About Getting Started with OpenText Functional Testing Extensibility

Using OpenText Functional Testing Extensibility, you can extend OpenText Functional Testing's automated testing capabilities, enabling OpenText Functional Testing to recognize and operate on objects in your environment.

To implement OpenText Functional 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 OpenText Functional Testing Extensibility SDK.

After you install and register the Testing Agent on a computer on which OpenText Functional Testing is installed, you can use OpenText Functional Testing to 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.