Rational Quality Manager overview

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Rational Quality Manager offers...

• test planning
• manual testing
• integration with other test tools

RQM replaces...

• Rational Manual Tester
• Rational ClearQuest Test Manager
• Rational Test Manager

RQM is based on the Rational Jazz platform .

RQM users include...

• test manager
• test architect
• test lead
• tester
• lab manager

See also: Rational Jazz

Test planning

Rational Quality Manager test plans drive project life cycle activity for distributed teams, defining...

• Business objectives
• Test objectives
• Release criteria
• Review and approval process
• Project requirements and test cases
• Size of the test effort
• Schedule for each test iteration
• Track dates of test activities
• List of environments to be tested
• Test configurations
• Quality goals
• Entrance criteria
• Exit criteria
• Manage test cases
• Create a read-only snapshot of the test plan

Test script construction, execution, and reuse

Rational Quality Manager provides a test editor.

You can import manual test scripts from Rational Manual Tester.

You can add reuse and automation capabilities to manual tests by using keywords.

With Rational Quality Manager, you can manage and execute test scripts created with tools such as...

• Rational Automation Framework
• Rational Performance Tester
• Rational Robot
• Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality
• Rational AppScan Tester Edition

You can also import test artifacts from external test management solutions, such as...

• Rational ClearQuest Test Manager
• Rational TestManager

Test analysis and reporting

Rational Quality Manager includes several standard test reports to help evaluate test results. Reports are available during all phases of the test process.

You can use reports to perform these tasks:

• Determine the validity of a test run.

• Check feature coverage against test plans, test inputs, configurations, and so on. This can also be used to measure test progress and to analyze trends.

• Run a gap analysis to measure the resources needed to do testing versus the resources that are available

Team collaboration

Rational Quality Manager shares information with other members of team using the Jazz-based work-item system. Team members can...

• Assign tasks and defects to each other
• View eachone's status

Test plan authors and test case designers can...

• distribute their work for review
• track the status of each reviewer

New and changed requirements are visible to the team, as are the test cases that are needed to satisfy those requirements. Team members are notified automatically of any changes and milestones that impact their work.

Lab management

With Rational Quality Manager lab management capabilities, you can create requests for the test environments that test plan specifies. You can then work with the lab manager to ensure that lab resources and test environments are available when needed. Lab managers can track all lab resources from a centralized resource repository and fulfill requests from the test team.

Web application security

Rational Quality Manager helps IT and security professionals protect against the threat of attacks and security breaches through its integration with Rational AppScan Tester Edition. Security testing for Web applications can result in higher-quality, more secure applications at a reasonable cost.

Governance

Rational Quality Manager helps ensure that business processes comply with industry, corporate, and departmental standards and regulations. Throughout the testing life cycle, Rational Quality Manager provides you with the tools to obtain an up-to-the-minute measurement of software quality and project metrics. With its comprehensive test plan and integration with requirements management and defect tracking tools, Rational Quality Manager helps streamline test strategy and produce reliable records of test results and project history.