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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Selective clear suspect Links to Requirements

During Requirements Reconcile, clearing a suspect link to a changed requirement will clear All suspictions form ALL testcases to that requirement. During reconcile, when several RQM artifacts are affected by the suspiciton, it should be possible t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Unassigned 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...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Defect id should be a mandatory input for failed test case in RQM

Currently there is no request to provide the defect id/problem work item id to one test case in RQM that ends with Failed result. It should be implemented as one improvement for failed test case. Defect id or problem WI need to become a mandatory ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Documentation 0 Future consideration

find/replace for ETM test artifact titles

We have been able to use the ETM Excel Import Utility to change the title of test cases from a csv list view export of test cases. That requires minimal work in a config file to ensure all category, attribute values are defined, test script links ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 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

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

Excel Importer usability improvements

The Excel Importer doesn't allow for updating of existing artifacts in an intuitive fashion. - Linking of requirements is performed from newly created Test Artifacts, unable to link from currently existing Test Artifacts - If the Importer ID is le...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Log name of the user who select the execution machine.

Each test case that will be executed through automation needs to have the machine selected before starting the execution, and we initiate the execution from the test suite. The history of the test case results displays information about the execut...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Documentation 0 Future consideration

Lock or freeze the ETM Local Stream

Currently, we are encountering an issue where the ETM stream is unintentionally changed or modified by users, leading to incorrect information being delivered. We may not be aware of such modifications. To prevent data corruption caused by users, ...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

RQM process/project template inheritance

RQM process inheritance issue summarized below which were discussed with Christophe Telep (RQM Product Manager): 1. For an enterprise client like MBDA, it is not feasible or scalable to manually run combinations of various copy utilities (RQM API,...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 2 Not under consideration