Release notes for IBM Rational Functional Tester
This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known problems in and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
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Product description
IBM® Rational® Functional Tester is a GUI test automation tool that is used to accelerate the functional and regression testing. It provides a flexible environment to test the desktop and web applications very efficiently. It is used to test a wide range of applications that includes HTML, web, native and hybrid mobile, SAP, Java, Power Builder, and Windows desktop applications. Rational Functional Tester is available in two integrated development environments (IDE): Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The Eclipse integration supports both Java and simplified (non-programming) method of scripting while the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET integration supports Microsoft Visual Basic .NET scripting language. See Product overview.
What's New
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Customizing names of exported statistical reports
You can now specify a pattern that defines the file names of the exported statistical reports when you run tests from the command line. See Configuration of test runs from the command line.
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Support for BrowserStack Cloud
You can now run Web UI and Mobile tests on Android or iOS devices that are connected to the BrowserStack Cloud testing platform. Also, you can use the command line to run tests on the BrowserStack Cloud. See the following links:- Creating an AFT Suite to run Web UI tests on BrowserStack Cloud
- Creating an AFT Suite to run mobile tests on BrowserStack Cloud
- Running Web UI tests on BrowserStack Cloud
- Running mobile tests on Android devices on BrowserStack Cloud
- Running mobile tests on iOS devices on BrowserStack Cloud
- Running compound tests on Android devices on BrowserStack Cloud
- Running compound tests on iOS devices on BrowserStack Cloud
- Running Web UI tests as an AFT Suite on BrowserStack Cloud
- Running mobile tests as an AFT Suite on BrowserStack Cloud
- Running Web UI tests on BrowserStack Cloud from the command-line
- Running mobile tests for Android applications on BrowserStack Cloud from the command-line
- Running mobile tests for iOS applications on BrowserStack Cloud from the command-line
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Support for MacOS Ventura 13.x
You can now install Rational Functional Tester by using Installation Manager on MacOS Ventura 13.x operating systems and run tests.
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Support to control test runs for error handling
A new error condition Test Verdict Failed is added to Error handling to manage the test when the overall verdict of the test is failed. The error condition can control the behavior of the test and can contribute to the health of the test. See Error conditions.
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Support to run functional tests with JavaScript dialogs recorded on Internet Explorer
You can now play back functional test steps with JavaScript dialogs that were recorded on Internet Explorer by using the Web UI engine on the supported browsers.
Also, you can write the functional test scripts to test JavaScript dialogs by using the find API function. See Dynamic Find() API for JavaScript dialogs.
Deprecated capabilities
- No capabilities were deprecated in this release.
Removed capabilities
No capabilities were removed in this release.
Installing the product
For installation instructions, see Installing Rational Functional Tester.
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You can upgrade to Rational Functional Tester 10.5.3 from the previous versions, 10.5.2, 10.5.1, and 10.5.0. See Updating Rational Functional Tester.
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If you installed Rational Functional Tester that is earlier than 10.5.0, then you cannot upgrade the product to the latest version. You must uninstall the existing version of the product before you install the latest version of the product.
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After you install Rational Functional Tester 10.5.3, at any point in time if you want to use the previous version of the product, you cannot roll back to the previous version. If you want to use the previous version of the product, you must uninstall the existing version, and then install the required version of the product.
Known issues
You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of Rational Functional Tester.
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Known problems are documented in the download document and in the form of individual tech notes in the Support Knowledge Base. See the Support Knowledge Base.
The knowledge base is continually updated as issues are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to issues.
Contacting IBM Rational Software Support
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For contact information and guidelines or reference materials that you might need when you require support, read the IBM Support Guide.
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For personalized support that includes notifications of significant upgrades, subscribe to Product notification.
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Before you contact IBM Rational Software Support, you must gather the background information that you might need to describe your problem. When you describe a problem to an IBM software support specialist, be as specific as possible and include all relevant background information so that the specialist can help you solve the problem efficiently. To save time, know the answers to these questions:
- What software versions were you running when the problem occurred?
- Do you have logs, traces, or messages that are related to the problem?
- Can you reproduce the problem? If so, what steps do you take to reproduce it?
- Is there a workaround for the problem? If so, be prepared to describe the workaround.