Reconciling HP ALM test cases and Rational requirements

After you associate Rational® requirements collections or modules with HP ALM test folders, you can check that each requirement has a corresponding test case. You can then update links to reflect any changes or generate any missing HP ALM test cases and link them to a corresponding requirement. Checking HP ALM test cases and Rational requirements ensures that you have thorough testing coverage and traceability for each requirement.

About this task

Before you can generate test cases for requirements in requirement collections, you must associate requirement collections or modules to HP ALM test folders, see the related links.

Procedure

  1. Locate the HP ALM test folder that you are working with. You can find the test folder from your Rational requirements management dashboard.
    1. From your Rational requirements management dashboard, select Collections > Browse Collections and hover over the collection you are working with.
    2. From the preview, locate the Links section and click the Validated By link to go to the Rational Adapter for HP ALM resource page.

    Validated By link that is selected

  2. Detailed information about the HP ALM test plan you selected is shown, including a link to the Rational requirements collection in the Validates Requirements Collections section.
  3. Click the twistie next to the link to open a rich representation of the collection.
  4. Click Create Test Cases. A comparison is made between the tests in the HP ALM test plan and requirements from the Rational requirements collection. A list of any requirements without test plans is returned.
  5. Select the requirements for which you want to create new test cases and click Create Tests. When the tests are created, they are given the same title and description as the requirement they are linked to and a link between the requirements is also created.

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