To create a new test plan environment type, you
must first define it in Lab Resource Properties. You create a root
type to contain the new environment type, and then you define the
new environment type as a sub type of the root. The new test environment
type displays as the title of a set of test environment types, and
the sub types display as test environment types that are selectable.
The type and subtype display in the Test Environments section of test
plans and in the Test Execution Records section of test cases where
you define new test environments.
For example, if you
have an in-house security application called Security1 that you wanted
to define as an environment type, and Security1 is part of the desktop
applications that your company provides to its employees, you could
define Desktop Applications as a root type, and Security1 as a sub
type. Desktop Applications would display as
the heading of group of test environment types, and Security1 would
display as one of the selectable test environment types.
About this task
To create test plan environment types:
Procedure
- Log on as a user with JazzAdmins repository
permissions.
- From the Admin menu, select System
Properties.
- Select Lab Resource Properties.
The Lab Resource Properties editor opens.

- Click the Add New Type (plus sign)
icon. The Add New Type window opens. This is where you define a new
lab resource type.

- Type a name for the new lab resource type.
- Select the Set the new root type as a test plan
environment type check box, and click OK. The new lab resource type displays in the list of types.
- Define at least one subtype:
- Select the new lab resource type. A new column displays
to the right of the type, and contains a default subtype with the
same name as the type with 1 appended to it.
- Click the subtype name and type a descriptive name.
- To create another subtype, click the plus sign icon
at the top of the column and repeat these steps.
- When you are finished adding subtypes, click Save.
- Log out, and then log in again. The new test environment
type that you created in this topic displays in the test environment
sections in test plans and test cases, and in the wizard for creating
test execution records in test cases.