3.8.1. Configuring AUTs to be started from the ITE
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### 3.8.1. Configuring AUTs to be started from the ITE

Once you have created a Project (Section 3.6.2, “Creating a new Project”) and defined an AUT (Section 3.7, “Defining applications under test (AUTs)”), you can add and edit AUT configurations.

The details in the AUT configuration provide information on how to start the AUT, e.g. on which machine.

An AUT can have multiple configurations (for example, for local and remote testing). A configuration contains all the information required to start the AUT, and may contain platform- or installation-specific information such as paths to working directories, AUT arguments, Java versions, browser choices and activation methods.

| If you want to start your Java AUT yourself, and have the ITE connect to it, then use the autrun command to start the AUT (Section 3.8.4.6, “Starting Java AUTs with the autrun command”). In this case, you do not need to create an AUT configuration.

#### 3.8.1.1. AUT activation

Activation makes sure that the AUT is in focus at the beginning of test execution. This is acheived by clicking somewhere in the AUT window. You can specify the activation method (i.e. where to click) as part of a configuration for an AUT, or you can create a Test Step within a test to do the same thing.

The advantage of specifying an activation method here is that it is central and affects each test execution started on this AUT with this configuration.

Bear in mind that you may need to activate your AUT in order for tests to work, especially if the AUT runs on the same machine as the ITE.