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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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RFT supports for Microsoft Edge with IE mode

Now, we are using Microsoft Edge but web application designed for IE is still remaining. Therefore, we request RFT supports Edge with IE mode.
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

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

Improve the datapool efficiency when using with multiple scripts

Lets assume there are two scripts Script 1 and Script 2. Both of there scripts are using the common data pool. When Script 1(iterate until done) calls Script 2 on first iteration (while the first row is fetched from the data pool) and if Script 2 ...
almost 5 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.
over 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.
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.
almost 8 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Planned for future release

CMake Support in RTRT

Rational test real time does not support CMake projects, which is a de-facto choice for managing C++ projects now a days. CMake projects, are supported by almost all modern IDEs. Its difficult to create a separate project for RTRT using the source...
over 2 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / RealTime 6 Planned for future release

RFT WebUI automated script should support actions on the HTML page located locally while recording

Case number TS006982051 1. Launch IBM-RFT2. Open the existing Web UI Project3. Create a new test4. Select the “Test from Recording”5. RFT launches the selected browser – Chrome6. Enter the HTML file location - file://mndeeddom.deed.state.mn.us/dat...
about 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 3 Planned for future release

Not having access to perform action on print screen in Edge

RFT is not able to access any element from print popup in Edge. - Launch the edge browser- Click Print link from Setting or press ctrl + P
over 3 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release

Capability to use only .NET Framework 4.7 Advanced series for recording SAP GUI Windows application

.NET framework 3.5 and .NET framework 4.7 advance series enable required in the machine to record/playback the SAP GUI 750 windows application.
over 4 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 4 Planned for future release