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Lesson 2.1: Add a new requirement to the test plan

This lesson starts midstream in the test planning process, the point when you add a new requirement to the test plan.
The test plan is the focal point for all of your testing activities for a particular test cycle; it can contain multiple test cases that describe the scenarios that you are going to test. Requirements help you to ensure life-cycle traceability because you can link the test cases with requirements in the test plan. In this lesson, you log in as the test architect and add a new requirement to the test plan.
  1. Log in as the test architect (Userid: amy, Password: amy) when prompted with the login dialog box. Amy's dashboard opens.

    With a dashboard, you get an overview of project information and have easy access to more complete information. Dashboards are composed of viewlets, which are small views that display different facets of the project. You use the Viewlet Chooser to customize your dashboard by adding, configuring, and editing viewlets.

    Note: You can rearrange the dashboard by dragging viewlets. Drag the My Tasks viewlet to the upper, right corner of the dashboard.
    Tip: To add, configure, and edit viewlets, open the Viewlet Chooser by clicking the Add Viewlet (Add viewlet) icon from the upper, right corner of the dashboard.

    Home page for the test architect

  2. Open the Classics Java™ Test Plan, by pointing to Planning (Planning), and clicking View Test Plans. From the list of test plans, click Classics Java Test Plan in the name column. The test plan opens in the test plan editor.
    Note: You can select Show All Sections at the end of the Table of Contents to open all sections.
    Tip: Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the sections of the test plan.
  3. Click Requirements in the test plan Table of Contents.
  4. To create a requirement, click the Add New Requirement icon (Add new requirement).
    Important: You can use the installed requirement sample to decrease the time it takes you to complete this lesson. Click the Add Requirement(s) icon (Add requirement), and select New Customer Order Requirement (Sample). Skip steps 5 and 6.
  5. When the window opens, type the following information:
    1. In the Summary field, type New Customer Order Requirement.
    2. Leave the default for the Severity field as Normal.
    3. In Owned By field, assign the requirement to the test manager, Mary. You might need to search for Mary by clicking More, and then typing mary in the search field.
    4. In the Tags field, type new, order, classics, java.
    5. In the Description field, type Test the functionality of the Classics Java ordering system.
    6. Click Save.
  6. The new requirement is created and automatically associated to the Requirements section of the test plan.

    Requirements section of the test plan

  7. Save the test plan.
In the next lesson, you continue as the test architect and begin the review process.
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