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PINNED Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

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Support .NET Core 6.0 Desktop Applications and WPF in Rational Functional Tester

Currently RFT supports .NET applications until the .NET 4.6.1 version of Desktop Applications. Such .NET version is obsoleted from Microsoft in mid 2022 and Microsoft encourages to migrate applications on .NET Core 6.x applications. So new Desktop...
13 days ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Future consideration

Connecting real mobile devices to system wirelessly, when the device and system is connected over the same network

In our organization we are not allowed to connect real mobile device to our system using USB. This is due to strict security protocol and no exceptions will be allowed, if requested. Therefore, we are trying to communicate between the mobile devic...
16 days ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

Default browser in playback for the first time should show the same browser as recording

[Environment] RFT 10.5.1(WebUI perspective) [Description] Default browser in playback for the first time should show the same browser as recording(RTW_WebUI_Browser_Selection setting). Actual behavior: For example, when try following steps, (1) St...
3 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Want to name VP steps in a WebUI script and show them on Unified Report.

[Environment] RFT10.5.1(WebUI perspective) [Description] Want to name VP steps in a WebUI script and show them on Unified Report. For example, in case of Unified Report in English, a VP step starts from "Verify" word so it could be easy to find th...
3 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Future consideration

Upgrade RFT eclipse to support Java 11

We need to move our framework to java 11 to take advantage of the improvements but having RFT still on Java 8 is a hindrance.
6 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Future consideration

feature to differentiate each image VP captured on a control by setting different name

Image verification points created on the same page have the same display(control) name in a simplified script and it makes difficult to differentiate each VP. If a user tries to change the control name of one VP to something (for example "A"), ...
12 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Future consideration

Make RFT recognize a file dialog using simplified script and Edge in both recording/playback

[Environment]RFT 10.2.1(RFT perspective and simplified script) + Chronium Edge [Description]We migrated to RFT 10.1.2 to verify Edge because IE will EOS in June 2022.A file dialog which is recognized in IE is not recognized in recording/playback o...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Support drop down list in recording of Edge(Chrome)

When record selecting an item in drop down list, following coment is added in a script and you need to add java snippet in the script. // Ignoring the dropdown click, manually add statement for selecting item, use click(atText"item name"); We hope...
about 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

Make a link which has 2 lines and the second line is shorter than the center correctly clicked in playback

When a link has 2 lines and the second line is shorter than the center, the link is not correctly clicked in playback. Request to make the link correctly click in playback. [Environment] RFT 10.2.1(RFT perspective + RFT Extention on MS-Edge)
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Add function to adjust the width of the table cell showing VP comparison result in unified report

In Details pane of unified report, tables showing data grid VP result display actual/expected data in fixed-width cells. Long data cannot be fully displayed in a cell, and short data has too much space. Both cases degrade readability.
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration