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IBM Engineering - Test Management

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Test cases naming in ETM limit of characters

Test cases naming in ETM it’s limited to only 250 characters. This limit shall be increased. This is a major issue for the testing tools which create names larger than 250 characters, based on the parameters used in the test case definition.
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 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

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

RQM process/project template inheritance

RQM process inheritance issue summarized below which were discussed with Christophe Telep (RQM Product Manager): 1. For an enterprise client like MBDA, it is not feasible or scalable to manually run combinations of various copy utilities (RQM API,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 2 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 0 Future consideration

ETM XL Import Server-side pre-checks

When users inadvertently make mistakes in excel importer configuration file or data, this results in creation of duplicate attributes and enumeration values in target ETM component type system. There are no warnings or alerts that type system is g...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Excel & Word Import 0 Future consideration

ETM: Improvements for Test Case Reconcile run duration

When users attempt to invoke Reconcile from Test plan to create/update test cases based on requirement specifications(modules), the operations runs for long amount of time e.g. takes about 2.5 hours to reconcile a module containing 5000 requiremen...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

When creating a test case from a requirement, check if the requirement has a work item link and provide an option to automatically link the test case to the work item

Under the Requirement Collection Links section of a test plan there is an option to generate a test case from a requirement and via the Reconcile Requirements wizard. When generating a test case from a requirement the user should be prompted to op...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Provide option in "Duplicate" feature to not add "Copy of" in front of artifacts copied to the target that have the same name as existing artifacts

We want to duplicate test suites to another project area, such that the test suite and none of the included artifacts are prefixed with "Copy of" when the name is not unique.We are spending a lot of time manually removing the prefix. Could you add...
5 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration