You must enable your web browsers
before you can use Functional Tester to test HTML applications. The first
time you run Functional Tester, it automatically enables Internet Explorer.
If you have Firefox, Netscape, or Mozilla, you must enable them using the
Enable button, as described below. See the notes below
about enabling Netscape or Mozilla. If you add a new browser, or Functional
Tester fails to find a browser, you must run the enabler.
- Click any time from Functional
Tester to invoke the Enable Environments dialog box
(the enabler).
- Click the Web Browsers tab.
- Click Search. The Search for Web Browsers
dialog box opens.
- Search the browser using any of the following search method:
- Select Search All to let the enabler locate all
the browsers on your system. Functional Tester will scan all of your hard
drives or partitions, and list the browsers in the Web Browsers list.
- Select Search In to browse to a specific drive
or root directory to search.
Note: You should not use the Search All option
to find browsers on Linux® or UNIX® systems. Instead use the Search
In option and browse for it.
- Click the Search button.
- Select the browsers you want to enable by clicking on them in the
Web Browsers list. You can select multiple browsers
by using the Ctrl key while selecting. Click the Select
All button if you want to enable all of them.
- Click Enable. The selected
browser(s) will be enabled for HTML testing. The enabled browsers will be
indicated in parentheses after each browser name in the list.
- Select a browser to be the default, and click the Set
as Default button.
- Click Close.
Notes: - If the enabler fails to find a browser in the registry or on your system,
you can click the Add button. This brings up the Add
Browser dialog box, which you can use to locate the browser. After you select
it and click Add, the browser will then be added to
the Web Browsers list in the enabler, and you follow
the same steps above to enable or disable it. If you try to add a file that
is not a browser, you will get an error and it won't be added to the list.
- If your browser is not enabled, the Recording Monitor is blank when you
try to record against an HTML application. We recommend leaving the Recording
Monitor in view while recording for this reason. If you see this symptom,
you need to run the enabler.
- To test applets in HTML, you need to enable your JREs. To enable JREs
for Java™ testing,
see the Enabling Java Environments topic.
- The first time you run Functional Tester, it automatically enables the
JVM of your browser's Java plug-in so that HTML recording works
properly. If you install a different JVM, you must rerun the enabler to enable
it. However, if you experience an error regarding the Java plug-in
during HTML testing, or when trying to launch the Verification Point Comparator
from the HTML log, you need to make sure your plug-in is configured properly.
See Enabling the Java Plug-in of a Browser topic for instructions.
- You can test that your browser is enabled properly by clicking the Test button.
This opens the Browser Enablement Diagnostic Tool. If you suspect your browser
is not enabled properly, run this tool and follow the instructions it gives
to solve the problem.
- If you are using Netscape 7, or Mozilla, you need to enable that browser
using the Enable button as described above. When you
select one of them and click Enable, it will launch
the browser and you will be prompted to click in the browser to enable it.
Click the link, and then click OK if you get a message
box.
- If you are upgrading to Functional Tester from either RobotJ or XDE™ Tester, please
see Upgrading from earlier versions of Functional Tester topic for important
information about re-enabling your Java environments.