Category Archives: Rational Functional Tester

RFT 7.0.1 Known Defects

When recently trying to hunt down a problem with RFT 7.0.1, I came across the following page on the Rational web site: It’s a list of all known defects with RFT 7.0.1. It didn’t help, but it may in the … Continue reading

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How to turn off the RFT 7.0.1 Exception Window

Since the 7.0.1 release of Rational Functional Tester, a very frustrating feature has crept in… the “Exception Window”. What happens is; whenever an exception occurs, instead of it being thrown and caught by standard try{…}catch(Exception e){} code, RFT pauses execution … Continue reading

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Getting the root cause of a nested exception in Java

Nested Exceptions are a good way to deal with test failures in Rational Functional Tester. They work really well, apart from the fact that there is no native way to get the root exception. Sun aren’t going to do anything … Continue reading

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RFT Script Options

Rational Functional Tester provides access to a lot of the “global” values that are used in execution. Things like, how long the “waitForExistence” period is. How long to wait between polling for an object while waiting for it. They’re all … Continue reading

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Method to get a table row as a Hashtable

First post of the new year… I hope it’s coherant. And it’s to do with dealing with rows in tables. Another of RFT’s weak points. This post contains code that will return a hashtable with a specified row’s data. The … Continue reading

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Methods to deal with trees in RFT

Dealing with trees in Rational Functional Tester can be a pain. And there isn’t much good code out there to help. So, I’ve put together a few methods which could serve as a good starting point for you to build … Continue reading

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Method to wait for correct number of rows in a table in RFT

I’ve previously put up code that can be used in RFT to wait for data to appear in a table. What follows is a similar method, but instead of waiting for data, it waits for an exact number of rows … Continue reading

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