IBM Rational Test RealTime V8.3.1 has been made generally available and contains new features as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects.
Table of Contents
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The Change history section provides an overview on what is new in this release with a description of any new functions or enhancements when applicable.
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The How critical is this fix section provides information related to the impact of this release to allow you to assess how your environment may be affected.
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The Prerequisites section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release.
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The Download package section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment.
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The Installation instructions section provides the installation instructions necessary to apply this release into your environment.
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The Known side effects section contains a link to the known problems (open defects) identified at the time of this release.
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Supporting Documentation
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Click to review the detailed system requirements information for a complete list of hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software, with component-level details and operating system restrictions.
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The information center provides you with user assistance for the product. You can view, browse, and search online information related to the product. You can also visit the IBM Product information page to browse for additional information centers.
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Click to review a complete list of the defects (APARs) resolved in this release including a list of resolved defects for the entire version family.
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For installation instructions:
For more information about the installation of the product, see installation in the IBM Product documentation. |
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Fix Central provides fixes and updates for your system's software, hardware, and operating system.
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Impact Assessment
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This is a service release. It contains new features as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects.
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Definitions
Regression: An error in the Maintenance Delivery Vehicle (MDV) that produces incorrect or unexpected behavior causing a supported feature to stop functioning as designed.
This includes:
- Coding errors that cause a regression
- Documentation or packaging problems that cause a regression
- Errors reported in a new function delivered in a MDV that cause a regression
Incomplete: An error in the MDV has not regressed, but does not work as designed.
This includes:
- Fixed APARs which did not solve the original problem but did not break anything new
- APARs reporting documentation errors, such as readme errors, that cause problems applying an MDV but do not lead to a regression
Notes:
- Regression and incomplete APARs are considered fix-in-error or MDV-in-error
- Definitions above apply only to valid APARs that result in product fixes (APARs returned as working-as-designed are not assessed for being fix-in-error)
- Issues in major releases due to new functionality do not apply in this definition
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There are no known issues to report.
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Click the Fix List link in the table of contents above to review a list of the problems solved in this release.
Review the following list of known issues and open defects:
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| Runtime Analysis viewers (Rational Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE) |
TESTRT-1436
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In Eclipse, in the Test Case editor, the red cross on Stub Behavior is not refreshed after execution.
Workaround: Select another result to display, then re-select the original one.
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| Component Testing for C++ (Legacy) |
TESTRT-1303 |
The Studio C++ wizard does not generate stub and OTD properly when the method to stub is declared into a class which is part of a template.
Workaround: Change the .stb and .otd manually once generated by the wizard.
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| TDP RUNTIME |
TESTRT-1368 |
The TDP cvisual10 and cvisual10_64 do not detect FIU properly due to removed system methods.
Workaround: Set Library/Heap Management Configuration/FIU detection to RTRT_NONE.
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| Component Testing for C (Legacy) |
PI81654 |
Attolcc4 is looping into the correlation loop trying to detect the possible macros definition.
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| Eclipse IDE |
TESTRT-2080 |
Control Coupling and Worst Stack reports are not available on Test Suite results. |
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TESTRT-2466 |
On large trace file, there is no way to stop the loading. |
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TESTRT-2132 |
Depending on the compiler definition, plain char may be signed or unsigned. So, any rule related to unsigned the type should be ignored when underlying type is a plain char. |
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TESTRT-2275 |
In chapter 10, 'essential type' is calculated for all expression nodes. Enums have a specific behavior as they can be seen either as true enum, or as signed (in case of anonymous enums). Result may be erroneous on enum constants. |
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TESTRT-1897 |
Tiny toolbar icons for Coverage and Performance reports. |
| Visual Test |
PH29453 |
Testing a C file that requires header (.h) files, when linking these files, we lost the visibility of the data types (required for enumerated types and stubs that return an enumerated type). What would happen if, when adding such a stub is that the stub creation would not be completed.
Workaround: Copy these header files rather than linking them.
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What's new
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Review the Release notes for a complete list of new features and enhancements.
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