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Reference
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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
HCL OneTest™ UI 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.

Rational® Functional Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about new features, system requirements, and known limitations in HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Getting Started Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with HCL OneTest™ UI to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator guide
  Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
- Test Author guide
  As a test author, you are responsible to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
- Test Execution Specialist guide
  A test executor automates the playback of the tests by using different methods such as Docker, IBM Cloud Private, Jenkins and so on. The test results can be pushed to HCL Quality Server.
- Test Manager guide
  As a test manager, you can keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
- Troubleshooting
  While working with HCL OneTest™ UI, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot. The topics in this section address some of these problems.
- Reference
  Use these additional topics to gain more knowledge about the product.
  - Reference for the Web 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
      HCL OneTest™ UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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. HCL OneTest™ UI uses the response time breakdown to view the statistics that is captured while running a test.
      - Dojo support
        HCL OneTest™ UI supports testing HTML applications that contain Dojo controls on versions of all browsers supported by HCL OneTest UI. 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI supports testing traditional HTML applications that are loaded in a browser. Through the Web UI Test perspective, HCL OneTest UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI supports testing of Windows applications with Win32 controls.
      - Nested domains support
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI supports extended functional testing of SAP GUI for Windows and SAP GUI for HTML.
      - Siebel support
        HCL OneTest™ UI contains extended functional testing support for Siebel applications.
      - Silverlight support
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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
        HCL OneTest™ UI supports testing Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 applications.
      - Terminal-based applications support
        HCL OneTest™ UI 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.
- All Guides (PDF)
  You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester as a PDF file.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

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 1.4 IBM JRE 1.5 IBM JRE 1.6 IBM JRE 1.7 IBM JRE 1.8 SUN JRE 1.3 (Only on Windows for stand-alone Java applications) Sun JRE 1.4 Sun JRE 1.5 Sun JRE 1.6 Oracle JRE 1.7 Oracle JRE 1.8	IBM JRE 1.7 IBM JRE 1.8 Sun JRE 1.5 Sun JRE 1.6 Oracle JRE 1.7 Oracle JRE 1.8 Oracle JRE 9 Oracle JRE 10 Oracle JDK 11 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

Note:

HCL OneTest™ UI does not support testing applications that are running in Java runtime environments with green threads enabled.