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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
  You can learn to start using Rational® Functional Tester by reviewing the information in the Tutorials for the UI Test perspective and Functional Test perspective.
- Samples
  You can find the sample project that you can use 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.

Operating systems

You can find the operating systems that are supported, organized by operating system family for Rational® Functional Tester.

Contents

Bit version support

Different parts of a product might run on the same operating system but support different application bitness.

For example one part of the product might run only in 32-bit mode, whereas another might support 64-bit tolerate mode.


Bitness	Description
32	The product or part of the product runs as a 32-bit application in the 32-bit platforms listed as supported.
64-Tolerate	The product or part of the product runs as a 32-bit application in the 64-bit platforms listed as supported.
64-Exploit	The product or part of the product runs as a 64-bit application in the 64-bit platforms listed as supported.

Linux


Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Components			Notes
Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Functional test	Web UI test	Mobile	Notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9	x86-64	64-Exploit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4	x86-64	64-Exploit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.5	x86-64	64-Exploit
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	x86-64	64-Exploit				Deprecated in 10.2.3.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	x86-64	64-Exploit

Mac


Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Components
Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Functional test	Web UI test	Mobile
macOS Catalina 10.15	x86-64	64-Exploit
macOS BigSur 11.6	x86-64	64-Exploit

Windows


Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Components			Notes
Operating system	Hardware	Bitness	Functional test	Web UI test	Mobile	Notes
Windows 7 Enterprise	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit				Deprecated in 10.2.3. This operating system is no longer in service. Refer to IBM's policy on unsupported operating systems.
Windows 7 Professional	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows 7 Ultimate	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows 10 Enterprise	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows 10 Pro	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows 11 Pro	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows Server 2016	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit
Windows Server 2019	x86-64	32, 64-Exploit

Mobile


Operating system	Components			Notes
Operating system	Functional test	Web UI test	Mobile	Notes
Android 10				Deprecated in 10.2.3.
Android 11
Android 12
iOS 13				Deprecated in 10.2.3.
iOS 14
iOS 15