Welcome to our post about IBM Rational Quality Manager, v2.0 training classes!
IBM Rational Learning offers training in different formats: traditional classroom training (instructor-led training or ILT), virtual classroom training (instructor-led online training or ILO), and self-paced web-based training (WBT). ILO and WBT do not require travel.

The Rational Quality Manager, v1.0 curriculum includes the following courses:
Principles of Test Management with IBM Rational Quality Manager, 2 hours, WBT, this introductory course is designed to familiarize project management, test management, and business professionals with the basics of the test management solution with IBM Rational Quality Manager.
Essentials of Manual Testing with IBM Rational Quality Manager, 1 day, ILT and ILO, this course helps you to accelerate creation of manual tests, streamline manual test execution, and monitor manual test results.
Essentials of Test Management with IBM Rational Quality Manager, 1 day, ILT and ILO, this introductory course is designed to familiarize project management, test management, and business professionals with the basics of the test management solution with IBM Rational Quality Manager.

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Course Title: Essentials of Test Management with IBM Rational Quality Manager V2.0
Previous Version Course Code and Description: RT270
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_description&courseCode=RT270

Course Code: TBD Course Duration: 1 Day Course Approach: 01 Classroom Skill Level: 1 Basic

What's New in Version 2 Training Class
The second version of the Essentials of Test Management with IBM Rational Quality Manager course will include updated screen images to reflect changes in the user interface. Version two will also address:
- Duplicate Defect Detection
- Risk Based Testing
- Measured Capability Improvement Framework

Audience

The target audience is project managers, test managers, quality managers, business analysts, and test leads who use IBM Rational Quality Manager. These clients are seeking a collaborative and customizable solution for test planning, workflow control, tracking, and metrics reporting that is capable of quantifying how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.

The secondary audience is testers who need to understand project planning for test efforts and how Rational Quality Manager facilitates use of automated and manual tests.

Course Description

This introductory course is designed to familiarize project management, test management, and business professionals with the basics of the test management solution with IBM Rational Quality Manager. This course demonstrates the power of test management that is integrated with requirements, defect tracking, and test execution capabilities. You will learn how Rational Quality Manager provides a collaborative and customizable solution for test planning and workflow control. When this solution is combined with the ready-to-use tracking and metrics reporting, you can quantify how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives. Hands-on exercises are used to reinforce learning.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, you should be able to:
Synchronize with business objectives and determine fitness for use
Incrementally adopt a Practice from the Measured Capability Improvement Framework (new in V2.0)
Utilize collaborative information and status sharing to facilitate software delivery
Use adaptive and customizable test plan management in a team environment
Automate to accelerate test creation and execution
Run on-demand reports for instant project status

Topics Covered

Understand and use the Dashboard with various roles in Rational Quality Manager
Write, review, and approve a test plan with Rational Quality Manager
Capture risk attributes, prioritize risk, and optimize testing based on risk (new in V2.0)
Show requirements traceability and coverage to the test plan in Rational Quality Manager
Use out-of-the box defect capabilities to include duplicate defect detection (new in V2.0)
Add test cases and test suites to a test plan
Use IBM Rational Functional Tester with Rational Quality Manager
Understand workflow control and use work items in Rational Quality Manager
Create and execute a test suite
Run planning and execution status reports
Use reports that communicate return on investment with metrics from the Measured Capability Improvement Framework (new in V2.0)

Course Title: Essentials of Manual Testing with IBM Rational Quality Manager V2.0
Previous Version Course Code and Description: RT280
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_description&courseCode=RT280

Course Code: TBD Course Duration: 1 Day Course Approach: 01 Classroom Skill Level: 1 Basic

What's New in Version 2 Training Class

The second version of the Essentials of Manual Testing with IBM Rational Quality Manager course will include updated screen images to reflect changes in the user interface. Version two will also address:
- Keywords: Reusing test scripts to reduce test maintenance
- Keywords: Planning and designing for modulearity and reuse
- Keywords: Using and updating keywords
- Test script authoring editor: Expected Results column in test script
- Test execution view: Actual Results column during test execution

Audience

The target audience is Rational Quality Manager users who create and execute manual tests. These testers are familiar with manual testing. The audience might also include quality assurance practitioners, managers, or team leaders who are responsible for interacting with testers or who need to ensure that the tools are being implemented fully and appropriately.

Course Description

This introductory course is designed to familiarize testing professionals with the basics of IBM Rational Quality Manager V1.0. The Rational Quality Manager application assists in creating scripts for manual testing. The course helps you to accelerate creation of manual tests, streamline manual test execution, and monitor manual test results. Additionally, you will learn how to use external test data with test scripts. Hands-on instruction and exercises are provided for those who want to explore the power of using Rational Quality Manager. The focus is on the practical application of Rational Quality Manager to resolve common manual testing challenges.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Identify the benefits of using IBM Rational Quality Manager
- Create a manual test script
- Modify a manual test script
- Execute a manual test
- Examine test results
- Create a data-driven test script

Topics Covered
- Rational Quality Manager and the manual testing process
- Creating test scripts
- Executing tests and reporting test results
- Using test data

Course Title: Principles of Test Management with IBM Rational Quality Manager V2.0

Previous Version Course Code and Description: RT220
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=course_description&courseCode=RT220

Course Code: TBD Course Duration: 2 hours Course Approach: Web based Skill Level: 1 Basic

What's New in Version 2 Training Class

The second version of the Principles of Test Management with IBM Rational Quality Manager course will include updated screen images to reflect changes in the user interface and use one IBM Rational Subject Matter Expert (SME) instead of several.

Audience

The target audience is project managers, test managers, quality managers, business analysts, and test leads who use IBM Rational Quality Manager. These clients are seeking a collaborative and customizable solution for test planning, workflow control, tracking and metrics reporting capable of quantifying how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.

A secondary audience is testers who need to understand project planning for test efforts and how IBM Rational Quality Manager facilitates use of automated and manual tests.

Course Description

This introductory course is designed to familiarize project management, test management, and business professionals with the basics of the test management solution with IBM Rational Quality Manager. This course provides recordings by an IBM Rational Subject Matter Expert to demonstrate the power of test management that is integrated with requirements, defect tracking, and test execution capabilities. You will learn how IBM Rational Quality Manager provides a collaborative and customizable solution for test planning and workflow control. When this solution is combined with the out-of-the-box tracking and metrics reporting, you can quantify how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.

Objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

Synchronize with business objectives and determine fitness for use
Utilize collaborative information and status sharing to facilitate software delivery
Use adaptive and customizable test plan management in a team environment
Understand use of configuration aware capabilities to help determine most efficient test coverage patterns
Automate to accelerate test creation and execution
Run on demand reports for instant project status

Topics Covered

Understand and use the Dashboard with various roles in RQM
Write, review, and approve a test plan with RQM
Show requirements traceability and coverage to the test plan in RQM
Use out-of-the box defect capabilities
Add test cases and test suites to a test plan
Use IBM Rational Functional Tester with RQM
Understand workflow control and use work items in RQM
Understand test execution with pair-wise testing combinations
Create and execute a test suite
Run planning and execution status reports