Assigning reviewers and approvers

As part of a formal test plan or test case review process, you must assign team members to be reviewers or approvers.

Before you begin

Note: Only users who have been granted permission can add reviewers and approvers. Permissions are controlled in Jazz Project Administration. In addition, the users whom you assign as reviewers and approvers must be members of the project to which the test plan or test case belongs.

About this task

To assign reviewers and approvers:

Procedure

  1. Open a test plan or test case.
  2. Click Formal Review.
  3. Click the Add Approvers/Reviewers icon (Add).
  4. Select the Review Type (Approver or Reviewer).
  5. Type a name or the first few characters of a name to load the complete list of users in the project. You can use * and ? as wild card characters.
  6. In the Matching users field, click the user name of the person to assign as a reviewer or approver.
  7. To add that single user, click Add & Close; to add multiple users, click Add after each addition.
  8. When the test plan or test case is ready to be reviewed, select Ready for Review from the Action list at the top.

    This changes the artifact state from Draft to Under Review

  9. Click Save.

Results

Each team member who is identified receives a Task-Review work item to review or approve the test plan or test case. The status of each person's review is listed as Pending. After each member completes the work item, the owner can click History to track the review history.

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