Test suite questions
Joe Mayo (8●4●7)
| asked Aug 06 '13, 11:33 a.m.
retagged Aug 08 '13, 4:55 p.m. by Laura W. Hinson (161●2●6) We're currently using RTC and planning to start using RQM with integration to RTC. I like that RQM can group test cases together into test suites. To make life simpler as we create a test plan, I was thinking that we would only run test cases as part of test suites. That way when we're choosing which tests to run we can just look at test suites and know that it accounts for all (at least it should) points for setup, config, execution, verification, .... Is that a reasonable approach to take? Any drawbacks? I see where an RTC task can have a "Tested by test case" link to an RQM test case, does that include test suites too?
I'm not familiar with the various states of test cases/suites, but is it possible to link RTC tasks to RQM test cases/test suites in such a way that one an RTC task is marked done/complete that it marks any planned execution records as available for testing to begin?
Thank for your help, Joe |
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Joe,
There are multiple ways to implementation RQM based on the customer situation. I am giving you one scenario 
https://jazz.net/library/article/810 https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/RqmApi#TestResRel https://jazz.net/library/article/463 https://jazz.net/library/video/319 ( this is for v2 but still good to watch) 3. Regarding the states / workflow , RQM workflow can be customized based on user need , pls find the link below http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v4r0m3/topic/com.ibm.rational.test.qm.doc/topics/r_test_artifact_states.html Joe Mayo selected this answer as the correct answer
Comments Thanks for the detailed answer and links. Looks like your definition of test suite is much broader than what I was considering a test suite to be, but seems like what you show would still be the basic idea of what I was thinking. Thanks for providing instructions and links for my other two questions. Joe |
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could you show me how to do the following as mentioned in your answer. RTC usecase WI can be mapped to RQM Test Suite Thanks |
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Hi Annie, Sorry, I haven't done that. If I look in RTC though I don't see a way to link to a test suite, just test cases and their execution records. If you want to do that, then in RTC bring up the work item that you're interested in. Go to the links tab. There you'll see a Links section and right below that is the word "Add". The default I think is "related" but there are a few options related to test cases. We're on 4.0.4 of RTC and RQM. When we moved to 4.0.4 I saw some enhanced functionality in RQM related to test suites, maybe RTC has to catch up. Joe |
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I found the following related enhancements requests pending on this topic
Test suite link to RRC Test suite with RTC As a work around , Option 1 : We can use " related" from the RTC prespective and in RQM test suite we can use "Normative and Informative Documents" section to mutual / External links. However the disadvantage is that this is not updated automatically Option 2: Link Multiple TC from RQM to the story of RTC. , then handle them with different TERs for different story in RTC |
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