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Rational® Functional Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known problems in and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
- 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 Rational® Functional Tester.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with Rational® Functional Tester to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes how to automate 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 Rational® Test Control Panel.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes how to 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
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with Rational® Functional Tester.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Functional Tester.
- 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.

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
Development Tool	Version	Functional test	Web UI test		Notes
Appium	1.18
	1.19
	1.20.0
Appium	1.17				Deprecated
Microsoft Visual Studio	2015 and future fix packs				Required to use IBM® Rational® Functional Tester from this Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
	2017 and future fix packs
	2019 and future fix packs
WinAppDriver	1.2				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
License Server	Version	Functional test	Web UI test
IBM Rational License Key Server	8.1.6

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
Browser	Version	Functional test	Web UI test		Notes
Apple Safari	12 or later	Not Applicable
Google Chrome	78 or later
Microsoft Edge	80 or later
Microsoft Internet Explorer	11				Deprecated
Mozilla Firefox (including ESR versions)	68 or later
Opera	67 or later

Virtualization management


Container	Version	Components			Notes
Container	Version	Functional test	Web UI test		Notes
Docker Community Edition (CE)	19.3				Deprecated
Docker Community Edition (CE)	20.1 and future fix packs
Docker Compose	1.25 and future fix packs				Deprecated
	1.26 and future fix packs				Deprecated
	1.27 and future fix packs
	1.29 and future fix packs