Release notes for IBM® Rational® Functional Tester V10.1.1

This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known problems in and contact information of IBM Customer Support.

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Product 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.

What's new

  • Browser performance optimization

    You can optimize the performance of certain browsers that are used to play back Web UI tests. To optimize the browser performance, Rational Functional Tester provides an option to automatically clear the browser data before the playback is started. See Clearing cache, cookies, and history of browsers.

  • Microsoft Edge browser support for functional tests

    You can now use the Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium) browser to play back the functional test scripts for testing the HTML applications.

  • Deprecation of Mobile and Web UI report

    You can no longer generate Mobile and Web UI reports for the playing back Web UI tests from the desktop version of Rational® Functional Tester. However, you can still generate the Mobile and Web UI reports for the playing back Web UI tests from the command-line using the -vmargs argument. See Running a test or schedule from a command line.

  • Enhancements to Unified Reports

    • You can now use a new, advanced prompt box to publish Unified Reports to Rational® Test Automation Server. See Publishing test results to the server.
    • You can now use the resize icon in the Details pane of Unified Report to view test steps with truncated description. See Unified reports.
    • You can use the Export option in the unified report to export the report as a compressed file. The compressed file contains the unified report in an HTML format. See Unified reports.
    • You can use the -exportlog parameter to export the test result as a unified report when you play back the test script from the command line. See Command line interface.

  • Technical preview: Enhancements to automating UI testing of Android applications

  • Technical Preview: Support for Windows desktop application testing

    Testing of traditional Windows desktop applications can be performed by using this technical preview feature. You can configure the windows applications to record and playback tests. As a technical preview, this is subject to change in future releases based on the user feedback on the capability. This feature should not be considered ‘Production’ at this point and does not implement any licensing. User feedback is encouraged during this technical preview. See Support for Windows desktop applications.

Installing the product

To download the product from IBM® Passport Advantage®, follow the directions in the download document at Rational® Functional Tester V10.1.1.

For installation instructions, see Installing software.

Notes:

  • You can upgrade to V10.1.1 from V10.1.0 of the product. Any time after installing V10.1.1, if you want to use V10.1.0, you can roll back from V10.1.1 to V10.1.0.

  • If you have installed the product that is earlier than V10.1.0, you cannot upgrade the product to the latest version. You must uninstall the existing version of the product before installing the latest version of the product.

  • After installing V10.1.1, any time if you want to use the product that is earlier than V10.1.0, you cannot roll back to the previous version of the product. You must uninstall V10.1.1, 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.

Product Download document Knowledge base

Rational® Functional Tester

Release document

Knowledge articles

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.

Contacting IBM Rational Software Support

  • For contact information and guidelines or reference materials that you will need when you require support, read the IBM Support Guide.

  • For personalized support, including notifications of significant upgrades, subscribe at Product notification.

  • Before you contact IBM Rational Software Support, gather the background information that you will need to describe your problem. When describing a problem to an IBM software support specialist, be as specific as possible and include all relevant background information so that the specialist can help you solve the problem efficiently. To save time, know the answers to these questions:
    • What software versions were you running when the problem occurred?
    • Do you have logs, traces, or messages that are related to the problem?
    • Can you reproduce the problem? If so, what steps do you take to reproduce it?
    • Is there a workaround for the problem? If so, be prepared to describe the workaround.