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IBM Engineering Test Management

Increase efficiency and quality of software delivery with test planning, workflow control, tracking, and metrics reporting.

What can IBM Engineering Test Management do for your company?

IBM Engineering Test Management is a collaborative, web-based, quality management solution that offers comprehensive test planning and test asset management from requirements to defects. Built on the Jazz platform, it enables teams to seamlessly share information. It uses automation to speed project schedules and report on metrics for informed release decisions. It can also be purchased as part of the EngineeringLifecycle Management solution—a set of seamlessly integrated tools: IBM Enginering Workflow Management, IBM Engineering Test Management and IBM Engineering Requirements Management.

A simple test management tool or a complementary test management tool?

Very often, tools for quality management of developed systems or software are limited to simple test case management functions. In the case of IBM Engineering Test Management, you get a complete solution to manage software and system testing campaigns by managing test plans, test cases, test environments, teamwork and monitoring the launch of automated and manual test scripts. Despite its extensive functionality, the tool can be used in a simplified way, using some of the basic features, which allows less experienced teams to work with a professional tool.

Experienced teams can take full advantage of the extensive features of the IBM Engineering Test Management tool and further customize the quality assurance process available by default in the tool to meet their needs.

Test Management can also be acquired in the IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management solution. This set of integrated tools includes IBM Engineering Workflow Management, IBM Engineering Test Management, and IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next.

Product overview

Features of IBM Engineering Test Management

Requirement tools integration

IBM Engineering Test Management works with the IBM Engineering requirement management tool. You can link test cases and mark them as suspect whenever requirements are modified.

Communications support

Support communication among teams that are geographically dispersed using features such as event feeds, integrated chat, review, and approval and automated traceability.

Automation tools integration

IBM Engineering Test Management integrates with many test automation tools including IBM, Mercury (HP) and open-source tools. Execute tests with all kinds of tools and collect test results—all from a central location.

Advanced reporting capabilities

Address the needs and concerns of quality managers, business analysts and release management using advanced reporting capabilities, making it easier to assess readiness for delivery.

Comprehensive test plans

Test plans clearly describe project quality goals and exit criteria, while tracking responsibilities and prioritized items for verification and validation.

Risk-based testing

Provides risk-based testing for prioritizing the features and functions to be tested based on importance and likelihood or impact of failure, supporting risk management best practices.

IBM renamed the IBM RQM - Rational Quality Manager

IBM is renaming IBM Continuous Engineering to IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management and renaming the family of products in this portfolio. IBM recognizes that product development is getting more complex with shrinking product lifecycles, more technical savvy and demanding customers, and growing compliance and regulatory requirements; and IBM wants to make sure our product naming does not compound this complexity. IBM wants customers to be able to easily identify a products’ function by its name.

IBM wants to ensure that our existing customers recognize our focus/investment, and that the marketplace in general and new customers in particular can easily identify which of our products cover major development disciplines – requirements, test, etc

Listing of the major product renaming:

IBM Collaboration Lifecycle Management (CLM) renamed to IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM)
IBM Rational DOORS renamed to IBM Engineering Requirements DOORS Management DOORS Family
IBM Rational DOORS NG renamed to IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) renamed to IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM)
IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM) renamed to IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM)
IBM Rational Rhapsody renamed to IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
Rational Rhapsody Model Manager renamed to IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody – Model Manager
Rational Method Composer (RMC) renamed to IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Method Composer (MEC)
IBM Rational Publishing Engine (RPE) renamed to IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Publishing (PUB)
IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM) renamed to IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization – Engineering Insights (ENI)

IBM Engineering Test Management a replacement for IBM Rational TestManager

IBM Rational TestManager was used to manage all aspects of testing and all sources of information related to testing during all phases of the software development project.

IBM Engineering Test Management is an improved version of the IBM Rational TestManager tool and at the same time a completely new solution that is part of the complementary IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (IBM Jazz) platform. IBM ETM is a completely new solution based on modern technologies such as Web 2.0 and OSLC (Opec Services for Lifecycle Collaboration), but addresses similar issues as IBM Rational TestManager did in the past.

Quality Assurance is a process domain that cannot be separated from requirements management, change management, and team collaboration, and data should be easily shared between these domains. That’s why IBM Engineering Test Management and the entire IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform work not only in the test management domain, where IBM Rational TestManager has proven itself, but throughout the entire software and systems development process.