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Here are some highlights from the recent Rational Test 10.2 release
Rational Test Automation Server updates
10.2 is focused on GA-ing our TechPreviewed features like Mobile testing and Service Virtualization and many more usability improvements
- Service Virtualization (GA) - Allow users to run HTTP/MQ virtual services from RTAS and manage stub executions separately from other test resources. This feature is now GA
- System under test modeling to support Service Virtualization (GA) - Users are now able to use System Model to examine resources associated with specific components in their System Under Test
- Team Spaces (GA) - Provides the capability to organize, manage visibility and some assets of projects inside a team space
- Team-based ACLs for System model operations
- Ability to easily change the Name and Parent of System Model Components
- New licensing for Service Virtualization on RTAS - Concurrent Virtual Services based licensing applicable to On Prem or Cloud native deployment of Virtual Services
- Added new Component column in Resource page so that user can see Virtual Services connected to a Component. Added the ability to sort and filter on Component column
- Allow the stopping of multiple executions, in particular virtual service instances, in a single request
- Usability improvements - Many "Quality of life" improvements like the following were added to RTAS. For more details, please refer to the official documentation
- Ability to select from all the versions of test asset for execution
- Let the user know when test and server versions are incompatible
- As a tester/viewer, repositories needs to be migrated before any user logs in
- Add multiple user defined capabilities
Rational Performance Tester and Rational Service Tester updates
- Support for Application Support monitoring - To allow testers to get better insight into bottlenecks in their system, RPT will paint requests with a header that will allow APM tools to gather information
- JSON data to use JSON parsing instead of regular expressions for easier correlation
- Recording with Microsoft Edge (Chromium based)
Rational Integration Tester updates
- Added the ability for users to select a range of ephemeral ports a stub can use
- New stub licensing (Concurrent Virtual Services)
- Improvements to OAuth2 Authentication and Authorization mechanisms
- User can create data-driven tests for an operation that uses the message exchange pattern (MEP), and run the test with auto generated test data.
- JMS subscriber related changes
Rational Functional Tester updates
- WebUI changes - Web UI now supports Mobile and Windows application testing. So, we've renamed WebUI to "UI"
- The user is provided a provision to auto update the driver through preferences when playing FT HTML Script.
- Allow users to record application launched on Microsoft Edge browser by Functional Tester Traditional
- Enhanced Azure plugin to support all possible options that can be passed to RFT playback
- General Availability of Mobile and Windows Application Test Automation
- Unified Report - Export to PDF/JUnit from CLI
Resources
You can find some of our latest blogs, videos and Webinars below
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Contact Us
Suhas Kashyap, Product Manager for Rational Test - suhas.kashyap@ibm.com
Marianne Hollier, Client Advocacy Manager - marianne.hollier@hcl.com
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