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 through
Rational 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:
- Track builds
- Request lab assets
- Run tests
- 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.
Workflow
diagram of an enterprise use of (Click on any box for more information, shift-click
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