IBM® Rational® Functional Tester is
an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows, .NET, Java™,
HTML, Siebel, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Flex, Dojo, Visual Basic and
GEF applications. You can also test Adobe PDF
documents, and zSeries, iSeries®, and pSeries applications.
Adobe PDF documents support IBM Rational Functional Tester supports
testing of Portable Document Format (PDF) read-only files created
for Adobe Reader versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 and 11.0. You can test
PDF files that are displayed in a browser or in the stand-alone Adobe
Reader application. A functional test script that is recorded for
files that are displayed in the stand-alone Adobe Reader application
can be played back when the file is displayed in a browser and vice-versa,
provided that the script is recorded for document controls only.
AJAX support Rational Functional Tester supports testing AJAX-based
web applications.
Application Response Measurement support
The Application Response
Measurement (ARM) standard helps measure the end-to-end transaction
performance of an application, including service levels and response
time. Rational Functional Tester uses the response
time breakdown to view the statistics that is captured while running
a test.
Dojo support IBM Rational Functional Tester
supports testing HTML applications that contain Dojo controls on versions of all browsers
supported by Rational Functional Tester. You
can test applications that are developed using Dojo Toolkit versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.2, 1.4.2,
1.5, 1.6.1, 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9.
Eclipse support Rational Functional Tester supports
testing of applications based on Eclipse 3.0.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x, 3.3.x,
3.4.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.2, 4.2 and 4.2.2.
Flex support IBM Rational Functional Tester supports
testing functional aspects of Adobe Flex
applications. You can record and playback scripts against Flex-based
user interfaces inside a web browser and verify that the application
functions correctly.
GEF support Rational Functional Tester allows
testing the functionality of GEF objects that are implemented using
standard GEF editors and non-standard GEF editors. GEF editor is based
on Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) that provides many features for
manipulating models. GEF displays a model graphically, employs MVC
(model-view-controller) architecture and aids user interaction with
that model.
HTML support IBM Rational Functional Tester supports
testing HTML applications that are loaded in a browser.
Java support
This functional testing application supports the following Java versions for testing Java applications
and HTML applications with applets.
.NET support IBM Rational Functional Tester
supports recording and playing back user applications that are
built with the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5,
4.0, 4.5, and 4.5.1. You can also test Microsoft Windows 32-bit
applications that contain .NET controls.
Windows support Rational Functional Tester supports
testing of Windows applications with Win32 controls.
Nested domains support
Functional Tester recognizes two different kinds of nesting
of objects, a parent-child nesting and an owner-owned nesting. A
parent-child nesting occurs when one object is contained within another,
such as a button on a form. An owner-owned nesting occurs when the
owned object has its own top-level window, such as a dialog box that
is owned by a top-level window.
PowerBuilder support IBM Rational Functional Tester supports
the testing of Win32 targets and .NET targets that are created by
using Sybase PowerBuilder versions 10.5, 11.0, 11.2, 11.5, 12.0, and
12.5.
SAP support IBM Rational Functional Tester supports
extended functional testing of SAP GUI for Windows, SAP GUI for HTML
and applications that are developed using SAP WebDynPro framework.
Siebel support
IBM Rational Functional Tester contains extended
functional testing support for Siebel applications.
Silverlight support IBM Rational Functional Tester supports
testing applications that are developed using Microsoft Silverlight version 4.0 and are
loaded in Microsoft Internet
Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0. You can also test Silverlight applications
running on desktops, as well as embedded Silverlight applications.
Testing Silverlight applications is only supported on 32-bit versions
of Internet Explorer.
Visual Basic support
IBM Rational Functional Tester supports testing
Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 applications.
Terminal-based applications support
Rational Functional Tester Extension for Terminal-based
Applications supports functional testing of Mainframe or zSeries (TN3270,
TN3270E), AS/400 or iSeries (TN5250) and pSeries or Virtual Terminals
(VT default, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT220-7, VT220-8, VT320, VT420-7,
VT420-8, VT52, VT UTF-8).