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My ideas: Usability

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ETM Export to be improved

In a PDF export of a test case results the content is split across two different pages. This is especially a drawback when using tables. Please see attached picture for better understanding. One proposal to mitigate this issue is to implement in E...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Test Artifacts - OR Functionality Filtering at Test Cases / Scripts / Suites

Filtering in ETM (7.0.2 and above) at Test Cases / Suites Level cannot have OR FUNCTIONALITY. Example : Category A OR Category B Always the AND FUNCTIONALITY is possible
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

ETM Bulk Category Update

ETM Bulk Update of Global Categories has a defect which does not allow a user to update a category by amending its existing values, the GUI driven operation only overwrites the existing values with new values. This renders the bulk update operatio...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

ETM GUI Scroll Improvement to dramatically improve usability

Please can we have a horizontal scroll bar which moves with the page to enable better usability of the tool. This will improve the efficiency of the tool for the users by >50% Currently, Navigating to test case section with several columns adde...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

[HW] Provide data exchange format for testing artefacts

Hardware requests test from external test labs (accredited labs, authorized labs) which don't have access to ETM. Use case1: Contend of test plans need to be forwarde to the test lab to enable testing in line with test specification. Use Case 2: R...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

ETM: Test Suite sort/filter function based on test case [Name/attribute/feature]

Right now, in ETM there is no way to sort filter option for Test Cases from Test suite. The need is to Identify test cases that need to be removed from one or more large test suites. Because of the limitation, users more easily create a new test c...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Simple ETM Export

With Simple ETM Import capability comes the obvious simple ETM Export Capability. XL or CSV based output easily configured and enabled from the Project Scope to gain a quick external to ETM view of the entire set of Plans, Suites, Cases, Scripts, ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Test Script Steps to have a unique identifier

Test Script Steps do not have a unique identifier (they only have a step index which changes whenever steps are added/removed in a Test Script). This means that there is no consistency for identifying a specific test script step over time and ther...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Improve usability by adding "Find & Replace" for any (sub-)string in an attribute of any/all ETM artifacts

There is no function to find and replace a string in ETM. This is a basic user need.
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

No Option to Filter the values based on Link Validity

We need to filter the values of test cases based on the link validity set.We need to have a filter option setting which filters the value bases on the Validity summary values Attached screenshot for Reference
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 2 Future consideration