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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

Crosscheck/clarify how attachments are referenced in ETM artefacts

Currently the attachment referencing is done based on the naming of the attachment and not via the combination name + ID. In case an attachment is removed from the test artefact (e.g. test case) it is not possible to identify in the history of the...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Disable button for merge configuration for selectable user groups

In merge configuration the user can accidently merge all testcases (button currently visible) instead of merge selected testcases (button currently invisible). To avoid this misuse, the button should be disabled for selectable user groups.
9 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

import test case , the test plan section will be deleted.

現行test case import包含指定test plan, 選擇要Import的Excel Sheet 若上述設定都正確 則可看到Test Plan 非default設定的section被刪除後加回 -> Test Plan項目回復原本內容 若Sheet錯誤 則會放先刪除後無法加回,而只剩下Default Section. 現行test case import包含指定test plan, 選擇要Import的Excel Sheet 若上述設定都正確 則可看到Test Plan ...
10 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 1 Not under consideration

Reviews and Approvals for Test Data

Our team has noticed that there is no Review/Approval process in place for Test Data. Test Data can be used throughout Test Scripts as data that is automatically inserted and iterated. If changes can be made to Test Data without requiring review a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Not under 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

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

need "select all items on all pages" in ETM UIs to associate exiting artifacts with parent

ETM provides a UI to associate exiting artifacts with a parent artifact. For example, from a test script there is Parent Test Cases panel with "Associate with Existing Test Case" In that UI test cases are listed in pages of 15. To select all, a us...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

Excel Importer usability improvements

The Excel Importer doesn't allow for updating of existing artifacts in an intuitive fashion. - Linking of requirements is performed from newly created Test Artifacts, unable to link from currently existing Test Artifacts - If the Importer ID is le...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

Log name of the user who select the execution machine.

Each test case that will be executed through automation needs to have the machine selected before starting the execution, and we initiate the execution from the test suite. The history of the test case results displays information about the execut...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Documentation 0 Future consideration