Test planning with IBM Rational Quality Manager

By synchronizing the team's work throughout the development cycle and automating some laborious work, ibm®rational®quality Manager can help the team achieve better cooperation. With this tool, teams can better manage their projects by providing timely and reliable evaluations. With this tool, teams can better manage their projects by providing timely and reliable evaluations. Rational Quality Manager is built on the jazz platform, the Jazz platform is a collaborative, role-based, business-driven environment that provides tools for workflow control, tracking, and evaluation reporting. The software is a collaborative, web-based Quality Management program that delivers comprehensive test plans, both testing and integration with automated test tools.

A test plan is a test strategy that is developed and paid for, usually for a specific period of time, such as a repeat period, sprint, or a small project. This article examines the test planning process and explores how Rational Quality Manager supports this process. You can give Rational Quality Manager some test documentation in your own mind. It provides the tools to simplify the process as much as possible. Within each phase of the plan, using Rational Quality Manager, rather than a basic file or project plan, is to integrate it with your reports and evaluations while the project is in progress.

Consider the test plan

When you consider your test plan, you should not start with a file. This is a process. The first thing you should do is to understand the background of specific companies and projects. Understanding the background means understanding the values, processes, operations, ideas, policies, and personalities of the things you are going to deal with. And not just business goals and project needs. It's about how the company and the team work, and why.

Once you have an idea of the background, start to develop a test plan. Karen N. Johnson recently published a conversation about creating a test plan at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference meeting in Portland,oregon. In this conversation, she gave a vivid description: "The interesting thing about the test strategy is that if you don't write it, it will write it yourself." "Karen continues to point out that if you don't make a test plan, it will be replaced with the assumption that people will think about the tests you're going to take." Then you may find that you can save a lot of time and effort by writing down something.

This is the whole of the test strategy: It's a way of telling your team members what you want to test and what you don't want to test, and what you're going to do next. It is a high-level form of communication that conveys intent. Another message from Karen's conversation is that the test strategy can be used as a test product bill or work summary. This is one way you tell people what you plan to deliver. For your test strategy, you need to answer these questions:

What are we testing?

What methods are we going to adopt?

What information do I need for more effective planning?

Only after you know what you want to deliver after you start planning. The test plan is the specific task that the test will complete. It is a logical test case and resource, and contains all the attachments and risks you need to be aware of when testing. When you plan, you want to estimate that you cannot accomplish everything you want to do, negotiate the scope, determine the delivery date and assign work.

When you are planning, ask some of the following questions:

How are we going to perform our tests?

Where are we going to execute them?

When are we going to start executing them?

How will we manage the problems found in our work?

And so on and so forth.

The purpose of these questions is to summarize and summarize the details of the test results for a given period. It is generally more likely that if you are documenting a test plan (which is not just a process for management and processing), then you can use it to help guide the test results. This means that you want the information to be as correct as possible.