the piece of your automation project that contains the custom controls. Rational Functional Tester actually provides a third option—building support for your control(s) directly into its record and playback capabilities. This provides a great benefit to you and the rest of your team. They do not have to work at the code-level and call the methods that you constructed to handle custom controls. Instead, they can continue engaging Rational Functional Tester’s record and playback engine, automating the application’s custom control(s) ...

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