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Enable possibilities to assign Categories and Attributes to specific item sections

Current behavior: ETM does not provide the possibilities to assign custom categories or attributes to specific sections. E.g. for the item Test Case all Categories and Attributes are combined in the Summary section as a flat list. Requested behavi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to edit/delete Formal Review comments post save.

Once a reviewer has added a comment to a formal review there are not permissions available to allow the owner or admin to edit/delete comments. Suggest adding a permission for a role to be able to edit/delete comments in the formal review. Most li...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Update the Test Team section so that it can record the test team of the effort for historical purposes; make use of the current functionality and more

The Test Team section can be extremely useful. It pulls in the team members currently loaded within a QM Test Team so that everyone involved in testing is listed within the plan. This is really great functionality. However, when the members of th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Transfer changes of artifacts performed in a process conform way (i.e., not violating any preconditions) to a child stream.

Description: Currently, the Preconditions & Follow-up Actions (especially: “Disallow Saving of Test Cases with State Approved or Retired”) prevents to transfer changes of an artifact from a parent to a child stream, although the changes where ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Inherit the categories to the child test artifacts or sub artifacts in Test management

in the ETM tool, as per the IBM meta model Test case must have Test script. We have brought in lot of categories which are global in nature and it is really cumber some when i create Test script from the Testcase as these values which are filled a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Improve grouping of items when groups are larger than one page

When I group items and a group of items goes over several pages, the contained items are hidden, when the group is collapsed. However, the following groups are not pushed up, so there are now several blank pages under the collapsed group heading b...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Include All Tests in a Single Review

Enhance test review functionality to encapsulate a baseline/snapshot of all of the tests (test cases and scripts) in a single review, with inline comments.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Crosscheck/clarify how attachments are referenced in ETM artefacts

Currently the attachment referencing is done based on the naming of the attachment and not via the combination name + ID. In case an attachment is removed from the test artefact (e.g. test case) it is not possible to identify in the history of the...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

need "select all items on all pages" in ETM UIs to associate exiting artifacts with parent

ETM provides a UI to associate exiting artifacts with a parent artifact. For example, from a test script there is Parent Test Cases panel with "Associate with Existing Test Case" In that UI test cases are listed in pages of 15. To select all, a us...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Multiple Active Iterations in one ETM Project

Our teams need the ability to be able to enforce multiple Iterations that are applied to timelines at the same time within Engineering Test Management (ETM or RQM). The need is that there are team members who need to work in a “development phase” ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration