Integrate WinRunner, QuickTest Professional (QTP) with ClearQuest, RequisitePro

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Many organizations use HP Mercury “testing tools” for Quality Assurance. It is also common for organizations to use IBM Rational ClearQuest for defect tracking, and IBM Rational RequisitePro for requirements management. As development processes mature, organizations eventually seek a way to achieve traceability between testing and the rest of their processes and artifacts (defects, enhancement requests, requirements, source code, and design artifacts). This discussion will examine two options available for establishing and maintaining traceability between test implementation tools and IBM Rational ClearQuest and RequisitePro via a test management tool.

To understand the available options, it is necessary to first categorize Mercury’s “testing tools” by function: test management (TestDirector or QualityCenter), versus test implementation (QuickTest Professional, WinRunner, LoadRunner). The IBM Rational equivalents for test management are "standalone" Test Manager, or ClearQuest Test Manager (CQTM) which is part of Rational ClearQuest 7.0. For test implementation, the IBM Rational equivalents are: Rational Functional Tester, Rational Manual Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Tester for SOA Quality, and Rational Robot.

There are two options for bridging Mercury test implementation tools with the rest of the development process, and the choice between the two hinges on whether Mercury is used for test management. However, for organizations which utilize a mixed-vendor test implementation toolset and require official, validated and supported integrations between their test management tool and test implementation tools, there may be only one feasible choice: CQTM.

ClearTrace - Leveraging DOORS Requirements in a Distributed Environment

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Organizations are increasingly mandated to have auditable, automated traceability which links requirements to development, change management, and testing. However, globally distributed environments ("Global Development and Delivery", or GDD) are another prevalent trend. In a not-so-hypothetical situation, requirements are managed by a team in the United States. Development and testing may be performed elsewhere, sometimes in another city within the United States, but more often in an entirely different country.
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ClearTrace for DOORS: Integrating ClearQuest and DOORS

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Built with both ClearQuest and DOORS users in mind, ClearTrace™ for DOORS is commercial software developed by Ring-Zero Software which provides a robust, two-way integration between IBM Rational ClearQuest and Telelogic DOORS. If it is combined with Multi-Site capabilities of ClearQuest, ClearTrace provides an effective mechanism to replicate DOORS requirements between development sites, helping customers to manage geographically distributed software development and testing. This integration fully supports ClearQuest Test Manager (often referred to as "CQTM", IBM's new test management solution built on top of ClearQuest 7.0.)

ClearTrace is described as a system which integrates ClearQuest and DOORS together, rather than as a simple mechanism for creating links between the two, for two reasons:

First, ClearTrace provides simple, native access to data from both DOORS and ClearQuest. When local clients for both are present, users can access cross-environment functionality.
Second, ClearTrace has been designed to provide scaleable access to “real world” data volumes which may span multiple databases.

ClearTrace for DOORS has been validated by IBM as Ready for IBM Rational software.