Rational Test Manager

Rational TestManager is the central console for
- test activity management,
- execution
- reporting

It supports everything from manual test approaches to various automated paradigms including unit testing, functional regression testing, and performance testing. It lets testers know immediately when a requirement has changed that impacts test cases, and improves team productivity by making test results and progress toward goals immediately available to all team members.

Rational TestManager can be accessed by all members of a project team, ensuring the high visibility of test coverage information, defect trends, and application readiness. Rational TestManager is freely available to all users of IBM Rational® Functional Tester, Rational Manual Tester and IBM Rational® Robot. And because of its value to development teams, it is also included in the IBM Rational® Team Unifying Platform.


Features

Support for all test types: Plan, manage and execute functional, performance, manual, integration, regression, configuration and component testing from the same interface. Gives QA leads, project managers and business analysts a comprehensive view into all of the test activities and test results for the application.

Customizable test management: Open APIs in Rational TestManager let users build support for new test inputs (e.g. system requirements from a third-party tool) and test types (e.g. home-grown unit tests).

Support for local and remote test execution: Run tests on the local machine or on remote machines in the test lab. Parallel test execution is limited only by the number of system resources at your disposal.

Establish and manage traceability: Requirements are linked to test cases, ensuring proper test coverage. In addition, suspicion analysis ensures that when requirements change, test cases traced to the requirement are automatically flagged as possible candidates for modification.

Detailed test evaluation: An integrated log viewer constructs a log for each test run, including test status, environmental information and additional informational tags such as runtime analysis information gathered by Rational PurifyPlus.

Generate meaningful reports: Rational TestManager includes a series of predefined graphical and textual reports capturing the crucial aspects of application quality and test completeness. Special reports exist for performance test analysis, including correlation reports combining response times with resource utilization metrics from remote machines. TestManager also ships with a flexible reporting engine enabling the creation of custom reports required by your organization's internal development processes. New report templates we find useful for our customers are periodically posted to the Rational domain of the IBM developerWorks® website for public consumption.

Deep integration with Rational's Team Unifying Platform tools: Out-of-the-box integration with Rational RequisitePro ensures seamless traceability between requirements and test cases, resulting in clear test coverage metrics and sensitivity to requirement modification. Out-of-the-box integration with Rational ClearQuest enables in-context defect submission directly from the TestManager Log Viewer, automatically porting test run data into the defect report to ensure accuracy. Out-of-the-box integration with Rational ClearCase LT delivers full baselining capabilities to accommodate the natural evolution of a project, moving from one build or release to the next.

Courtsey: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/test/manager/