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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Provide customers option to maintain the Excel spreadsheet ordering of test cases on Excel Import Only shown to the idea creator and internal users

Currently only the order of test case results are ordered when importing via Excel Importer. A decision was made to prioritise performance and make the import multi-threaded. Nevertheless, customers find this confusing and it makes it harder for t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

As a Admin, I would like to add a Project Area Property to prevent the Execution Owner to be automatically assigned

Currently, when you add a Test Case to the Test Suite, if the Test Case has an owner assigned, the Test Case automatically sets the Execution Owner to the same user. There is a Project Property that does something similar, but for TCERs and TSERs:...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Formal Review/approval on a testcase need to also update testScript state

Use case : Approval trackings is configured in way like : Approval created/pending : State 0 => State 1 Approval approved : State 1 => State 3 Approval rejected : State 1 => State 4 Testcase and TestScript use same workflow Manually chang...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

As a User, I would like to be able to automatically/programatically set Attributes and Custom Categories for automated tests

Right now the automated tests need to be manually updated after the result is created, so that the Custom Categories and Attributes are correctly filled. The workaround used is to add to the tests a job that runs after a few seconds after the test...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 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...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 0 Future consideration

Provide within the Requirement Links section of Test Case additional attributes (e.g. ASIL, Security,…)

Current situation: For Test Cases additional attributes (e.g. ASIL, Security) could not be selected in "Requirement Links" section (only Summary and Link Validity are available). Required situation/Proposal: It is requested that a ETM provides a p...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

As a User, I would like to get the REST URL from the "Copy link for this page" button

Currently, the ETM application already provides the "Copy OSLC URL" button, but in order to get the REST URL you would need to construct it manually (following the documentation) OR export the artifact to PDF and get the URL at the bottom of the p...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Auto-suggest/populate the status of artifacts from other applications while linking

While creating link or deleting link between RQM/ETM and DOORS. There are use cases where when a link is created from RQM to Requirement in DOORS and if that requirement is in lock, then link appears at RQM. But in DOORS, link is not created. So, ...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Be able to move test executions retrospectively

The idea is to be able to move test executions retrospectively. For example after a standalone execution, into a specific test plan or into a specific test suite execution record. This is needed so that test suite execution report (for example)is ...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

Link ETM to timeline from EWM

Link ETM to timeline from EWM rather than forcing an independent timeline in ETM to be created
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration