To use
Rational® Functional Tester to
test HTML applications that run on Google Chrome browsers, you must
enable the Google Chrome browser manually.
Before you begin
Ensure that you install the Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
1.6 update 10 or later, and associate the JRE with the Google Chrome
browser.
About this task
Note: If you have Google Chrome version 33 or later, you must download the Rational Functional Tester for
Google Chrome extension from Chrome web store. If you already had the extension and then you
upgraded to Chrome version 33 or later, you must uninstall the extension and install it again from
the Chrome web store.
You can enable the browser manually by using one of the
following methods:
- By enabling the browser from the Enable Environments dialog
box in Rational Functional Tester.
The browser opens and you are prompted to add the IBM® Rational Functional Tester for
Google Chrome™ extension to the browser.
- By adding the IBM Rational Functional Tester for
Google Chrome extension to the browser from the Google Chrome web
store. For instructions to do this, see Adding the IBM Rational Functional Tester for Google Chrome extension. Ensure that
you have an Internet connection to access the extension from the Google
Chrome web store. After adding the extension, verify that the browser
is enabled by opening the Enable Environments dialog
box in Rational Functional Tester.
Procedure
- In Rational Functional Tester,
click to invoke the Enable
Environments dialog box (the enabler).
- Click the Web Browsers tab. Add
the Google Chrome browser to the Web Browsers list
by doing the following:
- Click Search. The Search
for Web Browsers dialog box opens.
- Search for the Google Chrome browser using any of the
following search methods:
- Select Search All to let the enabler locate
all the browsers on your system. Rational Functional Tester scans
all the hard disk drives or partitions, and lists the browsers in
the Web Browsers list.
- Select Search In to browse to a specific
disk drive or root directory to search.
- Click the Search button.
- On the Web Browsers tab, click Chrome in
the Web Browsers list, and click Enable. The Google Chrome browser opens and you are prompted to
add the IBM Rational Functional Tester for
Google Chrome extension to the browser. If you intend to add the extension,
click Continue and then click OK.
The extension is added to the browser, and the browser is enabled
for functional testing. On the Web Browsers tab
In the Enable Environments dialog box, the enabled
status is indicated in parentheses after the Google Chrome browser
name in the Web Browsers list.
- Test that the browser is enabled properly by clicking the Test button
to run the Browser Enablement Diagnostic Tool.
- In the Enable Environments dialog
box, click Finish.
Results
After you enable the Google Chrome browser manually, you can
start testing applications that run in Google Chrome browsers.