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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Support Decimal Attributes in ETM

Compared with EWM, ETM has a very limited list of attribute types available for creating custom attributes. We would like these to be equivalent, but most specifically would like the ability to track decimal values in a TCER as a custom attribute.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

As a user I would like to be able to Merge Streams that has locked artifacts by being prompted to override the lock

If you try to merge a Stream that has locked artifacts, the merge will fail because the locked items cannot be updated. The solution to that is to unlock the artifact and redo the merge. But if you have several different artifacts that are locked,...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

find/replace for ETM test artifact titles

We have been able to use the ETM Excel Import Utility to change the title of test cases from a csv list view export of test cases. That requires minimal work in a config file to ensure all category, attribute values are defined, test script links ...
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enable change sets in ETM to group changes as in DOORS

It would be very useful to replicate the DNG functionality of change sets in the ETM application in order to: - Allow the association of several changes and a unique deliver of them. - Associate the change set to a Change Request work item allocat...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Defect id should be a mandatory input for failed test case in RQM

Currently there is no request to provide the defect id/problem work item id to one test case in RQM that ends with Failed result. It should be implemented as one improvement for failed test case. Defect id or problem WI need to become a mandatory ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Documentation 0 Future consideration

Ability to add Test cases from different Component / Project to a single Test Plan

Here idea is to re-use the Test cases instead of copying them to each component / Project. Some Common Test cases that are related to "Brakes and tail lamps" should be part of one Test Plan ; Note: Brakes and Tail Lamps are two different project a...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management 0 Future consideration

Test Suite Execution Order into Test Plan

The current random behavior while adding the existing Test Suite(s) with correspondent Test Case(s) into a Test Plan seems to not be the desired one.Unfortunately, the Execution Order inside of a Test Suite should be taken into consideration while...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

Update Pre-Condition and Follow up Actions in ETM to allow Auto Archiving of Rejected Reviews

Quality Teams have been implementing the usage of Preconditions and Follow Up actions and have been using the "Archive approval groups after a state group transition" Follow-up action. This Follow Up action does archive "Rejected" approval groups,...
about 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to restrict the number of concurrent test script execution by command-line test script type.

We have 1000+ test suites that are map one to on to 1000+ test cases that all call a set of common command-line test scripts. Test suites are used to execute the test scripts in a fixed order. All of these test scripts can execute on all 80+ adapt...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

Enable possibilities to assign custom specific Categories and Attributes to specific roles

Current behavior: ETM does not provide the possibilities to assign custom categories or attributes to specific process roles. Requested behavior: ETM shall provide a mechanism to assign custom categories or attributes to specific process roles. Wi...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration