Host prerequisites

You can find the host prerequisites that support the operating capabilities for IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.

Contents

Development tools

Development Tool

Version

Components

Notes

Functional test

Web UI test

Appium

1.18

image of the crossmark.

supported

1.19

image of the crossmark.

supported

1.20.0 image of the crossmark.

supported

Appium

1.17

image of the crossmark.

supported

Deprecated
Microsoft Visual Studio

2015 and future fix packs

supported

image of the crossmark.

Required to use IBM® Rational® Functional Tester from this Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

2017 and future fix packs

supported

image of the crossmark.

2019 and future fix packs

supported

image of the crossmark.

WinAppDriver

1.2

image of the crossmark.

supported

  • WinAppDriver is required to record and play back the Windows desktop applications.
  • WinAppDriver is supported only on computers that run on Windows 10 (Home and Pro) and Windows Server 2016.

Licensing

License Server

Version

Components

Functional test

Web UI test

IBM Rational License Key Server

8.1.6

supported

supported

Web browsers

The browsers listed in the following table can be used to view the contents of various assets in a testing project such as a recording session, configured applications, datasets, reports, and so on. You must refer to the Recording and Playback Support section to view the list of browsers along with their versions that are supported to record and play back tests.

Browser

Version

Components

Notes

Functional test

Web UI test

Apple Safari

12 or later

Not Applicable

supported

Google Chrome

78 or later

supported

supported

Microsoft Edge

80 or later

supported supported

Microsoft Internet Explorer

11

supported supported Deprecated

Mozilla Firefox (including ESR versions)

68 or later

supported

supported

Opera

67 or later

supported

supported

Virtualization management

Container

Version

Components

Notes

Functional test

Web UI test

Docker Community Edition (CE)

19.3

supported

supported

Deprecated

Docker Community Edition (CE)

20.1 and future fix packs

supported

supported

Docker Compose

1.25 and future fix packs

supported

supported

Deprecated

1.26 and future fix packs

supported

supported

1.27 and future fix packs

supported

supported

1.29 and future fix packs

supported

supported