You must enable your web
browsers before you can use Functional Tester to test HTML applications.
The first time you run Functional Tester, it automatically enables
Internet Explorer. If you have Firefox you must enable them using
the Enable button, as described below. If
you add a new browser, or Functional Tester fails to find a browser,
you must run the enabler.
Before you begin
- To enable the browsers for testing on Windows 7, you must log
in as an administrator or start Rational Functional Tester by choosing the option
to Run as Administrator.
About this task
To run the HTML Enabler:
Procedure
- Click any
time from Functional Tester to invoke the Enable Environments dialog
box (the enabler).
- Click the Web Browsers tab.
- Click Search. The Search for
Web Browsers dialog box opens.
- Search the browser using any of the following search
method:
- Select Search All to let the enabler locate
all the browsers on your system. Functional Tester will scan all of
your hard drives or partitions, and list the browsers in the Web
Browsers list.
- Select Search In to browse to a specific
drive or root directory to search.
Note: You should not use the Search All option
to find browsers on Linux® or UNIX® systems.
Instead use the Search In option and browse
for it.
- Click the Search button.
- Select the browsers you want to enable by clicking on them
in the Web Browsers list. You can select multiple
browsers by using the Ctrl key while selecting.
Click the Select All button if you want to
enable all of them.
- Click Enable. The selected
browser(s) will be enabled for HTML testing. The enabled browsers
will be indicated in parentheses after each browser name in the list.
- Select a browser to be the default, and click the Set
as Default button.
- Click Close.
Results
Notes: - If the enabler fails to find a browser in the registry or on
your system, you can click the Add button.
This brings up the Add Browser dialog box, which you can use to locate
the browser. After you select it and click Add,
the browser will then be added to the Web Browsers list
in the enabler, and you follow the same steps above to enable or disable
it. If you try to add a file that is not a browser, you will get an
error and it won't be added to the list.
- If your browser is not enabled, the Recording Monitor is blank
when you try to record against an HTML application. We recommend leaving
the Recording Monitor in view while recording for this reason. If
you see this symptom, you need to run the enabler.
- To test applets in HTML, you need to enable your JREs. To enable
JREs for Java™ testing, see the Enabling
Java Environments topic.
- The first time you run Functional Tester, it automatically enables
the JVM of your browser's Java plug-in
so that HTML recording works properly. If you install a different
JVM, you must rerun the enabler to enable it. However, if you experience
an error regarding the Java plug-in
during HTML testing, or when trying to launch the Verification Point
Comparator from the HTML log, you need to make sure your plug-in is
configured properly. See Enabling the Java Plug-in of a Browser topic
for instructions.
- You can test that your browser is enabled properly by clicking
the Test button. This opens the Browser Enablement
Diagnostic Tool. If you suspect your browser is not enabled properly,
run this tool and follow the instructions it gives to solve the problem.
- If you are using Firefox, you need to enable that browser using
the Enable button as described above. When
you select one of them and click Enable, it
will launch the browser and you will be prompted to click in the browser
to enable it. Click the link, and then click OK if
you get a message box.