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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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Improved VP reporting

Amazing! I just saw it today. We don't have a clear VP reporting. In a VP should be stated clearly "What's expected/baseline: " and "What is observed: ". In all VPs only the observed is documented. Bad, bad, bad.When possible it should be reported...
about 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

RTWW - user unable to record the keyboard action

During the recording of a test script there are many occations that the user is forced to use the keyboard controls to navigate the browser Ex: Tab , enter and function keysCurrently RTWW do not support such user actions. It would be good to have ...
about 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

RFT support for MS Word and Excel

Need RFT support in recording MS word and Ms excel operations for Techmahindra customer.
about 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

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...
about 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

Upper Case / Lower Case verification

As a user I want to be able to distinguish Upper Case / Lower Case verification. So that I will be able to have a script failure when the text verified is upper case instead of lower case for example.
about 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...
about 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

Allow verification points of variables

It would be great to allow verification points to be logged with a pass/fail against variables when validating the contents of a variable.
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

Enhancement request regarding auto-generation of web service client source code by Rational Application Developer

Rational Application Developer(RAD) v9.x generates java source files for web service client with UTF-8 encode, the customer is using RAD from v8.x, which creates java source codes with the default encode in the platform (SJIS for the customer).The...
almost 9 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Application Developer 3 Planned for future release