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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Add "Test Suite" column in "Test Case Result" view

In Automotive Testing projects , teams normally reuse the old results with in a Milestone SOP (Start of production) phase to have a good Test coverage for all the requirements where full Testing is not possible due to stringent timelines . Hence i...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 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

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

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

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

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

copy of Multiple test script at a time

Hello, we see it is difficult to copy one test step from a test script to another test script and also going through same tab. So our proposal is to have drop and drag kind of thing to copy one test steps to another and also to copy multiple test ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration