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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.

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	1.22
Microsoft .NET Framework	3.5
Microsoft Visual Studio	2015 and future fix packs				Deprecated in 10.5.0. Required to use IBM® Rational® Functional Tester from this Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
	2017 and future fix packs				Required to use IBM® Rational® Functional Tester from this Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
	2019 and future fix packs

Licensing


License Server	Version	Components
License Server	Version	Functional test	Web UI test
IBM Common License Key Server	9

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	14, 15	Not Applicable
Google Chrome	91 to 96				Deprecated in 10.5.0.
Google Chrome	97 to 104
Microsoft Edge	91 to 96				Deprecated in 10.5.0.
Microsoft Edge	97 to 104
Mozilla Firefox (including ESR versions)	89 to 92				Deprecated in 10.5.0.
Mozilla Firefox (including ESR versions)	93 to 104
Opera	83 to 85

Virtualization management


Container	Version	Components			Notes
Container	Version	Functional test	Web UI test		Notes
Docker Community Edition (CE)	20.1 and future fix packs
Docker Compose	1.29 and future fix packs				Deprecated from 10.2.0.
Docker Compose	2.6 and future fix packs				In Docker Compose, the HTML test scripts that are created in the Functional Test perspective are supported only as part of a compound test in the UI Test perspective.