• The quality of your product can not only affect your sales, but can directly impact your brand, company reputation, and your warranty/maintenance expense. 

• Increasingly complex products and reduced development cycles can strain even the most competent testing department. As a product’s function/feature list grows there is a compounding effect on the number and complexity of required testing. 

• Testing is often the last step in a traditional  development process and as such is usually under the most pressure when schedules are tight. It is no longer competitive nor a best-practice to start testing when you have completed your entire product development effort. Testing must start as early as possible to avoid product delays or releasing an under-tested product.

Support communication among teams that are geographically dispersed using features such as event feeds, integrated chat, review and approval and automated traceability.

Address the needs and concerns of quality managers, business analysts and release management using advanced reporting capabilities, making it easier to assess readiness for delivery.

Provides risk-based testing for prioritizing the features and functions to be tested based on importance and likelihood or impact of failure, supporting risk management best practices.

IBM Engineering Test Management works with the Rational DOORS Next Generation requirement management tool. You can link test cases and mark them as suspect whenever requirements are modified.

Engineering Test Management integrates with many test automation tools including Rational Functional Tester. Execute tests with all kinds of tools and collect test results all from a central location.

Test plans clearly describe project quality goals and exit criteria, while tracking responsibilities and prioritized items for verification and validation.

For the main adapters for automotive and other regulated industry please refer to the section "RQM Execution Adapters".

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• Arsin - Integration of Engineering Test Management with Arsin's Effecta for an end to end Business Process Test Automation and Validation. The Integrated solution enhances Test Management, reduces Test Automation effort and increases Test Automation Coverage.
• Device Anywhere by Mobile Complete - Enables access to mobile application testing on more than 2000 real handsets across the globe, while employing RQM to control the execution of tests and keep track of results.
• Finaris - RapidRep execution tool adapter for RQM enables the RapidRep Test Suite RapidRep validates data, such as relational databases, or structured files like CSV or XML.
• Green Hat - GH Tester, an automated validation and virtualization test product enabling agile, efficient management of composite applications relying on legacy, SOA, BPM, and Cloud technologies, allows Engineering Test Management to incorporate GH Tester's control of complex test environments into Rational test management processes.
• iTKO LISA - iTKO LISA is a collaborative enterprise software testing solution for modern, distributed applications, including SOA, BPM, and integration platforms. LISA Test's no-code testing augments your testing practice, allowing teams to rapidly automate functional, unit, regression, and load tests at every application layer.
• Juvander - OffRoad makes test execution possible in disconnected environments. This means that test planning and analyzing are done fully on the IBM Engineering Test Management server, but actual test execution is no longer tied to a certain location or network connection.
• RapidRep - The RapidRep Test Runner allows customers to perform data quality checks, verify database migrations, or compare expected results with calculated results. Data stored in tables (e.g. DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, SQL Server, MS Access...) or even special files like XML or CSV can be used in any combination.
• Wind River - Wind River Test Management users can attach their Test cases to the Quality Manager. Wind River Test Management is a test execution optimization system for embedded devices. It enables unprecedented run-time visibility into devices while under test. The system provides feedback that test teams and their management need.
• Worksoft - Worksoft's Certify execution tool adapter for RQM enables access to automated testing solutions for functional testing of SAP and other enterprise business applications.
• Rational Test Workbench - Integration Testing
• Rational Functional Tester - Functional GUI Testing