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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Provide customers option to maintain the Excel spreadsheet ordering of test cases on Excel Import Only shown to the idea creator and internal users

Currently only the order of test case results are ordered when importing via Excel Importer. A decision was made to prioritise performance and make the import multi-threaded. Nevertheless, customers find this confusing and it makes it harder for t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Implement the Summary's Description filter on the "Browse > Test Cases" view of a QM project

Today, on the project's "Browse > Test Cases" view, we can add the "Description" column, which correspond to the Summary's Description field. We cannot filter this field by keyword. As seen in the case TS009260451, the following tools do not an...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 4 Future consideration

Linking Test Script Step Results to Requirement using Excel Importer Utility

In 7.0.3 it is now possible to link test script step and requirement. 'TestScript that link steps with existing requirements 002' from sample folder for test script step and requirement linking.(v7.0.3) Usually the links from test script step Resu...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

ETM Excel Importer allow DNG Links to propagate from Test Script to Test Case

We would like the ETM Excel Importer to support DNG requirements links propagating from the Test Script to the Test Case. If a team creates a Test Script manually in ETM and links those steps to a requirement in DNG, the result is that the link pr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Enable change sets in ETM to group changes as in DOORS

It would be very useful to replicate the DNG functionality of change sets in the ETM application in order to: - Allow the association of several changes and a unique deliver of them. - Associate the change set to a Change Request work item allocat...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Test Script Traceability with Test Case in approved state

Use Case description : - Add custom workflow with three state in RQM project (Draft, In Review, Approved) - Create a test case (TC1) and set the state to “Approved” (The test case has passed all the technical reviews and can be used. It should not...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support Decimal Attributes in ETM

Compared with EWM, ETM has a very limited list of attribute types available for creating custom attributes. We would like these to be equivalent, but most specifically would like the ability to track decimal values in a TCER as a custom attribute.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Update Pre-Condition and Follow up Actions in ETM to allow Auto Archiving of Rejected Reviews

Quality Teams have been implementing the usage of Preconditions and Follow Up actions and have been using the "Archive approval groups after a state group transition" Follow-up action. This Follow Up action does archive "Rejected" approval groups,...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Show correct "Tested By" user in Test Case Result when running an Automated Test Case

When running an automated Test Case (such as UFT, for example), the "Tested By" section that exists in the Test Case Result will show the user who is registered in the Adapter, instead of the user who is running the test. This information is misle...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration