| Risk Based Testing | IBM Rational Quality Manager's Risk Based Testing enables teams to confidently make decisions to meet business quality objectives supporting best practices in risk management. By prioritizing efforts to assure quality where resources are limited and providing a collaborative risk management strategy, teams are able to focus on those areas of the application which are at the highest risk of failure. |
| Duplicate Defect Identification | Duplicate Defect Identification capability within IBM Rational Quality Manager, scans existing defects associated with a variety of related artifacts and presents a list of suspect duplicates to to minimize duplicate team efforts. |
| Advanced and Customizable Reporting | IBM Rational Quality Manager leverages Advanced and Customized reporting that addresses the concerns and needs of business analysts and management using built in ROI metrics reporting for test lab and test assets in compliance with Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF). |
| User customized content and layout | IBM Rational Quality Manager provides contextual information tailored to the individual. Each user can customize the layout and content on his or her Rational Quality Manager dashboard, and, because the dashboard is continually updated, each user can view the most current information that pertains to his or her work. |
| Dynamic Test Plan | With IBM Rational Quality Manager, a test plan is a dynamic, living document that evolves with the project; it’s a quality contract that clearly describes project goals and entry and exit criteria, while also tracking prioritized items for validation. Static data, such as business objectives, and dynamic data, such as requirements and test cases, are captured in the plan. |
| Work Item tracking | IBM Rational Quality Manager can create and track prioritized work items for all team members. This capability enables teams to track of work that must be done to complete a quality assurance project. This feature establishes clear prioritized ownership for project deliverables, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. |
| Distributed access for teams of any size | IBM Rational Quality Manager is built on a Java™ and Web 2.0 technology–based architecture, so team collaboration doesn’t have to be any more complicated than opening a browser. No heavy installation or proprietary limiting Microsoft® ActiveX technologies are required. |
| Constantly updated team status | IBM Rational Quality Manager offers two views on the individual user’s dashboard: A work-item list that shows a tester what work has been assigned to him or her, and a team event log that updates automatically as activities occur/progress. Together these views help ensure that everyone is on the same page. |
| Manual test authoring | IBM Rational Quality Manager integrated rich manual test. Testers are provided with a rich text editor that can capture textual test steps alongside embedded images. Using this editor, testers can record the test steps that must be executed in order to validate a given function of their application. |
| Manual test assisted data entry and validate | IBM Rational Quality Manager allows you to embed test data as a property of a given test step. During test execution, manual tester will populate the Windows clipboard with this text, so that the user can paste the text into the application. This eliminates transcription errors for testers. For validating data, users can copy data from the application to the clipboard. Rational Quality Manager can then compare this to baseline data stored as part of the test, highlighting any discrepancies in the test log. |
| Test re-use across manual and automated tests | To enable test reuse, IBM Rational Quality Manager uses keywords, which allow testers to share common steps between tests. These can be manual steps or automated test scripts that are powered, for example, by IBM Rational Functional Tester. Creating hybrid manual tests with automated keywords is often a very simple way for manually focused test teams to leverage the power of test automation, without making a full commitment to
a test automation framework. |
| Test coverage optimization | IBM Rational Quality Manager includes technology that is designed to automatically identify and select the minimum number of tests required for a given level of environment coverage. This enables testers to ensure that they optimize configuration coverage within their time or resource constraints. |
| Test lab management | IBM Rational Quality Manager supports distributed execution across physical and virtual lab machines. To enable this, the software includes test lab management functionality that allows testers to register their physical and virtual assets as well as schedule execution according to asset configurations. This helps remove administrative burdens and helps ensure optimal utilization of test lab resources. |
| Security Testing | Available integration to IBM Rational AppScan® Tester edition helps QA teams find and remediate security vulnerabilities earlier in the development process, reducing downstream cost and corporate risk. This helps eliminate the need for QA personnel to learn advanced or new security tools and enable security testing alongside functional and performance testing. |
| Lifecycle traceability | IBM Rational Quality Manager is designed to enable full lifecycle versioning and traceability from requirements and tests to defects and remediation. Users can create requirements directly in IBM Rational Quality Manager, or requirements can be tracked through a dynamic link to requirements management tools such as IBM Rational DOORS and IBM Rational RequisitePro® software. Test cases can then be linked to requirements, providing project managers with a way to track requirements coverage. Should any issues be found during test execution, defects can be entered and tracked to help ensure proper feature development. |
