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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

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

Ability to duplicate the test artifacts when duplicating the test plan

Problem: When we duplicate the test plan, currently it has the option to link to the original artifacts that the original test plan links to. We are looking for an option to duplicate the test artifacts as well, when the test plan is duplicated. W...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 2 Not under consideration

Ability to distinguish and compare the changes in the version of the test plan

Problem Statement: Ability to distinguish and compare the changes in the version of the test plan. Ability to add Tags/Comments to these versions Problem: The version in the test plan (any test artifact) is captured whenever a test plan is saved. ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 2 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration

Selective clear suspect Links to Requirements

During Requirements Reconcile, clearing a suspect link to a changed requirement will clear All suspictions form ALL testcases to that requirement. During reconcile, when several RQM artifacts are affected by the suspiciton, it should be possible t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Unassigned 1 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 0 Future consideration

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.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 1 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...
6 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...
6 months ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Test Execution 0 Future consideration