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Provide within the Requirement Links section of Test Case additional attributes (e.g. ASIL, Security,…)

Current situation: For Test Cases additional attributes (e.g. ASIL, Security) could not be selected in "Requirement Links" section (only Summary and Link Validity are available). Required situation/Proposal: It is requested that a ETM provides a p...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Allow ETM (and potentially EWM) to reference DNG Terms so projects (via a GC) can have a single repository of terms/acronyms etc

Currently projects invest in creating DOORS Next collections of terms, acronyms and reference documents (all DOORS Next glossary terms). The functionality to type and use control Space to lookup already defined terms is incredibly useful with DOOR...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Auto-suggest/populate the status of artifacts from other applications while linking

While creating link or deleting link between RQM/ETM and DOORS. There are use cases where when a link is created from RQM to Requirement in DOORS and if that requirement is in lock, then link appears at RQM. But in DOORS, link is not created. So, ...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

When creating a test case from a requirement, check if the requirement has a work item link and provide an option to automatically link the test case to the work item

Under the Requirement Collection Links section of a test plan there is an option to generate a test case from a requirement and via the Reconcile Requirements wizard. When generating a test case from a requirement the user should be prompted to op...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Add immutable requirement links to the test case results that exist at time of execution

Any requirement linked to the test case or the test script would be automatically added to the "Requirement Links" section on the test case results, when the result is created. When creating a test case result, QM would check if requirements are l...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

ETM URL Utility to support kerberos authentication

Government Agencies have mandated HSPD12 for singleauthentication for all software products. If the ETM URL Utility does not support kerberos then we can no longer use it in our environment.
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Enable correct handling of Architecture Link Validity in ETM

The link validity of links between architecture and test cases is not shown and not considered in calculation of validity summary. Tester needs to be able to react on architecture change. The validity summary should also take into account the vali...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to set an execution variable value using a requirements attribute value

Many times authors and designers of requirement want the ability to define variable values as attributes on the requirements, which will later be leveraged by the test engineers testing the requirement. For example, many times the designers will d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

The reportable (or OSLC) REST API shall provide a complete list of attachments of a test artifact

I can add an attachment either a) by direct upload of a file in the attachment section b) of by the insert attachment function within a rich text section of a test artifact. Both attachments are listed in the attachment section, in a form a) 300...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Add an automatic version attribute which increments with the artifact workflow

We would like to have a new "Version" attribute in test artifacts which increments itself automatically with the workflow. For instance, each time a test artifact status is changed from "Approved" back to "Draft" with the action "Reopen", the vers...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 1 Future consideration