Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Hosting Robot/Applications on a Terminal Server

Robot supports the following Terminal Server environments:
  • Citrix MetaFrame (WIN2K)/Citrix MetaFrame client
  • Microsoft Terminal Server (WIN2K)/Microsoft Terminal Server client
  • Windows 2000 Server
  • Windows Terminal Server (Windows NT4)
The server hosts both the application under test and Robot. Robot runs on the client as a terminal server session. Rational Robot supports GUI script recording and playback on the server or from the client. The TestManager Log Viewer edition can be run from the server or from the client.

Starting Robot and Its Components

Before you start using Robot, you need to have:
  1. Rational Robot installed.
  2. A Rational project.

Logging On

When you log onto Robot or one of its components, you provide your user ID and password, which are assigned by your administrator. You also specify the project to log onto.


To log on:

  • From Start > Programs > Rational product name, start Rational Robot or one of its components to open the Rational Login dialog box.



Opening Other Rational Products and Components

Once you are logged onto a Robot component, you can start other products and components from either:




Some components also start automatically when you perform certain functions in another component.