IBM Engineering Test Management

IBM^® Engineering Test Management (formerly RQM) offers comprehensive test planning, test construction, and test artifact management throughout the development lifecycle. It enables teams to meet their software quality goals and improve efficiency and accuracy in a continuous delivery environment.

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Cisco Systems improves fault analysis and reporting using IBM Engineering Test Management, saving both time and money.

Features and capabilities

Comprehensive test plans

Test plans in Engineering Test Management are customizable live artifacts that capture the test process, strategy, and responsibilities, the test schedule, the quality goals, the entry and exit criteria, a set of test suites and test cases, and any other dimension of the testing activities. They can be linked to the requirements and development items to enable full traceability.

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Follow best practices and meet regulatory requirements

Engineering Test Management can improve the productivity of your teams and the quality of the work they produce by allowing each team to teach the tool its best practices. Engineering Workflow Management helps you meet regulatory requirements and get ready for compliance audits.

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Reporting with a purpose

Always have a real-time accurate status without having to ping each and every team members. Dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of test artifacts, work item queries, event feeds, reports, and other items that are critical to understanding your progress. Reports provide both real-time views and historical trends of test cases, test executions, defects, and other artifacts that your team works with.

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Develop and run test scripts quickly

Use Engineering Test Management to accelerate manual testing using rich text, in-line images and assisted data entry and validation for precise test definition and execution.

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Manage your test lab machines and virtual machines

Track all your lab resources in one place and make sure the required resources to execute your test plan are available. Request new configurations to be deployed and reserve critical resources ahead of time. Identify underutilized resources and high demand assets.

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Build the right tests with requirement driven testing

Engineering Test Management integrates with requirement management tools such as IBM Engineering Requirements DOORS Next or Engineering Requirements DOORS, and supports requirement driven testing. You can link your test plan to a collection of requirements streamlining the process of keeping test cases in sync with requirements as they evolve.

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Comprehensive test plans
Process awareness
Reporting with a purpose
Quicker manual testing
Simplified lab management
Requirements driven testing

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Integrate with requirement and test automation tools

Engineering Test Management works with requirements in IBM Engineering Requirements DOORS^® and IBM Engineering Requirements Rational DOORS Next to keep test cases in sync whenever requirements evolve.

Engineering Test Management also integrates with a wide range of test automation tools like IBM Rational Test Workbench, enabling you to you to run tests and collect results, all from a central location.

A community at your service

Jazz.net, the website for Engineering Test Management, gives you the unique opportunity to interact with a vibrant user community, as well as with the developers of Engineering Test Management itself. With the wide array of resources found on Jazz.net, support is always at your fingertips.

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The big picture

Engineering Test Management is part of the following solutions for systems engineering, embedded software development, and application software development.

IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management Extended
Engineering Lifecycle Management Base

More about Engineering Test Management

Documentation	API	Video	Support	Community
Getting started roadmap	Engineering Test Management API	Webcast: Rational Quality Solutions for SAP	Support Community	developerWorks: Engineering Test Management
Knowledge Center	Engineering Test Management Test Automation Adapter API Reference			developerWorks Technical Library
Library				Learning Circle
System Requirements
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