Interactive workflow: Rational Quality Manager in an enterprise environment

IBM® Rational® Quality Manager is designed to be used by test teams of all sizes and supports a variety of user roles and work flows. This topic describes one possible flow to support an Enterprise environment.
The following diagram shows one possible workflow throughRational Quality Manager in an enterprise environment, integrated with other products. The test manager or test lead uses requirements from a requirements management product to create a test plan. The test plan can also define a review process, quality objectives and risk mitigation. The test manager or test lead associates requirements with test cases and assigns the test cases to testers. The tester creates test suites that contain the test cases and then develops manual test scripts. The test manager or test lead approves the test scripts. The lab manager creates test environments to support the test cases and test suites using the automation product. Then the tester generates test execution records and checks the build status as reported by the change management product. When a build is available with the code to test, the tester requests lab assets, runs the test execution records, and submits and track defects in defects tracking product. These processes continue until the test plan quality goals and exit criteria are met:
  1. Track builds
  2. Request lab assets
  3. Run tests
  4. Submit and track defects
At any point, the test manager or test lead can generate any reports.
The diagram is provided only as an example. Your team might use a different workflow. In addition, the diagram implies that each task follows sequentially, whereas most tasks can be accomplished simultaneously.
Figure 1. Interactive iconWorkflow diagram of an enterprise use of (Click on any box for more information, shift-click to open in a new browser)
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