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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Option to schedule automatic purge (permanent deletion) of archived artifacts in RQM project areas.

Currently there is no direct option in RQM to schedule archiving of assets. Infact any deleted test asset in RQM is automatically in an archived state since it is never removed from the dB unless the dB is wiped out. This means we need to compromi...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Unassigned 6 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to disallow the execution of a TCER with specific iterations until its test case is approved

If you enable a precondition with an iteration (using "When" and that iteration is set as the current project iteration, the precondition will apply to every artifact, regardless of "attributes" of that artifact. For example - a precondition on te...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

Name inconsistencies between RQM/ETM and Report Builder

There are a lot of Name inconsistencies between RQM/ETM and Report Builder
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Show History for ETM Test Data

Our team needs at a minimum to have the ability to view changes made to the "Test Data" artifact and who made those changes for audit purposes.
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Add Kerberos support to IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) Execution Tool

IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) Execution Tool does not currently have Kerberos support. In environments that Kerberos is used, the Execution Tool is not supported. Customers would like to get Kerberos added as the authentication method in ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 1 Future consideration

Disallow Creation of TCER without Test Script

IBM Rational Quality Manager should not allow user to create Test Case Execution Record (TCER) if there is no Test Script associated to Test Case.
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the 'Pending Approval' pre-condition in RQM similar to 'Required Approval' pre-condition

Pending approval restrict the transition in all states. In normal use case, you want to add the approvals and move it to say ‘review' state. With this pre condition, you can't do that. You have to do transition first, save, then, add approvals, th...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Unassigned 2 Not under consideration

RQM to warn user that Windows is Locked prior to running test case

RQM to provide a warning to the user prior to running the test case if the windows is lock at the target machine.
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Not under consideration

RQM: deleting categories from trash will not free up slots for new categories

When permanently deleting a category from the trash, this will not free up slots for new categories (max 50 ... adjustable to 100). As an admin I would expect- at least a warning- or allow disabling the deletion of the trash for categories (may be...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Timely planning of RQM-TC

It is possible to define project timelines and to link some TCs, Tests suites or Tests plans to iterations defined in the scope of these projects timelines. It is also possible to give an estimation of the tests durations during the Test Case defi...
about 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Unassigned 2 Not under consideration