Engineering Test Management integration

You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (ETM) with Rational® Test RealTime to create test environments and test scripts, deploy and run tests, and view HTML reports.

IBM® Engineering Test Managementis a business-driven software quality environment for users who are seeking a collaborative and customizable solution for test planning, workflow control, tracking and metrics reporting. It is used to quantify how project decisions and deliverable impact and align with business objectives.

Note: IBM® Engineering Test Management is the new name for IBM® Rational® Quality Manager (RQM) from version 7.0.

With Engineering Test Management integrated with Rational® Test RealTime, you can perform the following tasks:

Create Engineering Test Management test environments that are linked to Rational® Test RealTime target deployment ports
Create Engineering Test Management test scripts that are linked to Rational® Test RealTime test assets.
Deploy and run Rational® Test RealTime tests for the Engineering Test Management interface.
View HTML reports in the Engineering Test Management interface.

For Engineering Test Management the term test script is used to describe basic test assets. Engineering Test Management test scripts are mapped to Rational® Test RealTime test suites. A test suite contains multiple test harnesses that are run sequentially to provide global results for a project.

To use Engineering Test Management with Rational® Test RealTime for Eclipse IDE or Rational® Test RealTime Studio, the Rational® Test RealTime adapter service must be running on the computer.

With the adapter running, you can import test suites as Engineering Test Management test scripts, build a new Engineering Test Management test case based on those test suites, and run the tests from Engineering Test Management. You can also view the results of the tests in Engineering Test Management as HTML reports.