Planning and Managing Tests in TestManager
Rational
TestManager is the one place to manage all testing activities –
planning, design, implementation, execution, and analysis. TestManager
ties testing with the rest of the development effort, joining your
testing assets and tools to provide a single point from which to
understand the exact state of your project.
Test Manager supports five testing activities:
Plan Test.
The activity of test planning is primarily answering the question,
"What do I have to test?" When you complete your test planning, the
result is a test plan that defines what to test. In TestManager, a test
plan can contain test cases. The test cases can be organized based on
test case folders.
Design Test.
The activity of test designing is primarily answering the question,
"How am I going to do a test?" When you complete your test designing,
you end up with a test design that helps you understand how you are
going to perform the test case. In TestManager, you can design your
test cases by indicating the actual steps that need to occur in that
test. You also specify the preconditions, postconditions, and
acceptance criteria.
Implement Test.
The activity of implementing your tests is primarily creating reusable
scripts. In TestManager, you can implement your tests by creating
manual scripts. You can also implement automated tests by using
Rational Robot. You can extend TestManager through APIs so that you can
access your own implementation tools from TestManager. Because of this
extensibility, you can implement your tests by building scripts in
whatever tools are appropriate in your situation and organization.
Execute Tests.
The activity of executing your tests is primarily running your scripts
to make sure that the system functions correctly. In TestManager, you
can run any of the following: (1) an individual script, which runs a
single implementation; (2) one or more test cases, which run the
implementations of the test cases; (3) a suite, which runs test cases
and their implementations across multiple computers and users.
Evaluate Tests.
The activity of evaluating tests is determining the quality of the
system-under-test. In TestManager, you can evaluate tests by examining
the results of test execution in the test log, and by running various
reports.
Planning
and managing tests is only one part of Rational TestManager. You also
use TestManager to view the logs created by Robot.