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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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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

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

RQM Global review of test plan

Not possible to create a global review with the top level artifact (Test plan or test suite) with all the artifacts inside.
over 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Unassigned 2 Not under consideration

Deleted test cases are not tracked in a test plan

Current behavior: In case a test case gets deleted and is associated within a test plan no information will be shown in the test plan that a test case was deleted (even the test plan history does not include the information that a test case was de...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 1 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

Enable correct handling of Architecture Link Validity in ETM

The link validity of links between architecture and test cases is not shown and not considered in calculation of validity summary. Tester needs to be able to react on architecture change. The validity summary should also take into account the vali...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to set an execution variable value using a requirements attribute value

Many times authors and designers of requirement want the ability to define variable values as attributes on the requirements, which will later be leveraged by the test engineers testing the requirement. For example, many times the designers will d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 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

The reportable (or OSLC) REST API shall provide a complete list of attachments of a test artifact

I can add an attachment either a) by direct upload of a file in the attachment section b) of by the insert attachment function within a rich text section of a test artifact. Both attachments are listed in the attachment section, in a form a) 300...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future 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...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration