Developing test cases, test suites,
and test execution records
- Test case overview
A test case answers the question, "What am I going
to test?" You develop test cases to define the things that you need to validate
to ensure that the system is working properly and is built with a high level
of quality.
- Creating new test cases
Test cases describe what you are going to test.
- Viewing existing test cases in a project
With IBM® Rational® Quality
Manager,
you can easily create a list of the existing test cases in a project.
If you have large projects with hundreds or thousands of test cases,
you can use the product's filtering capabilities to greatly reduce
the number of test cases in the view and help you locate the desired
test cases more quickly.
- Creating a test suite
A test suite is a collection of test cases that have been grouped
for test execution purposes.
- Managing sections of test plans and test cases
If some of the existing sections in a supplied test plan or test
case are not useful to you, you can remove them and add your own sections.
- Managing categories
You can use test plan and test case categories to help you organize
your test plans and test cases into logical groups. Later, when you list all
of your test plans or test cases, you can use these categories to help you
sort and more easily manage the list.
- Managing templates
Use templates as a starting point for test plans and test cases.
You can start with one of the default templates, or you can create new ones.
You can also designate which templates are the default.
- Adding a new test case to a test plan
You can create a new test case in the context of an existing test
plan or you can create a new test case independent of any test plan.
- Adding existing test cases to a test plan
You can add any existing test cases to a test plan.
- Adding existing test scripts to a test case
When you add a test script to a test case, it is listed
in the Test Scripts section of the test case.
- Creating a single test execution record
In addition to generating multiple test execution records automatically,
you can create a single test execution record manually.
- Generating test execution records automatically
Use test execution records to
specify the execution environments for each test case and to track
the status of each test case run. A wizard is provided for generating test execution records automatically.
- Editing test execution records
You can reassign test execution records to
new owners and also change the iteration to which they are assigned.