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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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ETM Project Copy (include Environment Variables)

ETM Project Setup and refinement is extremely time intensive. Thus, when a project finally gets all the tune ups included it is beyond valuable to copy all of it including its Environment Variables (Part of Lab Resources) to one or more Server to ...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 0 Future consideration

Bulk TCER generation/processing per Test Plan

Large Test plans are tedious to generate TCERs especially when they have several test environments (once per test environment in bulk) Request is to create in bulk TCERs instead of manually via GUI It would be very helpful and less clicking and fa...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Lab Management 0 Future consideration

Merge Configuration Detailed Change Summary

Tracking and reporting change is required by all Enterprise systems. ETM Merge configuration is quite useful at pulling in many changes from one configuration to the next. Most common use case is during test execution while managing test failures,...
2 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

All email link need to redirect to GC contexte rather than local stream

All email send by QM (and I guess RM, but our today issue is related to QM) need consistency in link used. Exemple : After declaring a Formal review , user receive an email ("New Review")=> this first email link to a GC stream Next, user receiv...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Email Notification 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...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Test Script Steps to have a unique identifier

Test Script Steps do not have a unique identifier (they only have a step index which changes whenever steps are added/removed in a Test Script). This means that there is no consistency for identifying a specific test script step over time and ther...
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Improve usability by adding "Find & Replace" for any (sub-)string in an attribute of any/all ETM artifacts

There is no function to find and replace a string in ETM. This is a basic user need.
3 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 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...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 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 ...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration