Linking quality management artifacts

You can associate Rational® quality management artifacts with JIRA issues.

About this task

The Rational Adapter for JIRA can be used to integrate Rational quality management artifacts and JIRA artifacts, useful when you work with teams that use both Rational products and JIRA. You can link to a JIRA issue with a Test link, an Affected by link, or a Related tasks link.

This procedure shows you how to link a test from Rational Quality Manager to a JIRA change request, creating the JIRA link as part of the link process.

Procedure

  1. Go to https:/fully-qualified-hostname:port/qm/web/projects/My Change Management Project, and log in with your user name and password credentials.
  2. Open a test case.
  3. Run the test if you must generate test results. Click the Play icon, and in the window that opens, either accept the defaults settings, or choose some sample settings, and click OK.
  4. In the shown results, select Partially Blocked from the Actual results menu.
  5. Scroll down to the Defects section of the results, and click the Create New Defect icon, which the first icon available. You can hover over each icon to see the icon description.
  6. From the dialog box that opens, select your JIRA project from the menu, and click OK. If you are using Internet Explorer, you might be prompted to choose to view only secure content. You must click No.
  7. A new JIRA dialog box opens. (Log in with your JIRA account if prompted.) Provide some sample data in the required fields, and click Create.
  8. Save your test results.

Results

You can hover over the link to the task that you just created to see the preview details.
Note: Other link types are supported, and linking to existing JIRA change requests. Refer to the linkage tables at Integrating Rational artifacts with JIRA for full details.

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