Getting started

The OpenText Functional Testing Extensibility SDK includes sample applications, the Testing Agents developed to provide support for basic GUI testing on them, and several versions of the agents' source code. Each code version is intended for use with a different version of Visual Studio. These files are installed in the <Extensibility_installdir>\samples folder.

To implement Testing Extensibility, you develop a Testing Agent that interfaces between OpenText Functional Testing and the application being tested. The Testing Agent must be a singleton COM coclass that implements a set of APIs defined in the Testing Extensibility SDK.

After you install and register the Testing Agent on a computer on which OpenText Functional Testing is installed, you can create tests for applications of your environment using the custom set of test objects, properties and methods defined by the Testing Agent.

This section describes how the Testing Agent for the QuickID sample application was developed, thereby demonstrating how to develop a Testing Agent. For the purpose of this demonstration, the sample application represents the environment that OpenText Functional Testing needs to support.

Throughout this guide, you can find more information about the topics described in this section and about additional OpenText Functional Testing capabilities that your Testing Agent can support.

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