Responding to changes in requirements

When requirements are changed or deleted in the requirements source application, the status of the requirement in Rational® Quality Manager is updated to show the latest requirement status. Test cases that contain requirements that change or are deleted are identified as suspect. This enables you to adjust test plans and test cases quickly and accurately to respond to requirement changes

When you discover that a test case has become suspect due to associated requirements being changed in the requirements application, you can modify the test case based on the requirement changes.

To modify the test case based on requirement changes:

  1. If a requirement has been removed from the requirement source application, you can manually remove that requirement from test plans and test cases by selecting it and clicking X.
  2. If the requirement is updated, verify whether the association between the requirement and test case are still valid, and then decide if the association needs to be updated by adding additional test cases or disconnecting existing associations between the requirement and the current test cases.

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