Defects overview

IBM® Rational® Quality Manager provides a powerful set of capabilities for submitting, tracking, and managing defects. You can manage defects within the tool itself or you can integrate with other tools, such as IBM Rational Team Concert or IBM Rational ClearQuest®.

Submitting, tracking, and managing defects

You can submit, track, and manage defects at several stages of the testing process, while performing various test functions. For example, you accomplish these tasks:

Integrating with Rational Team Concert and Rational ClearQuest

You can use the defect work item type that is included with Rational Quality Manager, but you have other options.

If the application under test is being developed in Rational Team Concert, you can manage your defects using defect work items in Rational Team Concert. You will see a representation of the Rational Team Concert defect form whenever you submit a defect, and you can collaborate with the developers who are responsible for fixing the defects.

If your team uses Rational ClearQuest to track defects, you can configure the Rational ClearQuest bridge and use Rational ClearQuest as your defect service provider. Or you can use the Rational ClearQuest Connector to synchronize between the local defect repository and Rational ClearQuest.


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