Viewing existing test plans in a project

With IBM® Rational® Quality Manager, you can easily create a list of the existing test plans in a project. If you have large projects with hundreds or thousands of test plans, you can use the product's filtering capabilities to greatly reduce the number of test plans in the view and help you locate the desired test plans more quickly.

To view the existing test plans in a project:

  1. From the left sidebar, point to the Planning icon and click View Test Plans.

    The View Test Plans window opens.

    The top portion of the window contains the View Builder editor, which lets you create a customized filter.

    The bottom portion of the window contains the search results.

    Note: Unlike Rational Quality Manager v1.0, no test plans are displayed until you run the search.
  2. In the View Builder, do one of the following:
    • Select My test plans only to limit the search to your own test plans.
      Note: My test plans only will limit the search to those test plans that you created yourself or to test plans to which you have been assigned a work item.
    • Deselect My test plans only to expand the search to all users' test plans.
  3. In the Name field, type any portion of a test plan name, for example, v7.5 or 2007, to limit the search to test plans that contain that text in the name.
  4. In the Originator field, click the down arrow and select one or more test plan originators from the list.
    Note: An originator is the user that created the test plan.
  5. In the State field, click the down arrow and select one or more states from the list to limit the search to those test plans that are in any of the selected states.
  6. Click Run to run the search.

    The search results are displayed in the form of a table in the bottom portion of the View Test Plans window.

  7. After you run the search, there are further actions you can take to modify the results.
    • Click the Type Filter Text field (Type Filter Text) at the upper, right-hand corner of the search results section to limit the results to those test plans that contain the text that you type.
    • In the Group by field, click the down arrow and make a selection to sort the results by one of the available categories.
    • Click the Manage Test Plan Categories icon (Manage Test Plan Categories) to add and remove categories to be displayed in the search results.
    • Click the Change Display Settings (Change Display Settings icon to change the columns that are displayed in the search results or to change the width of each column.
    • Select a test plan and click the (Remove) icon to delete the test plan from the list.
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