If your team has set up cross-server communication with IBM® Rational® Team Concert,
you can link your test cases to work items in IBM Rational Team Concert.
As such, you can set up a mapping between a feature that a developer
is working on and your test case.
Before you begin
Before you can link a test case to a work item, these requirements
must be met:
- C/ALM integration must be configured with IBM Rational Team Concert.
- There must be work items in a Rational Team Concert project
area to be linked to.
About this task
Note: The types of work items that are available depend on
the process that the development team is using. Not all work item
types are available in all processes. Typical work item types include
Plan Items, Defects, Enhancements, Tasks, Stories, and so on. For
more information about work items, see the section on "Managing change
and releases" in the Rational Team Concert Information
Center.
To link a test case to a work item.
Procedure
- Open a test case or create one in Rational Quality Manager.
Note: When creating a test case, you can set the Collaborative
ALM test case template as the default test case template.
This template includes a section for Plan Items. You can also create
a test case template that includes a Plan Item section.
- If there is no Plan Item section in your current test case,
you can add one:
- In the test case, click Manage Sections.
- In the Manage Sections window,
click Show all Sections.
- Select Plan Items, and then click the arrow pointing to the right.
- Click the up or down arrow to move the Plan Item to
the appropriate location in the test case.
- Click OK.
- In the Table of Contents, click Plan Item to
open the Plan Item section.
- Click the Add Plan Items icon (
).
- Select the work item to link to the test case.
- In the Type field, select the
work item type to search for; then select Show All to
show all work item types.
- Type the work item ID or words that the text of the
work item contains.
- Select the desired work item from the list.
- Click OK to add the work item
to the test case.
- Click Save to save the test case.
Results
After the work item is added to the test case, you can
hover over the work item ID to view the status of the work item. When
the developer updates the status in the work item, the changes will
be reflected in the work item ID in the test case.
Later, you
can open the test case from the link in the Rational Team Concert work
item.