IBM Rational Quality Manager

Lifecycle quality management from requirements to test cases and defects

Rational Quality Manager provides quality assurance teams with means to track all aspects of the quality assurance effort. IBM Rational Quality Manager Standard Edition is designed to help medium to large teams collaborate by allowing them to seamlessly share information, to use automation to accelerate project schedules, and to report on project metrics for informed release decisions.

Overview

• Life cycle test plan which defines the roles, processes and deliverable ownership, automates the flow of work and assets
• Tailors content and presents information via customizable dashboards
• Enables collaboration distributed teams through a Web 2.0 interface
• Shared access to and traceability of assets throughout the lifecycle
• A flexible process framework to adopt leading practices over time
• Offers manual test authoring using rich text, in line images and assisted data entry and validation for precise test definition and execution
• Helps users achieve optimized environment coverage through test execution schedules
• Provides test lab management capabilities to help users track, schedule and execute tests on physical and virtual lab assets
• Central repository stores versioned history of test assets and templates for reuse
• Support for medium to large teams of up to 250 members
• Automated data collection with extensive filtered reporting