Jazzing Up QA: An Introduction to Rational Quality Manager

Daniel Gilio, Practice Director Geneva Technical Services

www.genevatechnicalservices.com

About the Presenter

Daniel Gilio is Practice Director of Geneva Technical Services
Lifecycle Development Practice, experienced with the complete IBM Rational Tool Suite. He has extensive experience implementing solutions with ClearCase/ClearQuest/UCM, Requisite Pro across divergent Enterprise environments.

10+ years in SDLC & IBM Rational Tools Multiple Deployments of Rational Tools to Fortune 100 Companies

What is Jazz?

Planned Jazz Evolution

How Does Jazz Fit In?

Barriers to effective software quality

Sources: 1-Standish Group

2-Forrester

3-Gartner

Process and Strategy Drives Test Cycles

IBM Rational Quality Management Blueprint

Testing at an Enterprise Level

Rational Quality Manager

Full Web Based Test Management

Included Manual Testing on the Web Practioner tools (RFT, RPT) still have desktop clients with which RQM interfaces

Reporting
Through all phases of testing (accessible anywhere anytime) Access to information needed in real time Easily Customized per custom reports

Comprehensive Test Planning

Test Plan Centric Approach Ability to define and Capture complete Test Plan Customization of Test Plans per project/organization needs Govern and manage Test Project utilizing Test Plan

Collaboration & Communication

Unifies the test team Review and approval processes Test Asset Reuse and Versioning

Customization
Help customers model, represent, report against their test process Define Test Plan templates Custom reports

Reporting
Constant Status reporting based upon the measures defined
as part of overall process
1. When am I done testing? 2. What else do I need to validate? 3. What is the quality of my AUT? 4. Am I ready to release? 5. If I release now what would be the impact to my business? 6. How much longer will it take to fully test the system? 7. What is my Requirements Coverage? 8. What is my major blocking issues? 9. Where do I need to focus my testing for this build/release? 10.Have I met all my exit Criteria so I can move to next Phase? 11.We did everything as defined per our process what went wrong?

Full set of reports/Metrics/Dashboards

Ability to easily create you own

Summary
Rational Quality Manager:
Mitigates business risk: Catch defects earlier and keep the team in synch with dynamic process and activity-based workflows Improves operational efficiency: Automate labor-intensive lifecycle processes and determine optimal plans addressing wide range of platforms and requirements Provides greater visibility of metrics: Make reliable decisions with constant access to prioritized metrics tailored for individuals and teams Protect existing investments and deliver greater predictability: Adopt successful deployment patterns and map to operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), platforms and requirements

RQM Roles
By default, Rational Quality Manager includes these
predefined user roles:
Architect Test manager Test lead Tester Lab manager Everyone (meaning everyone else)

When your administrator creates user IDs, each user ID is

assigned to a role. Teams can configure the roles so that certain functions are enabled or disabled for each role. Because roles are configurable, your test team can customize Rational Quality Manager to suit their needs.

Example of Roles in Practice

Our Quality Management Team

Our Quality Management Team

Lucy - Test Mgr Charlie - Tester Schroeder - Lead Patty Lab Mgr

DEMO

QUESTIONS