IBM Rational Functional Tester Considerations for GDPR Readiness


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Notice:

This document is intended to help you in your preparations for GDPR readiness. It provides information about features of Rational Functional Tester that you can configure, and aspects of the product's use, that you should consider to help your organization with GDPR readiness. This information is not an exhaustive list, due to the many ways that clients can choose and configure features, and the large variety of ways that the product can be used in itself and with third-party applications and systems.

Clients are responsible for ensuring their own compliance with various laws and regulations, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation. Clients are solely responsible for obtaining advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any relevant laws and regulations that may affect the clients' business and any actions the clients may need to take to comply with such laws and regulations.

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Table of Contents

  1. GDPR
  2. Product Configuration for GDPR
  3. Data Life Cycle
  4. Data Collection
  5. Data Storage
  6. Data Access
  7. Data Processing
  8. Data Deletion
  9. Data Monitoring
  10. Responding to Data Subject Rights

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been adopted by the European Union ("EU") and applies from May 25, 2018.

Why is GDPR important?

GDPR establishes a stronger data protection regulatory framework for processing of personal data of individuals. GDPR brings:

Read more about GDPR


Product Configuration - Considerations for GDPR Readiness

The following sections provide considerations for configuring IBM Rational Functional Tester to help your organization with GDPR readiness.


Data Life Cycle

This offering processes the Types of Personal Data listed below:

Technical support for this offering provided by HCL America, Inc.

This offering may integrate with the following IBM offerings, which may process personal data content: * Rational Quality Manager

This offering may integrate with the following third party products, which may process personal data content: * None

Please review:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJMXE_9.1.0/com.ibm.rational.test.ft.doc/rft_welcome.html

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-functional-tester

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043447

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000322

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Rational+Functional+Tester

Personal data used for online contact with IBM

IBM Rational Functional Tester clients can submit online comments/feedback/requests to contact IBM about product topics in a variety of ways, primarily the comment areas of the following, as applicable:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJMXE_9.1.0/com.ibm.rational.test.ft.doc/rft_welcome.html

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-functional-tester

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043447

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000322

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Rational+Functional+Tester

Typically, only the client name and email address are used, to enable personal replies for the subject of the contact, and the use of personal data conforms to the [IBM Online Privacy Statement] (https://www.ibm.com/privacy/us/en/).


Data Collection

This offering collects the Types of Personal Data listed below:

Please review:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJMXE_9.1.0/com.ibm.rational.test.ft.doc/rft_welcome.html

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-functional-tester

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043447

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000322

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Rational+Functional+Tester


Data Storage

By default, client data is not stored encrypted. Client is strongly encouraged to store sensitive client data in encrypted datapools.

Please review:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJMXE_9.1.0/com.ibm.rational.test.ft.doc/rft_welcome.html

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-functional-tester

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043447

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000322

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Rational+Functional+Tester


Data Access

This offering does not process or store any Personal Data.

Please review:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJMXE_9.1.0/com.ibm.rational.test.ft.doc/rft_welcome.html

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-functional-tester

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043447

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000322

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Rational+Functional+Tester


Data Processing

Please review:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJMXE_9.1.0/com.ibm.rational.test.ft.doc/rft_welcome.html

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-functional-tester

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043447

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000322

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Rational+Functional+Tester


Data Deletion

Rational Functional Tester does not store any client personal data. However, using Rational Functional Tester the Client has the ability to store and transmit Client data that may contain personal information. Client is strongly urged to use test data and not to use any personal data in the creation of tests to be processed by Rational Functional Tester.

Please review:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJMXE_9.1.0/com.ibm.rational.test.ft.doc/rft_welcome.html

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-functional-tester

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043447

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000322

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Rational+Functional+Tester


Data Monitoring

This offering does not process or store any Personal Data.

Please review:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSJMXE_9.1.0/com.ibm.rational.test.ft.doc/rft_welcome.html

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/rational-functional-tester

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043447

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/index.html

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000322

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Rational+Functional+Tester


Responding to Data Subject Rights

On premises product managed by the client, please review links provided in earlier sections for configuration information.