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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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Allow network short names when adding new web application

Open DevOps Test UI. Click on Application configuration icon. Browser will open to http://localhost:7878/appconfiguration/index.html?backendPort=7878. Click Add button. Choose "Web". In the URL field, type - http://<ANetworkShortName>:<AP...
10 months ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Delivered

Ability to interact with PIV Certificate when using Browser

Web applications that require the ability to interact with (e.g. use for login) SSL certificates are unable to be tested. RFT is unable to identify and interact with the "Select a certificate" modal that comes up when a web application makes use o...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Delivered

Make RFT recognize objects on popup screen of Edge in both recording/playback.

We are now using RFT10.2.1(RFT perspective and simplified script) and noticed that RFT doesn't recognize any object on popup screen of Edge. This popup is NOT Html Dialog, it's using Edge. In case of IE, objects on the popup screen are correctly r...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 6 Delivered

Clarity for WebUI Browser-Driver Version Mismatch with instructions for manual download and file destination

When WebUI encounters a mismatch with the browser driver version number, sometimes the Click Here automated process does not work, does not indicate success or failure, and does not provide the user with sufficient detail to resolve the issue. It ...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 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...
about 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Delivered

Support arrow keys in playback of Web UI engine

Arrow key like {ExtDown} in "Type Value" doesn't work in playback with following WebUI settings but it works without these 2 settings. [Window] >> [Preferences], [Functional Test]-[Playback]- Play back with Web UI Extention- Play back with W...
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Delivered

Add PEGA Controls in Web UI

Facility has various websites done in PEGA. Some controls are recognized some don't.
almost 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Delivered

Add function to unified report to filter a list of VPs and to display the number of passed/failed VPs

XML type report of previous version has a function to list only verification points and to show the number of passed VPs and failed VPs as shown in the attached screenshot. Migration to RFT 10.2.1 was forced due to the end of support of IE11, a...
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Delivered

The way to display actual/expected images of image VP needs to be improved for readability

Unified report shows distorted (enlarged or shrinked) images when comparing actual and expected image of image VP because each image is rendered in a uniform and fixed-sized area
almost 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Delivered

IBM RFT Web UI Test - v10.1.2: Updating the thinktime for the recorded WebUI test script

We are recording many scripts using the Web UI test project. Some of the scripts have more than 50 or 60 steps and we do need to record 300 to 400 scripts. To improve the performance and to achieve the synchronization, we need to adjust the thinkt...
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 6 Delivered