Page title:Welcome to Rational Quality Manager

Closed Captioning text:IBM Rational Quality Manager is a collaborative, Web-based solution that combines the manual testing capabilities of Rational Manual Tester with the test management features of ClearQuest Test Manager and Rational Test Manager. With its extensible architecture, you can integrate Rational Quality Manager with multiple Rational and third-party tools. From a single environment, you can work with requirements management and definition; defect tracking; functional, performance, and security testing; and reporting.

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Page title:Exploring the Home Page

Closed Captioning text:After logging in, you first see the home page. The home page provides real-time project status, helping you to track progress at a glance. The home page features a dashboard with a default set of viewlets. For example, the My Tasks viewlet lists the tasks that are assigned to you. You can get additional information on specific tasks, test artifacts, or reports by clicking the links in the viewlets. You can customize your home page by adding and removing viewlets. You can drag new and current viewlets to other locations, creating a custom view. See the Welcome viewlet for links to help topics, tutorials, and other information to help you get started.

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Page title:Navigating the Test Plan

Closed Captioning text:The test plan can serve as the focal point for all testing activities. The test plan defines the objectives and scope for any given test effort and contains criteria to determine whether a product is ready for release. The table of contents lists the sections of the test plan. You can customize the test plan by adding and removing sections and renaming default sections.You can use the test plan to manage project requirements and establish interdependencies by adding requirements to the test plan and then later linking test cases with those requirements. You can create new requirements or you can import items from requirements management tools, such as Rational Requisite Pro and Telelogic DOORS. You can establish a formal review process to help your business and project comply with industry standards and regulations. Team members can be added as reviewers or approvers. When team members are added, they are notified of review or approval tasks. You can create high-level schedules for each milestone or iteration. In addition, you can define your test, business, and quality objectives, and the entrance and exit criteria for your test plan.

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Page title:Working with Test Cases and Test Scripts

Closed Captioning text:Rational Quality Manager contains tools for creating and managing test cases and test scripts. You develop test cases to define the project aspects that you need to validate in order to ensure that the system is built with a high level of quality. Typically, each test case is associated with one or more test scripts. You can use the full-featured manual test editor to create new manual test scripts. As with Rational Manual Tester, you can attach images and documents, insert comments, add verification text to statements, and use external test data and keywords. If you have automated test scripts located on a local test machine, you can import references to these scripts and manage them in Rational Quality Manager like any other script.

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Page title:Running Tests

Closed Captioning text:When you run a test that is associated with a manual test script, you perform each test instruction in the application being tested. You then return to the test script and record your progress. Some statements, such as step 2, require that you verify whether certain conditions pass or fail. Because the Classics CD window opened, you mark it as Pass and advance to the next step. As the test progresses, you can type comments, view statement attachments, and submit, resolve, or verify defects.

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Page title:Working with Test Suites

Closed Captioning text:You can create a test suite to run a group of test cases. Test suites can consist of tests with both manual and automated test scripts. During a test run, automated test scripts run unassisted. For manual test scripts, you perform each step manually. At the end of a test run, the test details are stored as part of the results history, where you can view details about the test case and test script. In addition, each step of a manual test run is captured, including any attachments, defects, comments, and verification text.

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Page title:Reporting Test Status

Closed Captioning text:Rational Quality Manager provides prepared reports that you can run at any time, so that you can monitor your project. Each report has a parameters section that lists the criteria that you can use to run a particular report. If you use the same report and parameters repeatedly, you can make a copy of the report and save the parameters for ready access. After you run a report, you can export the results to external applications. Many of the reports are interactive and provide access to additional details. You can click links, bar graphs, and pie charts to open reports that show the specific information.

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Page title:Rational Quality Manager

Closed Captioning text:Rational Quality Manager is designed to be used by test teams of all sizes and supports a variety of user roles both inside and outside of the test organization. The collaborative platform promotes teamwork, while improving efficiency by providing accelerated test execution and instant project status.

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