IBM Rational Systems Tester version 3.3 readme

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2 June, 2009

 

 

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This file contains last-minute product information and updates to IBM Rational Systems Tester 3.3 release.

It is divided into the following sections:

For the latest news and information on IBM Rational Systems Tester, visit the IBM Rational website at http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/ttester/support/


System Requirements

To run IBM Rational Systems Tester 3.3 you need to have one of the following operating systems installed on your computer:

·         Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or later

·         Sun Sparc running Solaris 9 or Solaris 10

·         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (AS 4.0, ES 4.0, WS 4.0)

Citrix

·         Citrix Server Operating System: Windows 2003 Server Standard

·         Citrix Server Operating System: Windows 2003 Server Enterprise

·         Server: Citrix MetaFrame XPe Version 3.0 – Feature Release 3 or later

Microsoft Windows system requirements

Resource

Minimum

Recommended

Processor

Pentium 500 MHz

Pentium 1 GHz

RAM

256 MB

512 MB

Virtual Memory

512 MB

1024 MB

Disk Space (Installation)

148 MB (approximately)

 

Linux system requirements

Resource

Minimum

Recommended

Processor

Pentium 500 MHz

Pentium 1 GHz

RAM

256 MB

512 MB

Virtual Memory

512 MB

1024 MB

Disk Space (Installation)

260 MB (approximately)

 

Solaris system requirements

Resource

Minimum

Recommended

Processor

Solaris 9, Sparc Ultra10 CPU 1x450MHz

Solaris 9, Sparc 280r CPU 2x900MHz

Virtual Memory

512 MB

1024 MB

Disk Space (Installation)

360 MB (approximately)

 

Run-time patches for all Solaris 9 systems

Patch

Reasons for patch

Synopsis

111722-04

ANSI C++ <cmath> support lacks float and long double signatures

SunOS 5.9: Math Library (libm) patch

X server (UNIX clients only)

IBM Rational Systems Tester is a Windows application that is ported to UNIX platforms using third-party software, MainWin, which is implemented using the X11 library. IBM Rational Systems Tester version 3.2 (and subsequent patches) has been ported using MainWin version 5.0.4.

Native displays

MainWin supports ‘native’ displays, provided the appropriate X server and graphic card patches are applied.

X servers on Windows

To display IBM Rational Systems Tester clients running on UNIX on a PC running Windows requires Hummingbird Exceed. Exceed versions 8 and 9 is required.

Display settings

The following display settings are recommended:

·         16 bit color depth or better.

·         Resolution (screen area) 1024 by 768 pixels, or higher.

Other system requirements

For additional information on system requirements, including recommended configurations, visit the Support Web site

Operating system locales supported by IBM Rational Systems Tester 3.3

General

The internationalization support in IBM Rational Systems Tester is available on Windows XP only. It is assumed that you use a local version of Windows and also set the locale to use your language. For more information about topics in this area, please refer to the chapter “Internationalization Support” available in the IBM Rational Systems Tester user documentation.

Compatible Products

IBM Rational DOORS

o        IBM Rational DOORS 8.2

o        IBM Rational DOORS 8.3

o        IBM Rational DOORS 9.0

o        IBM Rational DOORS 9.1

o        IBM Rational DOORS 9.2

Licensing

Macrovision FLEXnet 11.5.

Viewing help

To be able to read online documentation in PDF format you need to have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer.

Configuration management

Via SCCI 1.1 the following configuration management tools are supported:

Windows

o        IBM Rational Synergy/CM 6.5 (requires IBM Rational PC Integrations 1.8)

o        IBM ClearCase 5.0

o        IBM ClearCase 6.0

o        Microsoft SourceSafe 6.0

Linux

o        IBM ClearCase 5.00 with patch clearcase_p2002.05.00-41

o        IBM ClearCase 6.00 with patch clearcase_p2003.06.00-10

Solaris

o        IBM ClearCase 5.0

o        IBM ClearCase 6.0

C Code Generation Support

Supported compilers on Windows:

·         Microsoft Visual C++ version 8.0 referred to as Visual Studio .NET 2005

·         VxWorks 5.5 ccsimpc gcc/c++ 2.96 Tornado 2.2 soft kernel.

·         gcc 3.2 for compilation of projects using Cygwin.

Supported compilers on Solaris:

·         Sun Studio 8 C/C++ ELF 32 or ELF 64

o        Required: Patches 113817-09, 112763-04

·         gcc 3.2

·         VxWorks 5.5 ccsimsol gcc/g++ 2.96 Tornado 2.2 soft kernel.

Supported compilers on Linux:

·         gcc 3.2

Comments

·         All Windows and Linux architectures are IA32 compatible.

·         All Solaris architectures are UltraSPARC-II.


Installing IBM Rational Systems Tester 3.3

The Installation Guide for IBM Rational Systems Tester is available on the Documentation CD.

Obtaining a license for IBM Rational Systems Tester

To obtain a license for IBM Rational Systems Tester you need to provide Customer Support with the hostname and hostid of the computer on which the license server is to be run. How to proceed is described in detail in the Installation Guide available on the Documentation CD.

What's new in version 3.3

Support for 3GPP Benchmark test suite

                      - Error cases of predefined functions (TTCN3 3.3.2 CR383)

                      - Stand-alone statement blocks (TTCN3 3.3.2 CR418)

                      - Remove some restrictions on accessing parts of templates in left hand sides of assignments (TTCN3 3.3.2 CR1863)

                      - Verdict reason (TTCN3 3.4.1 CR2808)

 

Support for ETSI LTE test suite

                      - Preprocessor macros (TTCN3 3.4.1 CR415)

                      - Passing omit to value formal parameters (TTCN3 3.3,2 CR416)

                      - Allow specification of non-optional templates (TTCN3 3.4.1 CR2975)


Known problems

For details of known problems in IBM Rational Systems Tester 3.3 and how to resolve them, visit the support center on the Support Web site.

Fixed Problems

For details of problems that have been resolved in IBM Rational Systems Tester 3.3, visit the support center on the Support Web site.

Contact Support

To contact IBM Rational Support, visit IBM Rational Software Support site.

 


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