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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Test Result shall document a snapshot of the complete content of the related test artifacts (e.g., Test Case, Test Script,..) when it was executed

Current situation:In a Test Result only a subset of the content visible in Test Case is documented (e.g. Content of field "Test Case Design" of Test Case won't be visible in a Test Result) The Test Result artifact provide a reference to the used T...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow ETM (and potentially EWM) to reference DNG Terms so projects (via a GC) can have a single repository of terms/acronyms etc

Currently projects invest in creating DOORS Next collections of terms, acronyms and reference documents (all DOORS Next glossary terms). The functionality to type and use control Space to lookup already defined terms is incredibly useful with DOOR...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Blocks dependency between test cases

Especially on different abstract levels of testing it is currently a typical use case at some of our teams that there is a dependency between the test cases. E.g. only if specific test cases on component level have been passed it makes sense to ex...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

ETM - Script template setting Change Column display left to right

When working in Test script editor, default display of left to right is not an available option within the template. Setting can only be changed on each script and it is not set as default. This adds additional formatting required for every test s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

XML Import/Export permission on Team Area Level

Team area is an unique and extremely useful concept use in ETM. Project Admins are able to restrict data visibility using the roles and permissions in Team Areas because for Team area level permissions.Team area level permissions are almost same a...
12 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 0 Future consideration

Additional Exit Codes for ETM Command Line Adapter

The ETM CLA allows the definition of unlimited exit codes, however, this flexibility is nearly useless without a decoder on the ETM end to allow the reading of these symbols and interpreting the error code back to the user in a meaningful way that...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

Defects filtering into Test Case Execution Records

Hello, The main goal of the idea is to help our colleagues to filter easily for the defects that have been linked or not to the TCER (which contains valid/invalid Test Result(s)). Usage scenario: from release to release, it's quite hard to find wh...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

Provide a project property to disallow TCER generation and removal for retired test cases

Retired test cases should not be used for testing, so TCER operations should be prohibitable.
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 0 Future consideration

ETM Excel Importer allow DNG Links to propagate from Test Script to Test Case

We would like the ETM Excel Importer to support DNG requirements links propagating from the Test Script to the Test Case. If a team creates a Test Script manually in ETM and links those steps to a requirement in DNG, the result is that the link pr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration