Release notes for Rational® Functional Tester V10.1.0

This document contains information about new features, system requirements, and known limitations in IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

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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 such as HTML5-based web applications built on modern frameworks which include Angular, React and Vue.js in the latest versions of the world’s popular browsers, both on the desktop and mobile devices. 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.

Some of the older versions of software supported by Rational® Functional Tester are deprecated. To view the list of deprecated software, seeTechnology currency updates for Functional Tester 10.0.1.

What's new

  • Unified Report

    The experimental unified report for Web UI tests is replaced by the new and enhanced unified report. This report has a live reporting feature and is available to Functional, Web UI and Compound tests, and Accelerated Functional Test (AFT) suites. The report provides a detailed overview of your test results and has an extensive user interface to analyse and filter your test result details. You can also a generate a unified report for SAP tests that are run by using the Rational Performance Tester SAP extension. See Unified reports.

  • Enhancement to image validation

    Now, you can define the image property as an identifier while recording the Web UI tests or while playing back the Web UI tests. The image identifier validates the images and user interface elements in the application under test. You can also enable the guided healing feature for the Web UI tests that are identified by using the image property. See Validating images and user interface elements by using the image property.

  • Support to extend application URL with substitutions in a Web UI test

    Now, you can substitute your application URL in a Web UI test by using data sources and then extend the application URL to other Web UI tests. See Extension of application URL in Web UI tests.

  • Enhancements to restrict test scripts with start application

  • Enhancements to Microsoft Azure DevOps integration

    You can now integrate IBM® Rational® Functional Tester with Azure DevOps to run tests as tasks in Azure DevOps pipelines by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal. See Running tests.

  • Updates to Dataset CSV Editor

    The browser-based CSV Editor provides additional options that include Find and Replace, Undo, and Redo to organize your data in the dataset in a better way. See Editing datasets.

  • Enhancements to browsers for playback
    • You can use Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium) and Opera browsers to play back your Web UI tests on Mac operating system.
    • You can play back Functional HTML test scripts in multiple windows of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. See Enabling multi-window support to test Functional HTML tests.
  • Enhancement to mobile recording and playback

    You can use this technical preview feature to record actions that you perform on native and hybrid applications in Android mobile devices. You can connect your emulators and mobile devices to your computer and then record the user interface actions such as tap, swipe and so on and hardware actions such screen lock, back button and so on. The actions are performed by using a virtual client of your mobile device.

Installing the product

To download the product from IBM® Passport Advantage®, follow the directions in the download document at Rational® Functional TesterV10.1.0.

For installation instructions, see Installing software.

Notes:
  • You cannot upgrade to the latest version of the product. You must uninstall the existing version of the product before installing the latest version of the product.
  • After installing 10.1.0, at any point of 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.
Note: The product user interface (UI) help displays the Rational® Functional Tester V10.0.2 documentation instead of V10.1.0 product documentation. You can access the V10.1.0 documentation from the V10.0.2 product welcome page. For more information, refer https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6239152.
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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.

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