Rational Quality Manager

Collaborate

• Test plans clearly describe project goals and exit criteria, while tracking responsibilities and prioritized items for validation. Software professionals know what is expected of them and what they can expect from their team.
• Rational Quality Manager is built on Java® and Web 2.0 technology, so teams can collaborate by simply opening a browser.
• The software offers two dashboard views: A work item list shows the tester his or her assignments, and a team event log tracks the team’s progress.
• Duplicate defect identification scans existing defects associated with a variety of related artifacts. It presents a list of suspect duplicates to minimize unnecessary team efforts.
• Features such as event feeds, integrated chat and automated traceability support communication among teams that are geographically dispersed.

Automate

• Manual test authoring includes a comprehensive text editor that can capture textual test steps alongside embedded images. You can accelerate manual testing using rich-text, in-line images, and assisted data entry and validation for precise text definition and execution.
• To enable test reuse, Rational Quality Manager uses keywords, which allow testers to share common steps between tests. Testers can create hybrid manual tests with automated keywords.
• Rational Quality Manager automatically identifies and selects the minimum number of tests required for a given level of environment coverage. Testers can optimize configuration coverage within their time and resource constraints.
• Risk-based testing prioritizes the features and functions to be tested based on importance and likelihood or impact of failure. This feature supports risk management best practices.
• Test lab management helps track, schedule and execute tests on physical and virtual lab assets. To optimize the use of test lab resources, testers can register their physical and virtual assets, and schedule execution according to asset configuration.

Govern

• Each user can customize the layout and content of his or her Rational Quality Manager dashboard. Because the dashboard is continually updated, each user can view the most current information that pertains to his or her work.
• Advanced reporting capabilities address the needs and concerns of quality managers, business analysts and release management, making it easier to assess readiness for delivery.
• Rational Quality Manager is designed to enable full lifecycle versioning and traceability from requirements and tests to defects and remediation.
• Built-in return on investment (ROI) metrics reporting capabilities for test lab and test assets comply with the IBM Measured Capability Improvement Framework.