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what is the difference between Rational Robot (Rational Functional Tester)and IBM functional tester?
which is better?

Asked by: sailaja | Member Since Sep-2005 | Asked on: Sep 16th, 2005

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ramasuryanarayana

Answered On : Sep 25th, 2005

Ibm rational functional tester extension for terminal applicationis quite superior to any of the solutions avialble for Ibm rational robot

and Ibm functional tester is better than the rational robot

  
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satish kumar

Answered On : Oct 14th, 2005

 satish kumar:

               may I know is there any Load testing tool called Rational Site Load tool,where can I get the information from and  is the tool is similar to that of Load Runner,and also tell me the similarities and differences in that tool.....

  
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vidya

Answered On : Oct 19th, 2005

Rational functional tester when compared to the Rational Robot reduces the scripting effort & time.

Rational functional tester has only 2 verification points whereas the Rational Robot has 13 verification points.

In Rational functional tester scripting is done through simple Java programming where as in Rational robot scripting is done using SQA BAsic language

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SohanKarim

Answered On : Oct 26th, 2005

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There is no difference between 'Rational Functional Tester' and 'IBM functional tester'. It's the same thing. Since 2003 IBM bought Rational and they wanted to market the that IBM and RATIONAL are same thing. So they sometimes use IBM w/R sign which represents Registered tradmark owner.Sohan Karim

  
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krane

Answered On : Nov 15th, 2005

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Rational Robot and Ration Functional Test(RFT) are two different test automation products and both from IBM.

Ofcourse, As the previous person said, IBM bought Robot a while ago.

RFT is from IBM and use Java kind OOPS language (Objects & stuff like SILK TEST TOOL) & VB.net as languages whereas Robot use SQA basic (like VBA code) for scripting.

Robot works very well with Power Builder applications, whereas RFT works very well with J2EE projects, ASP.net, VB Projects as well as many other.

RFT is most advanced version with lot of features like supports automating mainframe testing wih emulators, etc. There is lot to talk about it..

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lavanya

Answered On : Oct 3rd, 2007

Rational Robot supports


1. Provides only one standard scripting facility, SQABasic a Rational Robots
propriety scripting language similar to VB Scripting.

2. All the functionality of Rational Robot is performed on Windows Platform
only.

3. Uses the syntax & Semantics of Procedural Oriented Language.




RFT supports


1. RFT supports two platforms i.e. Window & Linux, All functions except
recording is performed in Linux.

2. It provides two development platforms, Java Scripting on Rational Software
Development Platform & VB.NET Scripting on Visual Studio.NET

3. The scripting technique uses the concept of objects & classes

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krsandhya84

Answered On : May 20th, 2008

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The latest version of the Functional tester (7.0.1) have 5 verification points. Data Vp, Property Vp, Get a specific property value Vp, Wait for selected object, and Image Vp. 

  
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singh.mukesh

Answered On : May 28th, 2008

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Rational Functional tester and IBM funtional tester is one and the same thing...........

so the name u find better u can go for it................

rational robot and rational functional tester is different.......... and here rational functional tester is better coz its specialized for functional testing. whereas rational robot includes functional as well as performance testing.

  
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MQTech

Answered On : May 23rd, 2010

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Although IBM Functional Tester is easier to use and offer more features, there are few applications that there objects will not be recognized.

On the other hand Rational functional tester (Robot) support more platforms.

  
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