About this Course

This introductory course is designed to familiarize testing professionals with the basics of IBM Rational Quality Manager V4.0. The Rational Quality Manager application assists in creating scripts for manual testing. The course helps you to create manual tests more quickly, streamline the execution of manual tests, and monitor manual test results. Additionally, you will learn how to increase the reuse of test assets, and how to use external test data with test scripts. With hands-on lab exercises that reinforce learning, the focus of this course is on the practical application of Rational Quality Manager to resolve common manual testing challenges.

Audience Profile

This course is for Rational Quality Manger users who create and run tests, Testers who are familiar with manual testing, Quality assurance practitioners, managers and team leaders who are responsible for interacting with testers, or who need to ensure that the tools are being implemented fully and appropriately.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Identify the benefits of using IBM Rational Quality Manager
• Create a test script
• Modify a test script
• Run a test
• Examine test results
• Reuse existing test script content
• Create a data-driven test script

Prerequisites

You should have:

• a general understanding of manual testing

Course Outline

1. Rational Quality Manager and the testing process
2. Creating test scripts
3. Executing tests and reporting test results
4. Designing test scripts for reuse
5. Reusing test content
6. Using test data