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.

• Import requirements with format ReqIF

  In Rational® Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE preferences, the user can now load a requirement file that supports the format ReqIF. See https://www.omg.org/spec/ReqIF/About-ReqIF/ and Link Tests to Requirements.

• Support C++17 and C++20 syntaxes

  Almost all C+20 syntaxes are supported under Support for C17 and C+20 syntaxes.

• Multiple user-defined MISRA rules
  • Multiple user-defined rules can be defined in MISRA 2004 and MISRA 2012.
  • Each rule can have its own severity.

    See Configuring code review rules and Configuring code review rules.

• MISRA updater:
  • When you update from an old version of Rational® Test RealTime and you use MISRA in Rational® Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE 8.3.1 for the first time, you are requested to update the configuration rule with the new rules added to the new version. By default, the unselected rules are disabled, they must be selected to be enabled. See Configuring code review rules.
  • In Rational® Test RealTime Studio, the configuration file is automatically updated and the new rules are disabled. See Running a code review.

• Support for Eclipse 2020-06 (4.12)

  Rational® Test RealTime is still delivered with Eclipse 4.7.2 but it can be also installed on Eclipse 2020-06 (4.12).

• TDP Visual 2019

  A new Target Deployment Port dedicated to Microsoft Visual 2019 is delivered.

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

For instructions about installing the software, see Installing.

You cannot upgrade Rational® Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE from an earlier version of the product to version 8.3.1. If you have an earlier version of the product, you must uninstall it before installing Rational® Test RealTime 8.3.1.

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