IBM® Rational® Robot® supports testing applications built in a wide range of environments and languages, including HTML and DHTML; Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Visual Basic and Visual C++ development systems; Java; Oracle Developer/2000; PeopleSoft; and Sybase PowerBuilder. IBM Rational Robot provides full, native support for all .NET controls, including VB.NET, Microsoft Visual C#, Visual J# and Managed C++ development tools. With IBM® Rational® Robot®, you can:-

• Improve the scope and frequency of regression testing
• Plan, track and execute regression testing through IBM® Rational® TestManager®
• Advance to functional testing using the same tool
• Extend test scripts to further improve test coverage and depth

This tool provides support for the activities of the following team members: Test Analyst, Test Designer and Tester.

To gain the full benefits from this tool, users need to have the following skills:-

• Testing

Training for this tool can be found in the following courses:-

• Essentials of Functional Testing with Rational Robot

The IBM Rational Robot is designed to simplify testing by:-

• Automating functional and performance testing
• Performing functional testing from within your engineering team?s development environment
• Automating functional, distributed functional and regression tests for applications constructed with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET WinForms and WebForms and simplifies configuration testing of .NET applications
• Provides test cases for menus, lists, alphanumeric characters, bitmaps and many more objects, and tests custom controls and objects under varying conditions
• Helping to ensure testing depth by testing the hundreds of properties of an application?s component objects, such as Microsoft ActiveX Controls, OLE Control Extensions (OCXs), Java applets and many others