Overview
Rational Quality Manager comes with a complete set of Lab Management capabilities to help you structure your test
environment. The next section presents the steps that you need to perform in RQM to document and create the
appropriate environment related artifacts.
Tool Steps
1. Identify and Record Environments
In order to start structuring your test environment, all the environmental needs (OS, CPU, Browsers, and so on)
gathered from the architecture and deployment documents need to be captured in the Test Environments
section of the test plan.
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While you are in the Test Environments section, click the Platform
Coverage tab.
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Click on the Edit test environments icon.
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For each Environment Type, select from the available items list, the platforms needed for
this test plan.
For more information on how to perform this
task, prefer to the following RQM online topic: Testing > Planning the test effort > Preparing for test
execution > Listing the environments to be tested.
2. Create Test Environments
When all the environmental needs are listed in the Test Environments section, you need to create the
corresponding lab resource test environments. You can generate automatically the test environments from the previously
created environmental needs.
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While you are in the Test Environments section, click the Test Environment tab.
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Click on the Generate test environment icon.
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Follow the instructions on the pop-up window to generate specific test environments.
You can also manually create the required test environments. For more information on how to manually create the test environment(s), please refer to the
following RQM online topic: Tutorial: Getting started with Lab Management > Lesson 4: Creating a lab resource
test environment.
3. Consolidate List of Necessary Environments
All the created test environments can now be viewed and/or modified in the Lab Management > All test
environments list. To perform this task, please refer to the following RQM online topic: Testing > Managing lab resources > Viewing
configurations.
In order to consolidate as much as possible the number of lab resources needed, in each test environment, click on the
Coverage summary section to see, at a glance, common properties for each lab resource configuration.
4. Create Lab Resources
Given your physical and/or virtual machine(s) configurations (hardware and/or software), create the corresponding lab
resources. To create a machine, please refer
to the following RQM online topic: Testing > Managing lab resources > Creating physical machines. The
previously created test environments will be used as search criteria to find the appropriate lab resource(s) (physical
and/or virtual machine).
You optionally pre-configure and deploy virtual images on supported virtual machine engine. To pre-configure and deploy
a virtual image, please refer to the
following RQM online topic: Testing > Managing lab resources > Creating virtual images.
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