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Usability

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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...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enable possibilities to assign custom specific Categories and Attributes to specific roles

Current behavior: ETM does not provide the possibilities to assign custom categories or attributes to specific process roles. Requested behavior: ETM shall provide a mechanism to assign custom categories or attributes to specific process roles. Wi...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

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...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Reviews and Approvals for Keywords

Our team has noticed that there is no Review/Approval process in place for Keywords. Keywords are used throughout Test Scripts as part of a manual execution of a test. If changes can be made to a Keyword without requiring review and approval in th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Test Builder view for a Test Suite

Project Teams in our company are utilizing Test Suites to group Test Cases that are all using one Test Procedure. The step is that they have one Test Case to one Test Script and all the Test Cases are assigned to one Test Suite. When running the T...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 4 Not under 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 ...
about 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 4 Not under consideration

A mechanism for comparison/update of PA project properties must be provided

Current behavior: ETM does not provide a mechanism to compare and update PA project properties. Requested change: A corresponding mechanism shall be provided. Further observations/information: Use case: We have a generic template project, and we w...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Changes related to the PA project properties must be traceable

Current behavior: Changes related to ETM project properties are currently not visible e.g., in the project history. Requested change: It is required that all PA project property changes can be clearly identified (e.g., which, who and when) and vis...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration