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1.0 About this releaseThis release of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester V7.0 includes the following new features:
- Extended functional testing support for SAP UI controls - Allows you to test the functional aspects of an application built using the SAP framework. Testing of all versions of SAP R/3 system is supported through the SAPGUI running on Windows. The currently supported versions of SAPGUI are 6.20 with patch level 52 or greater and 6.40.
- Extended functional testing support for Siebel 7.8 controls
- Process advice with Rational Process Advisor (RPA) - Helps users understand and progress using processes around specific tasks that are being executed.
- Support for testing HTML applications on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and 2.0
- Integration with ClearQuest Test Manager V7.0.0.1- Enables you to play back a functional test script from ClearQuest Test Manager, generate logs, and track defects. With ClearQuest Test Manager integration, you can associate functional test scripts to Test Cases and Configured Test Cases, and execute them. ClearQuest Test Manager also allows you to analyze the received execution results (logs), and record those results for reporting and analysis.
- IBM Installation Manager - Provides a quick and easy method to install, modify, update, and uninstall packages.
- Support for .Net Framework 2.0 - Includes support for recording and testing applications that contain DataGridView and MaskedTextBox.
- Support for TPTP logs - Allows you to generate logs using TPTP.
- Support for Eclipse 3.1 controls (SWT Tree with column and Spinner control).
- Support for testing on Citrix environment.
- Support for clipboard verification points.
You must buy additional licenses to work on SAP and Siebel extensions. For details, please visit How to buy software.
Additional updates about limitations and problems can be found in the form of individual technotes in the Support knowledge base at http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/support/. As problems are discovered and resolved, the IBM Rational Support team updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find solutions or workarounds to problems.
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You can view the Installation Guide from the installation launchpad and in the documents directory of the first product CD.
Hardware requirements
- Intel® Pentium® IV 1.4 GHz processor minimum is required
- 1.0 GB RAM minimum and recommended
- Disk space requirements: 750 MB for install
Software requirements
- .Net Framework:
- .Net Framework 1.0, 1.1 or 2.0 is a mandatory requirement.
- Optional Integrated Development Environment (IDE):
- VS .Net 2003 with .Net Framework 1.0 or 1.1
- VS .Net 2005 with .Net Framework 2.0
- The IBM Rational Functional Tester V7.0 SAP implementation does not support the ability to create verification points on MenuItems directly. Creating a verification point on a menu item only highlights the menubar. However, you can create a verification point on the menubar and select the required MenuItem in the Verification Point Data page of the Verification Point and Action Wizard.
- IBM Rational Functional Tester V7.0 does not support the ability to create verification points on the Context menu and its items in SAP.
Playback fails while selecting context menu items from the selection variant toolbar button on some transaction pages. Selecting any item on the context menu generates the selectContextMenutItem script with arguments. These arguments are dynamically generated by SAP for each session against which Functional Tester is recording. So for the playback to work correctly, you need to play back in the same session in which recording is done. Playback fails if you record in one session and play back later in a different session. The problem will not get fixed unless SAP fixes it in their scripting framework.
IBM Rational Functional Tester V7.0 does not recognize any objects on Eclipse 2.1 as the Application Under Test.
Certain modules on Linux ®, such as Gamin/FAM (File alteration monitoring library) may incorrectly do signal handling and cause Eclipse and Eclipse-based applications to hang arbitrarily on IBM JRE 1.4. This may cause Functional Tester to hang on IBM JRE 1.4.
On Linux, when you check in a file that is checked out as reserved, an incorrect error message appears, indicating that there were problems checking the files into ClearCase and that the checkin did not finish because Functional Tester could not merge the object map. The error message should actually indicate that the file was checked out as reserved.
Rational Functional Tester does not support recording against SAP toolbar buttons such as Generate a ShortCut and Customizing of Local Layout, and its popup window.
Functional Tester does not support testing SAP graphics controls such as GuiCtrlBarChart, GuiCtrlNetChart, GuiCtrlChart, GuiCtrlColorSelector, and GuiCtrlWebViewers. It also does not support testing application controls such as APO Grid.
On Linux, playback on the following AWT controls does not work if the application under test (AUT) is on Sun JRE 1.5:
- Choice (ComboBox)
- FileDialog
- List
- Menu
This happens because Sun JRE 1.5 has libXt statically linked to the JVM.
Currently, Functional Tester does not support testing multi-tab documents in a single Firefox browser window. Functional Tester considers only the document in the first tab of the Firefox browser for testing.
On Linux, Functional Tester does not provide support for testing HTML applications using Mozilla Firefox.
Currently, Functional Tester only provides Firefox support on Windows.
While recording on some ActiveX controls like ISSGanttChartControl, ISSCoCalCustomCtrl, and sysMonthCal32calendar control in the Siebel domain, Siebel Test Automation (STA) framework does not emit the events for the actions that you perform on them. These actions are recorded as Win actions with raw coordinates with respect to the ActiveX controls.
These release notes include release-specific information, such as problems and workarounds that were not available until after the product documentation was finalized.
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