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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Allow bulk category updates even if some related subcategories remain unassigned

Hello, In ETM (Engineering Test Management), when working with hierarchical category and subcategories structures, we sometimes want to apply a bulk update of the main category to a group of artifacts. However, when trying to do this, ETM blocks t...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Configure options customization for ETM Test Cases display.

We’d like to propose an improvement to the Test Case List under the menu path "Constructions" → "Browse" → "Test Case". Specifically, we suggest including additional columns—such as "Test Case Design" and "Expected Results"—from the Test Case "Sec...
about 1 month ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Reporting 0 Future consideration

ETM is hardcoded OOB towards software testing. Things like environments are out of date and don't have any relevance to non software testing.

ETM can be used for a wide range of projects which are NOT software focussed however many of the fields are VERY tightly tied to software testing. Things like environments which still reference windows XP! . These are difficult to remove and it is...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Efficient removal of a large amount of Test Cases from a Test Suite is needed.

Not possible to do bulk removal of test cases from test suite in the test case list. If we do this in a test suite directly, the test case list within test suite do not have categories and attributes etc. to do the filter.
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Unassigned 0 Future consideration

Possibility of defining “Validated by” link constraints between ERM and ETM

See the screenshot "2024-07-09 12_34_01-Window.png". The QM Test Case 364 validate the RM artifacts 45130, 43907, 43390 and 43391 45130 is a "Heading" artifact 43907 is an "Information" artifact 43390 and 43391 are "Requirement" artifacts In our i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add more link type in test script step

Today, in our company, more and more projects are using ETM. Some project are migrating from Excel or DOORS to ETM in order to manage the traceability with the requirements. However, sometimes the requirements change are only provided by a Change ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

A simplified user interface (app version) of ELM ETM to easily run tests on site and capture the results using a mobile phone.

Many of our engineers complete tests on site (Rail, Infrastructure, National Highways), some locations are underground or have limited mobile network coverage. A mobile app with a simplified user interface would enable and encourage our engineers ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 1 Future consideration

Display of multivalued categories in ETM

When a multi-valued category type field is grouped in the scenario list display, the test scenario must be present in each group. Example: T1 (cat1, cat2); T2 (cat1, cat3) The grouped display by category must be: Cat1 --> (T1, T2); Cat2 (T1); C...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enhance version exploration mechanism

On artefacts with a lot of versions, scrolling through the entire tree of versions is terrible. The scrolling window is very small and I need to scroll a little bit, then drag the gray area box until it reaches a proper location and then repeat. T...
about 2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Complete the possibility of importing customAttributes of type LINK correctly

In our company, we intended to use the ETM Excel Importer to import mass data of Test Case Results from Excel. We have enhanced our data model of the Test Case Result with custom attributes of type LINK. The custom attribute LINK is a tuple, consi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration