What's new in Rational Quality Manager

The Test Artifact widget supports both personal and shared queries for all major test artifacts. You can use the widget to embed the results of a query directly onto a dashboard.

Demo: Test artifact dashboard widget

You can select new execution preferences to enable the use of a single machine for test suite execution, and to perform strict reservation-based automated testing through an extended scheduling capability.

Demo: Improved test suite execution scenarios

You can't always be connected, so you can now run manual tests off-line. This ability is beneficial for tests on actual products or systems while being in the field or in an isolated test lab without connectivity. The new mobile application allows tests to be run while disconnected capturing verdicts and results.

You now have the option to enforce that two test artifacts of the same type (test plan, test case, test suite, test script, etc.) cannot have the same name (summary) in a project area. This improves artifact reuse by minimizing the chance to create the same test artifacts twice, and helps to avoid confusion between two artifacts with the same name.

• For easier planning and tracking with test suites, enable a new feature so that test case execution records are created automatically at the time of test suite execution record creation.
• Support for systems testing through enumerated project execution variable.
• Demo: From Rational DOORS Web Access, link requirements to Quality Manager test script steps for enhanced traceability.

New preconditions allow you to ensure that a test plan is approved only when all test cases have been approved.

Demo: Adding preconditions to require test cases

New preconditions allow you to ensure that a test plan is approved only when all test cases have been approved.

Demo: Adding preconditions to require test cases

New features help you track test artifacts and activities for auditing.

• E-signature can be set up as a requirement for locking or approving test plans, test scripts, test suites, execution results, and test suite results. To perform an E-signature, a user must enter user ID and password and select a meaning for the signature from a set of user pre-defined values.
• The following information is captured automatically at execution time: tester information and the workflow states of the referenced test plan, test case and test script, where applicable, at the start of the test execution.
• For auditing purposes, it is possible to query the list of all testers involved in running a test in the table views and export that information to CSV and PDF formats.

Product line testing using duplication and linking of test artifacts as a way to manage the test of product variants. You can now duplicate and link an artifact as a way to support the need for parallel development and configuration management, including:

• Make a shallow copy with no references
• Make a shallow copy with references
• Make a deep copy of test cases

Demo: Watch to learn more about the duplicate artifacts feature in 4.0.3.

Productivity improvements including the ability to customize main menu organization and test artifact templates, do in-line editing in table views, utilize the trash view and the permanent delete operation

Demo 1: Watch to see how to take advantage of the new menu customization to match your needs.

Demo 2: Watch and see what new artifact template features are available.

• Be more efficient with additional ways to create, edit, sort, filter, and query test artifacts.
• Capture screenshots directly from the manual test script editor and during manual test execution.
• Quickly find Test Case Execution Records by filtering the view based on Test Case categories.
• Use test plans or the team area to filter test cases in a table view.
• Edit many test cases and test results at once with additional bulk update actions.
• Ability to generate Test Case Execution Records directly from Test Case Execution Records table view.
• Organize test data using custom categories.
• Select records from test data to be used during test execution.

• Visualize requirement coverage gaps with the new Coverage view.
• You get the ability to see backlink status in traceability view.
• Improved link labels between DOORS requirements and Rational Quality Manager test artifacts.
• Improved Requirement Collection Links section.
• When reconciling a master test plan, see which requirements are already covered by its child test plans.

• New addition of the required approvals precondition.
• Change automatically test artifact state based on the state of the formal review approvals.
• Auto-lock test artifact based on test artifact state.
• In manual testing, mandate actual result for every step, when step fails.
• Prevent modification of an approval group once it has been completed.
• Archive and copy approval groups.

Demo: New in the 4.0.1 web UI
Watch how to use preconditions and follow-up actions to guard against the creation of faulty test scripts for a project.

• Report on many more parameters thanks to the new RRDI schema.
• View master and child test plans in reports -- and a new report parameter: Most Recent Iteration Only.
• Test status across multiple milestones.
• Enhancements for Java ETL logging.
• Export manual test script to PDF in condensed format.

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