Test suite questions
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
Accepted answer
There are multiple ways to implementation RQM based on the customer situation. I am giving you one scenario
- If you have the notion of use case, then in simple terms 1 Test Suite will satisfy all the test cases of the UC
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Positive testcase ( Happy path) - you will have at least 1
- Negative test case ( Alternate paths) - you can have multiple test cases
- The RTC project plan can be linked to RQM Project plan
- RTC usecase WI can be mapped to RQM Test Suite
- RTC Defects can be linked to TER
- In RQM you can create tasks that can be linked to project schedules
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
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
3 other answers
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
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