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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

Rational Automated Software Quality

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Unexpected object detection

As a user I want an option for RTW to detect unexpected objects and windows when playing back a script. When an unexpected object appears I want RTW to keep information about that object, so that I will be able in the future to add conditions or n...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

RTW steps print for multiple test scripts

As a user I would like to select a list of RTW scripts in my RTW project and to print them in a single Excel (.csv) or PDF document including the title for each script + the script steps as displayed in RTW. It would be useful to search for inform...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

More conditions and loop instructions

As a user I want to have switch condition , do while instructions and so on...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Not under consideration

Would like to call "sub-routine" scripts

We have the case where many of our test cases do the same verification of table columns (sorting, filtering, etc.). We designate the column and perform the action. These actions are the same for every column. It would be really nice to have the ab...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

Comprehensive Documentation - improved documentation

Comprehensive Documentation - the IBM knowledge Center is very hard to navigate. It would be nice if we had more advanced and detailed pdf documents about RIT. CA Lisa's website on documentation is an examplehttps://docops.ca.com/devtest-solutions...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Workbench 1 Future consideration

RTWW - Ability to create variables on the fly

When a user is attempting to ‘create variable assignment from content', user is unable to create a new variable to assign this, so he need to create the variable first and then come to this step to assign it to the right variable.If the user can c...
about 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

RTWW – Support for “capturing multiple data fields at single instance” into Datapool

IN Rational fucntional tester, user can capture large amount of data fields into the datapool (all the fields in one go). This can save time and effort instead of captureing every field and modifying the data. This feature can be helpful for RTWW ...
about 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Not under consideration

RTWW - Support for variable substitution for "Think time" and "time out"

User want to substitute a variable for all the test step for "Think time" and "time out".It can increase the user experience when handling large amount of scripts and executing the scripts across differnt environmentsEx: The development environmen...
about 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 5 Not under consideration

RTWW - Support for manual test recording from IBM Rational Quality Manager

In the RQM, while creating the manual test script, user have the option to record the web action, so that the manual test steps are being automaicaly generated and loaded into the RQM.This is a very interesting features, that is currently done by ...
about 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Not under consideration

Image comparator supports identification of differences

The current RFT/RTW image comparator shows only the baseline and the actual image (if they differ). When having large and complex screens validated with this method, it would be very helpfull if you get support in identifying the (group of)pixels ...
over 11 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release