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This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
Supported software

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.

Supported software

The supported software section specifies the additional software that Rational® Functional Tester supports.

Capabilities:

Development tools


Supported software	Version	Perspective		Notes
Supported software	Version	Functional Test	UI Test	Notes
Appium	1.21 and future fix packs			To execute Appium scripts as part of a compound test. Deprecated in 10.2.3.
Appium	1.22 and future fix packs			To execute Appium scripts as part of a compound test.
Cucumber	Latest version			To integrate Cucumber features with test scripts.
eGit	5.13			Supports Eclipse source control.
IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM® Rational® Quality Manager)	7.0.1 and future fix packs			To execute test scripts from ETM.
	7.0.2 and future fix packs			To execute test scripts from ETM.
IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as IBM® Rational® Team Concert™	7.0.1 and future fix packs			Supports Eclipse shell sharing.
	7.0.2 and future fix packs			Supports Eclipse shell sharing.
IBM® Rational® Performance Tester	10.5.2			Supports Eclipse shell sharing, facilitates Low Intensity Performance Testing and larger Accelerated Functional Testing.
IBM® Rational® Test Workbench	10.5.2			To integrate with Rational® Integration Tester and run tests.
Selenium	3			To execute Selenium scripts from a compound test.
Selenium	4			To execute Selenium scripts from a compound test.

Device clouds


Supported device clouds	Version	UI Test perspective	Notes
Perfecto Mobile Cloud	Latest release		To execute native, hybrid, and Web UI tests on the mobile device cloud.
BitBar Cloud	Latest release
pCloudy Cloud	Latest release

Integration Middleware


Supported software	Version	Perspective		Notes
Supported software	Version	Functional Test	UI Test	Notes
Apache Ant	1.9 and later			To initiate the test runs through Ant.
Azure DevOps	Latest release			To initiate the test runs from Azure.
Micro Focus ALM	12.6
UrbanCode™ Deploy	7.2.1.0			To initiate the test runs from UrbanCode Deploy.
	7.2.3.0
	7.3
Jenkins	2.339			To initiate the test runs from Jenkins.
	2.346.2
	2.361.1
	2.375.2
	2.39
Maven	3.5 and later			To initiate the test runs through Maven.
GitHub Actions	Latest