Rational Robot is integrated with many other Rational products and components, including TestManager, TestFactory, ClearQuest, Purify, Quantify, PureCoverage, and RequisitePro. The products and components are available based on what you have installed.
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.
