Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides quality assurance teams with means to track all aspects of the quality assurance effort.

IBM Rational Quality Manager 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.

• Risk Based Testing to prioritize the features and functions to be tested based on priority and likelihood or impact of failure supporting best practices in Risk Management
• Duplicate Defect Identification scans existing defects associated with a variety of related artifacts to present a list of suspect duplicates to to minimize duplicate team efforts
• Advanced and Customized reporting that addresses the concerns and needs of business analysts and management
• Built in ROI metrics reporting for test lab and test assets in compliance with Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF)
• 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 for distributed teams through a Web 2.0 interface
• Shared access to and traceability of assets throughout the lifecycle
• Updated: 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 with an unlimited number of members
• Automated data collection with extensive filtered reporting