Rational ClearQuest Test Manager

Rational ClearQuest Test Manager is a feature that manages the components of a testing environment:

• Test plans
• Test cases
• Test requirements
• Test configurations
• Test scripts
• Test results

Test plans identify test cases, which represent the ways in which users are likely to use the product. Test scripts are written to ensure that the requirements for the test cases are met. The results returned when the test scripts run are evaluated to determine project status, in particular, the progress toward completing the work represented by the next milestone in the project. The hierarchical relationship between these files, documents, and data is represented by records in a Rational ClearQuest database. The records in the database are organized in a test planning hierarchy.

Rational ClearQuest Test Manager supports following phases of testing:

• Planning

The asset registry record is created first: test plan, test case, and configured test case records are then created to support the planning hierarchy.

• Authoring

Test scripts are created and associated with test case and configured test case records.

• Execution

Configured test case or test suite records are executed and then test results are reviewed; If useful, the results are committed to the Rational ClearQuest database to create test log and suite log records.

• Analysis

Rational ClearQuest Test Manager provides queries, charts, and reports for tracking test assets. Also, user can write his own queries, charts, and reports for custom reporting.

Rational ClearQuest Test Manager comes with four clients, which provide user with some supported tasks:

Rational ClearQuest for Windows client:

• Test planning
• Analyzing test results

Rational ClearQuest Web client:

• Test planning
• Analyzing test results

Rational ClearQuest Client:

• Test planning
• Creating file associations for implemented test scripts and motivator files
• Executing test scripts (Rational Manual Tester only)
• Reviewing test results
• Committing of test results
• Analyzing committed test results

Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse:

• Test planning
• Creating file associations for implemented test scripts and motivator files
• Executing test scripts
• Reviewing test results
• Committing test results
• Analyzing committed test results

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