IBM Rational offers you two leading testing tools for automated functional testing: - IBM Rational Functional Tester, - IBM Rational Robot GUI scripting. You can read here about the environments in which the tools operate. This document offers the novice to intermediate user general guidelines about the possibilities of both software products. You can find details elsewhere.

This whitepaper describes how to handle errors that might occur during execution of an IBM® Rational® Robot GUI script. GUI stands for "graphical user interface". Errors that might occur at playback time are script command failures, unexpected active windows or trappable run time errors. In most cases it is preferable to handle trappable run time errors without GoTo statements. The case of the GetField function needs a separate treatment.

Creating IBM® Rational® Product release areas has come into light to save administrators from several hours of manual installations. A release area is a preconfigured setup directory that users can access over the network. This predefined area takes the know how out of the users hands and leaves it to the administrator. This ensures that all users would have the same exact setup and functionality. This functionality made installing IBM Rational products a manageable job in an environment under any applicati

If a verification point (VP) fails in an IBM® Rational® Robot script at playback time, Robot creates a file. The Robot documentation calls this file an actual. This whitepaper discusses the advantages of the new function SQAVpGetCurrentActualFileName, gives you the syntax and presents examples on the use. This function is available in version 7.0.0.1 and onwards.