Rational® Functional Tester installation features

You can choose to install some of the features of Rational® Functional Tester. Some features are selected for installation by default. If a feature already exists in your shared resources directory, you cannot install that feature again.

Feature Description Selected for installation by default
Select Edition (Eclipse IDE) Provides an automated functional and regression testing of Windows®, .NET, Java™, HTML 5, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Flex, Dojo, GEF, Visual Basic applications, Adobe® PDF documents, and zSeries®, iSeries®, and pSeries® applications through the Eclipse IDE. You can install a full licensed edition, which is available for Web UI testing. The .NET Framework is required for testing SAP applications. Yes
IBM® Rational® Functional Tester Extension for Selenium/Appium Provides the ability to run Selenium/Appium tests. Yes
Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET Integration Provides components to enable Visual Basic .NET scripting through the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, 2017, or 2019 integrated development environment (IDE).
Note: Microsoft Visual Studio integration for Rational® Functional Tester might not get installed if the mandatory prerequisites are not installed, or if Microsoft Visual Studio is not installed properly. For more information, see Unable to install Rational® Functional Tester Extension for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, 2017 & 2019.
 No
IBM® Rational® Test Workbench Extension for SAP Solutions Supports extended functional testing of SAP GUI for Windows and SAP GUI for HTML.

With the installation of this extension, you can record and play back scripts for the SAP UI with SAP controls and customized data verification of SAP controls.

 Yes
Java 8 OpenJDK with Eclipse OpenJ9 Provides the Java 8.0 binaries required for Rational® Functional Tester.
Notes:
  • If you want to shell share Rational® Functional Tester along with other products that utilize OpenJDK, you must select Java 8 OpenJDK with Eclipse OpenJ9 for only one of the shell shared products. You must not install multiple instances of OpenJDK in the same package group.
 Yes
Jazz Eclipse Client for Rational Team Concert/Rational Quality Manager Manages functional test assets using the Jazz source control management provided by the Jazz Eclipse Client.

You must have a compatible version of Rational Team Concert or Rational Quality Manager server setup to use the Jazz source control management. You must also have a platform that is also supported by the Rational Team Concert client.

 No
Note: Rational® Functional Tester supports integration with Rational® Quality Manager for remote execution of test scripts. You can enable Rational® Functional Tester integration with Rational® Quality Manager by configuring the adapter that is installed by default when you install Rational® Functional Tester. For more information, see Rational Quality Manager integration overview.