Difference between Rational Functional Tester & Rational Robot:

Rational Functional Tester is an automated functional testing and regression testing tool.
Provides testers with automated testing capabilities for functional testing, regression testing, GUI testing and data-driven testing.

- Enables testers to automate tests resilient to frequent application user interface changes with ScriptAssure™ technology
- Validates dynamic data with multiple wizards, verification points and support for regular expression patterns
- Automated wizard for data-driven testing increases test coverage by reusing individual tests with multiple sets of test data
- Allows the use of keywords to power portions of manual tests with automated testing
- Offers testers a choice of scripting language for test authoring and customization: Java in Eclipse® or Microsoft® Visual Basic .NET® in Visual Studio.NET
- Supports custom controls through proxy SDK (Java/.Net)
- Includes out of the box support for Web-based, .Net, Java, terminal emulator based applications such as 3270 (zSeries™) and 5250 (iSeries™), PowerBuilder, AJAX, Adobe Flex, Dojo Toolkit, Siebel, and SAP® applications
- Operating systems supported: Linux, Windows


Rational Robot is a test automation tool for functional testing of client/server applications.
Test automation tool for QA teams for testing client/server applications. Enables defect detection, includes test cases and test management, supports multiple UI technologies.

- Provides a general-purpose test automation tool for QA teams for functional testing of client/server applications
- Lowers learning curve for testers discovering the value of test automation processes
* Enables test-automation engineers to detect defects by extending test scripts and to define test cases
- Provides test cases for common objects and specialized test cases to development environment objects
- Includes built-in test management, integrates with IBM Rational Unified Process tools
- Aids in defect tracking, change management and requirements traceability
- Supports multiple UI technologies
- Operating systems supported: Windows

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[quote=dukekalra;30488]Difference between Rational Functional Tester & Rational Robot:

Rational Functional Tester is an automated functional testing and regression testing tool.
Provides testers with automated testing capabilities for functional testing, regression testing, GUI testing and data-driven testing.

- Enables testers to automate tests resilient to frequent application user interface changes with ScriptAssure™ technology
- Validates dynamic data with multiple wizards, verification points and support for regular expression patterns
- Automated wizard for data-driven testing increases test coverage by reusing individual tests with multiple sets of test data
- Allows the use of keywords to power portions of manual tests with automated testing
- Offers testers a choice of scripting language for test authoring and customization: Java in Eclipse® or Microsoft® Visual Basic .NET® in Visual Studio.NET
- Supports custom controls through proxy SDK (Java/.Net)
- Includes out of the box support for Web-based, .Net, Java, terminal emulator based applications such as 3270 (zSeries™) and 5250 (iSeries™), PowerBuilder, AJAX, Adobe Flex, Dojo Toolkit, Siebel, and SAP® applications
- Operating systems supported: Linux, Windows


Rational Robot is a test automation tool for functional testing of client/server applications.
Test automation tool for QA teams for testing client/server applications. Enables defect detection, includes test cases and test management, supports multiple UI technologies.

- Provides a general-purpose test automation tool for QA teams for functional testing of client/server applications
- Lowers learning curve for testers discovering the value of test automation processes
* Enables test-automation engineers to detect defects by extending test scripts and to define test cases
- Provides test cases for common objects and specialized test cases to development environment objects
- Includes built-in test management, integrates with IBM Rational Unified Process tools
- Aids in defect tracking, change management and requirements traceability
- Supports multiple UI technologies
- Operating systems supported: Windows

Hi,
Your all points are good but these two points are more simpler to understand.

1.Rational functional tester has only 2 verification points whereas the Rational Robot has 13 verification points.

2.In Rational functional tester scripting is done through simple Java programming where as in Rational robot scripting is done using SQA BAsic language

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