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Reference Guide
This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Functional Tester.
Reference for the Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.
Test application domain support
Rational® Functional Tester is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .NET, Java™, HTML, Siebel, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Flex, Dojo, Visual Basic and GEF applications.
Java support
This functional testing application supports the following Java™ versions for testing Java applications and HTML applications with applets.

Reference Guide
This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Functional Tester.
- Reference for the UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Web UI Test perspective.
- Reference for the Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.
  - Test application domain support
    Rational® Functional Tester is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .NET, Java™, HTML, Siebel, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Flex, Dojo, Visual Basic and GEF applications.
    - Adobe PDF documents support
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester supports testing of Portable Document Format (PDF) read-only files created for Adobe Reader versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, and 11.0. (Adobe Reader 11 is the last supported version of the Reader application.) You can test PDF files that are displayed in a browser or in the stand-alone Adobe Reader application. A functional test script that is recorded for files that are displayed in the stand-alone Adobe Reader application can be played back when the file is displayed in a browser and vice-versa, provided that the script is recorded for document controls only. Support for Adobe PDF requires Visual C++ 2013 or higher.
    - AJAX support
      Rational® Functional Tester supports testing AJAX-based web applications.
    - Application Response Measurement support
      The Application Response Measurement (ARM) standard helps measure the end-to-end transaction performance of an application, including service levels and response time. Rational® Functional Tester uses the response time breakdown to view the statistics that is captured while running a test.
    - Dojo support
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester supports testing HTML applications that contain Dojo controls on versions of all browsers supported by Rational Functional Tester. You can test applications that are developed using Dojo Toolkit versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.2, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6.1, 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9.
    - Eclipse support
      Rational® Functional Tester supports testing of applications based on Eclipse 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.2, 4.2, 4.2.2, and 4.4.
    - Flex support
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester supports testing functional aspects of Adobe® Flex applications. You can record and playback scripts against Flex-based user interfaces inside a web browser and verify that the application functions correctly.
    - GEF support
      Rational® Functional Tester allows testing the functionality of GEF objects that are implemented using standard GEF editors and non-standard GEF editors. GEF editor is based on Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) that provides many features for manipulating models. GEF displays a model graphically, employs MVC (model-view-controller) architecture and aids user interaction with that model.
    - HTML and HTML 5 support
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester supports testing traditional HTML applications that are loaded in a browser. Through the UI Test perspective, IBM Rational Functional Tester also supports testing HTML 5-based applications in desktop and mobile browsers.
    - Java support
      This functional testing application supports the following Java™ versions for testing Java applications and HTML applications with applets.
    - Windows support
      Rational® Functional Tester supports testing of Windows applications with Win32 controls.
    - Nested domains support
      Rational® Functional Tester recognizes two different kinds of nesting of objects, a parent-child nesting and an owner-owned nesting. A parent-child nesting occurs when one object is contained within another, such as a button on a form. An owner-owned nesting occurs when the owned object has its own top-level window, such as a dialog box that is owned by a top-level window.
    - PowerBuilder support
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester supports the testing of Win32 targets and .NET targets that are created by using Sybase PowerBuilder versions 10.5, 11.0, 11.2, 11.5, 12.0, 12.5, 12.6, and Appeon PowerBuilder 2017.
    - SAP support
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester supports extended functional testing of SAP GUI for Windows and SAP GUI for HTML.
    - Siebel support
      Rational® Functional Tester contains extended functional testing support for Siebel applications.
    - Silverlight support
      IBM® Rational® Functional Tester supports testing applications that are developed using Microsoft® Silverlight version 4.0 and are loaded in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0. You can also test Silverlight applications running on desktops, as well as embedded Silverlight applications. Testing Silverlight applications is only supported on 32-bit versions of Internet Explorer.
    - Visual Basic support
      Rational® Functional Tester supports testing Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 applications.
    - Terminal-based applications support
      Rational® Functional Tester Extension for Terminal-based Applications supports functional testing of Mainframe or zSeries (TN3270, TN3270E), AS/400 or iSeries (TN5250) and pSeries or Virtual Terminals (VT default, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT220-7, VT220-8, VT320, VT420-7, VT420-8, VT52, VT UTF-8).
  - Command line interface
    In this section, you will learn all the actions from the graphical user interface can also be performed from the command line.
  - UI reference
    In this section, you will learn all the UI references and its additional information for the Functional Test perspective.

Java support

This functional testing application supports the following Java™ versions for testing Java™ applications and HTML applications with applets.

Table 1. Java support
32-bit mode	64-bit mode
IBM JRE 1.6 IBM JRE 1.7 IBM JRE 1.8 Sun JRE 1.6 Oracle JRE 1.7 Oracle JRE 1.8 OpenJDK 8	IBM JRE 1.7 IBM JRE 1.8 Sun JRE 1.6 Oracle JRE 1.7 Oracle JRE 1.8 Oracle JRE 9 Oracle JRE 10 Oracle JDK 11 OpenJDK 8 Note: HTML applications with applets can be tested in Java 8 and earlier but this is not supported in Java 9 and later.

For specific information on the recommended versions that are validated and have provided optimal results, refer the technical document available at Software Product Compatibility Reports