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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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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...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

navigateur embarqué dans une application java swing

voir ticket TS012966608 Notre logiciel qui est développé en angular : l'application sur laquelle nous faisons les tests est un exécutable lancé sur notre machine windows. Celui ci est développé en java swing et en ce qui concerne angular, c'est un...
over 1 year ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Not under 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.
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Future consideration

Icon images of xml test log in Microsoft Edge should be appearred like IE

IE11 goes out of support on 15th June 2022 so we are preparing to use Edge instead but icon images of xml test result are not be appearred on Edge like IE and it is very hard to see. See attached image files:- XML_Test_Log(IE).png- XML_Test_Log(Ed...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Functionality already exists

IBM RFT v10.1.2 - Maven plug-in not supported

Hello Team, It will be useful and beneficial for the teams if they like to import Maven-Java projects with Selenium automation scripts already designed and developed. We noticed, IBM-RFT v10.1.2 does not support the Maven plug-in. We tried contact...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

Unable to view folders and files created outside WebUI perspective

Team, This problem is found with IBM-RFT v10.1.2 - Web UI Perspective. User-A created folders "Regression_Test" and "Sanity_Test" in the Web UI project. User-A successfully checked into the TFS system. USER-B checks out the latest project from the...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration

Allow folder and script file name changes in IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT)

We adopted IBM RFT for our functional test use. This tool is based on Eclipse. For regular Eclipse Java related project, it is very easy to make changes on Folder/File name changes. Since during the development, it is very common for the team to a...
almost 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 1 Not under consideration

RFT/RPT adapter for RQM should be able to support shared resources in repositories

When running RFT test scrips from RQM and the RFT test scripts were at a shared location like CCM, the RFT tests would NOT be executed and there was a "projectnotfound" in RFT adapter console. In the user's case, the RFT scripts were shared at CCM...
almost 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

RFT dispatch UI events into html5 <CANVAS> objects: example:: Mouse UP event listener is active on <CANVAS> dispatch Mouse UP

Application makes extensive use of <CANVAS>. Multiple WebGL Listeners are enabled on the <CANVAS> hence JavaScript is ready to execute on 2D and 3D WebGL objects. 3D model display manipulation and selection requires a complex Listener ...
almost 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Not under consideration

Using RFT 3270 scripts with Jenkins

We are unable to start RFT playback triggered from a Jenkins server, when Jenkins is running as a Windows service on the Jenkins node. However this works fine when Jenkins node is connected running a JNLP file in a browser or via CLI.
almost 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Future consideration