Developing an application on a real-time operating system and embedded environment usually requires in-depth knowledge of the embedded environment, even when using the various toolkits available to you. In this tutorial you'll look at Rational Rose RealTime (renamed IBM Rational Rose Technical Developer), a visual-modeling system that allows you...   Read Article.

This tutorial shows you how to use the Data Modeler within the Rational XDE toolset to manage your database design and maintenance. It takes you through all the steps required to create a logical model for your database, and to transform this into a physical diagram and set of scripts for database creation. This tutorial also shows you how to start...   Read Article.

This guide is intended to help QA managers, developers, and test engineers read and customize scripts generated with Rational Robot. Familiarity with Robot and other Rational Test software is assumed. Familiarity with programming language practices (but not necessarily Microsoft Basic programming) is also assumed. SQABasic is the Rational Software...   Read Article.

This manual describes the APIs that you use to extend the capabilities of Rational TestManager. The manual is divided into two parts: Part 1: Adding Custom Test Script Types Part 1 describes the APIs you use if you want TestManager to manage and run custom test script types in addition to the standard test types that it supports (such as SQABasic,...   Read Article.

Rational Robot is a complete set of tools for automating the testing of Microsoft Windows client/server and Internet applications running under Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows Me. This manual describes how to use Rational Robot to test the quality of your applications. The manual explains how to plan tests,tests, develop...   Read Article.

This manual provides conceptual information and task-oriented guidelines for using Rational QualityArchitect. QualityArchitect is a collection of integrated tools for testing middleware components built with technologies such as Enterprise JavaBeans and COM. Audience This guide is intended for all members of the development team who design, write,...   Read Article.

Rational® TestManager is an open and extensible framework that unites all of the tools, artifacts, and data both related to and produced by the testing effort. Under this single umbrella, all stakeholders and participants in the testing effort can define and refine the quality goals they are working toward. This manual describes how to use TestManager...   Read Article.

This roadmap provides an outline of the material that is most useful to bring users up the Rational Robot learning curve for functional testing. The emphasis will be on the steps you will need to take to understand Robot and get to the point where you can efficiently use the tool for functional testing. First, find the section that best describes your...   Read Article.

The Windows Scripting Host provides a COM interface. COM interfaces are one way an application can quot;speak to,quot; or use, the functions of another application. In our example, Robot will send commands and retrieve values from the Windows Scripting Host interface. Our first step is to connect to this interface. This is accomplished in the following...   Read Article.

IBM Rational Manual Tester: Automated support for non-automated testing.This article describes a new tool that supports manual testing, still the method of choice in many software development organizations. IBM Rational Manual Tester helps business analysts and others accelerate and improve the results of their application validation testing....   Read Article.

This article, based on a Rational User Conference presentation, answers the common question "How do I get Robot to reboot the system and launch another script?" It provides a custom component to do the lion's share and describes how it works....   Read Article.

SQABasic "StringUtilities" Library Utility routines for working with Strings. Many of these routines now use an external ActiveX object to provide their functionality. In this way, the functionality is common to ANY string processing application on Windows. The Class is DDVariableStore.StringUtilities in DDVariableStore.DLL This DLL is required...   Read Article.

Rational Robot Installation Manual PDF Document...   Read Article.