Rational Testing Products Service Release 2001A.04.01.293.004 Release Notes
July 2001
Copyright © 2001 Rational Software Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
These release notes describe the software defects that have been fixed in Service Release 1 for the Rational testing products as contained in the archive teststudio2001A.04.01.293.004.zip. These fixes are primarily for Rational TestManager (including the Test Log Viewer) and Rational Robot. Install this service release if you are using the Rational TestStudio, TeamTest, or Robot products or are using TestManager and Robot in other Rational Suites. The archive teststudio2001A.04.01.293.004.zip contains updates for Windows 9.x, NT, 2000, and ME. For updates of TestManager without Robot, use the archive testmanager2001A.04.01.293.004.zip. For updates of UNIX Test Agents, use the archive unixtestagents_2001A.04.01.293.004.zip.
Contacting Rational Technical Support
1. Stop all Rational products.
2. When you are installing TestStudio, you must stop the ProxyServer
Service (rtpxsr.exe) if it is running on your computer. Do the following:
·
For NT servers:
a)
Select
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Services.
b)
Select
ProxyServerService.
c)
Click Stop.
·
For Windows 2000:
a) Select Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative
Tools->Computer Management.
b) Click Services and Applications.
c) Click Services.
d) Select ProxyServerService.
e) From the Action menu, click Stop.
3. To stop the Agent process for NT and Windows 2000 test agents
a)
Open Task Manager.
b)
Select the Task Manager
Processes tab.
c)
End the agent process
called rtprvd.exe.
4. If you are going to be doing DCOM recording, you should unregister
your existing version of rtxcomspy.dll:
a) Select Start->Run and then type cmd. A command prompt appears.
b) Change (cd) to the
folder that contains your existing Rational Test installation (%RATL_RTHOME%).
c) Type the
command: regsvr32 -u rtxcomspy.dll
5.
If you have previously done DCOM recording, your registry
will contain two keys related to DCOM recording, Exclude CLSID Set and PreCache
Typelib Set. These keys must be
replaced. If these keys are not present
in your registry, skip this step. If
the keys do exist, use regedit to rename them
a)
Select
Start->Run and then type regedit.
The Registry Editor will appear.
b)
In the
Registry Editor, navigate to the selection:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Rational
Software\Rational Test\8\Robot\VU Recording\API Recording
c)
Rename the “Exclude CLSID Set” entry to “RTM Exclude CLSID Set” by right clicking on the “Exclude
CLSID Set” entry.
d)
Rename the “PreCache Typelib Set” entry to “RTM PreCache Typelib Set” by right clicking on the “PreCache
Typelib Set” entry.
The keys will be
automatically re-generated with updated values the next time you record.
1. If you have downloaded the service release consolidated patch zip
file, rs_2001a.04.01_consolidated_patch.zip, you’ll need to first extract teststudio2001A.04.01.293.004.zip
from it. If you already have the teststudio2001A.04.01.293.004.zip
file, skip Steps 2 through 4 below and go to Step 5.
2. Go to the folder in which you downloaded the service release
consolidated patch zip file.
3. Open the consolidated patch zip file and select teststudio2001A.04.01.293.004.zip.
Extract teststudio2001A.04.01.293.004.zip by clicking on Extract and specifying
a new folder, such a C:\Temp\TestStudio.
This extracts teststudio2001A.04.01.293.004.zip to the folder rs_2001a.04.01_consolidated_patch
contained in the new folder you specified.
4. Go into
the rs_2001a.04.01_consolidated_patch folder in the folder that you specified
in Step 3, for example, C:\Temp\TestStudio\rs_2001a.04.01_consolidated_patch.
5. Extract
the files from teststudio2001A.04.01.293.004.zip into a
new folder named SR1.
6. When the
extraction is complete, select Start->Run and then type cmd. A command prompt appears.
7. Change (cd) to the SR1 folder that contains the extracted
files.
8. Install
the service release.
·
To install the service release for a local (non-agent)
computer, change (cd) to the
Windows folder and type the following command:
xcopy /e
/s *.* “C:\Program Files\Rational”
This command copies all service release files into their
corresponding Rational folders. If you originally installed in a folder other
than C:\Program Files\Rational, use that folder name in the xcopy command.
·
To install on a Windows
Test Agent computer, copy the contents of the Windows_Agent directory to the
Rational installation directory.
Change (cd) to the
Windows_Agent folder and type the following command:
xcopy /e
/s *.* “C:\Program Files\Rational”
This will copy all service release files into their
corresponding Rational folders. If you originally installed in a folder other
than C:\Program Files\Rational, use that folder name in the xcopy command,
9. If you are going to be doing DCOM recording, you must register
the updated version of rtxcomspy.dll:
a) Select Start->Run and then type cmd. A command prompt appears.
b) Change (cd) to the folder that contains your existing Rational Test installation
(%RATL_RTHOME%).
c) Type the command: regsvr32 rtxcomspy.dll
Note: On Windows NT and Windows 2000 hosts, both the ProxyServer
Service and agent process are configured by default to start at boot time. If
you do not reboot after installing the service release, restart the ProxyServer
Service on local hosts and the agent process on agent hosts.
There are no documentation changes in this release.
ID |
CaseID |
Component |
Description |
RATL00029425 |
484993 |
Robot Session Recording |
Traditional Chinese
character input was not datapooled correctly in VU script |
RATL00039585 |
|
Robot |
Erratic behavior during GUI playback with Netscape scripts recorded
under IE |
RATL00044316 |
697180 |
Robot Session Recording |
Application crash when trying to record DCOM |
RATL00044731 |
|
TestManager |
HTTP VU playback hangs, especially on AIX agents |
RATL00046598 |
739275 |
Robot Session Recording |
Not getting all expected objects during DCOM recording |
RATL00047360 |
750883 |
Robot Session Recording |
No scriptable protocol from DCOM recording |
RATL00048113 |
|
Robot Session Recording |
DCOM Script generation failure if BSTR longer than 1020 characters |
RATL00048164 |
|
QualityArchitect |
VB Scenario Test Not creating/compiling RES file |
RATL00048175 |
755029 |
TestManager |
Not able to generate reports for playback involving more than one user
on AIX agent |
RATL00048304 |
752798 |
Robot Session Recording |
VU script from Oracle API session generated incorrectly |
RATL00048305 |
752798 |
Robot Session Recording |
VU script from Oracle API session didn’t correctly specify array
parameter variables |
RATL00048548 |
|
TestManager |
When a test case run causes TestManager to launch ManualTest, it
requires the user to login AGAIN to the project if that user has a password |
RATL00048587 |
765583 |
Robot Session Recording |
VU script from Oracle API session incorrectly specified parameters on
sqlexec |
RATL00048857 |
697180 |
Robot Session Recording |
DCOM script generation changes to break BSTR’s longer than 1020 characters
into pieces |
RATL00048860 |
769316 |
Robot Session Recording |
Not able to generate script from DCOM session |
RATL00049030 |
|
QualityArchitect |
COM/EJB Scenario Template can’t be found if user logs in as any person
other than the original installer of RQA |
RATL00049360 |
784841 |
Robot Session Recording |
Quotation marks needed around char datatype values in Oracle VU
scripts. |
RATL00049419 |
790567 |
TestManager |
Reports will inappropriately filter out responses with negative
response times |
RATL00049510 |
777148 |
RDSI |
Enhancement to allow SoDA listing of scripts in a suite |
RATL00049712 |
798910 |
TestManager |
Opening a Suite
implementation from the Test Case property sheet causes TestManager to crash |
RATL00049761 |
|
QualityArchitect |
Tests generated
under Japanese NT OS will not compile |
RATL00049929 |
800566 |
TestManager |
Report generation failure on runs involving multiple agents |
RATL00049994 |
793371 |
TestManager |
TestManager crashes when adding test cases to a suite |
Rational
Test/QualityArchitect/rtscenariotestgenerator.dll
Rational
Test/bin/rtaagt.exe
Rational
Test/bin/rtpsrv.exe
Rational
Test/rtprvd.exe
Rational
Test/rtprvu.exe
Rational
Test/rtasrv.exe
Rational
Test/rtssrv.exe
Rational
Test/rtvsrv.exe
Rational Test/RTManualTest.exe
Rational
Test/RTmanager.exe
Rational
Test/pthreadVSE.dll
Rational
Test/rtarpt.exe
Rational
Test/rtcomtestserver.dll
Rational
Test/rtlogio.dll
Rational
Test/rtsgen.exe
Rational
Test/rtsgenw32.dll
Rational
Test/rttestserver.dll
Rational Test/rtxcomspy.dll
Rational
Test/rtxmj.dll
Rational
Test/rtxnv.dll
Rational
Test/rtxsys.dll
Rational
Test/rtxvspy.dll
Rational
Test/shlib/web/libhttp.dll
Rational
Test/wwwapp.dll
Rational
Test/wwwcache.dll
Rational
Test/wwwcore.dll
Rational
Test/wwwdir.dll
Rational
Test/wwwdll.dll
Rational
Test/wwwfile.dll
Rational
Test/wwwhtml.dll
Rational
Test/wwwhttp.dll
Rational
Test/wwwmime.dll
Rational
Test/wwwstream.dll
Rational
Test/wwwthread.dll
Rational
Test/wwwtrans.dll
Rational
Test/wwwutils.dll
If you have questions about installing, using, or maintaining this
product, contact Rational Technical Support as follows:
Note: When you contact Rational Technical Support, please be prepared to
supply the following information:
·
Your name,
telephone number, and company name
·
Your
computer's make and model
·
Your operating
system and version number
·
Product release number and serial number
·
Your case ID number (if you are following up on a
previously-reported problem)