Release Notes

Rational® Test RealTime is a complete test and runtime analysis tool set for systems development created in any cross-development environment.

Rational® Test RealTime provides tools for automated component testing, code coverage, memory leak detection, performance profiling, and UML sequence diagram tracing.

You can find information about the features introduced in this release of Rational® Test RealTime.

The following sections list the new features, enhancements or other changes made in this release.

• Support Eclipse 4.7.3 and 4.12 (2019.06) and CDT 9
  • Rational® Test RealTime is now delivered with Eclipse 4.7.3 and CDT 9.
  • It can be also installed on Eclipse 4.12 (a.k.a. 2019.06) using the update site mechanism.
• Execute OTD test scripts in Eclipse IDE
  • A tester can now import and run OTD test scripts from Studio to Eclipse IDE and run them, exactly as he does with PTU test scripts. See Testing with .otd test scripts
  • Reports are generated in the same way as it is in Studio.
• New Code Review HTML report
  • Code review post-processor generates now a new HTML report additionally to the standard report.
  • This report is created from a template that the tester can modify to introduce his own logo, or titles for example. See Customizing the code review report
• MISRA 2004 and 2012 rules improvements

  See Code review MISRA 2004 rules and Code review MISRA 2012 rules

  • The rules related to the number of lines of code propose now different ways to compute this number of lines of code (with or without the empty lines, with or without the comments).
  • New rules are available:
    • max # of functions in a compilation unit
    • max # of global variables in a compilation unit
    • max # of lines in a compilation unit
    • max # of parameters in a function
• Open Eclipse IDE to other testing tools
  • Eclipse IDE supports now test scripts based on Python, shell or windows command instructions. See Testing with Python, Perl, Windows or Linux scripts and Configuring Python, Perl, Windows or Linux scripts
  • Runtime analysis features can be used in parallel.
  • HTML reports generated by these tools can also be part of the global report.

  For more details, see Creating test suites.

You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for Rational® Test RealTime.

For instructions about installing the software, see Installing.

You cannot upgrade Rational® Test RealTime from an earlier version of the product to version 8.3.0. If you have an earlier version of the product, you must uninstall it before installing Rational® Test RealTime 8.3.0.

Known problems are documented in the download document for each product and in the form of individual technotes in the Support Knowledge Base:

The knowledge base is continually updated as problems are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

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