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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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IBM RFT support for implementing CI/CD or DevOps

We are trying to implement CI/CD using Jenkins and IBM RFT. The RFT runs on a Jenkins node (Windows VM) is invoked from a Jenkins master. We noticed few issues which are bottlenecks for this implementation. RFT execution fails with WindowsActivate...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 7 Delivered

RFT Edge chromium browser FOR BUSINESS support for functional testing

RFT support chromium based Edge browser. But RFT only support public edition. RFT not support business edition. https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/edge/business/download Business edition is different from public edition about install path ant execute...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Delivered

RFT Edge browser

Document object of the chromium browser is not captured for the running browser instance. (chromium is not launched using Startbrowser API)
about 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Delivered

Passing parameters as user arguments from Jenkins to RFT using the RFT plugin.

Please provide the ability tp pass parameters defined in the Jenkins job to the RFT Script, as user arguments, using the Functional Tester Plugin for Jenkins.
about 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Delivered

csv files are separated by semicolons (;), this separator is not recognized by RTW 9.2.1 and 10.1

our csv files are separated by semicolons (;), this separator is not recognized by RTW 9.2.1 and 10.1
over 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Workbench 4 Delivered

Capability to provide Firefox Browser Profile path for RFT script playback in Linux

Currently the capability to provide Firefox Browser Profile path for RFT script playback (to select specific version if 2 FF versions are installed) on Linux machine is not available. Playback considers only the default browser path which is used ...
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Delivered

Lauching a test with Chrome in private mode or clean the browser cache at startup

The application being tested tends to keep caches in browsers and crashes our tests.The idea would be to launch in RTW our scripts using private Chrome or clean the browser cache at startup.
about 5 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Delivered

Content Security Policy which is using unsafe-inline to generate a Key

On https://cloud.google.com/blog/, during recording when a user clicks on the first image(only on images), nothing gets recorded. But the rest of the AUT controls are correctly recorded.During WebUi recording an error message is thrown indicating ...
almost 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Delivered

Add PEGA Controls in Web UI

Facility has various websites done in PEGA. Some controls are recognized some don't.
over 6 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Delivered

Expand in Log should work on selected node only

In the log viewer there is the + and - icon to expand and collapse. This is always for the whole testlog. This can be enourmous! So I propose to expand only the selected node and it's children.Interesting would be expanding only the next X levels ...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester / Workbench 2 Delivered