Responding to changes in requirements

When requirements are changed or deleted in the requirements source application, the status of the requirement in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager is updated to show the latest requirement status. Test cases that contain requirements that change or are deleted are identified as suspect. By responding to suspect test case, you can adjust test plans and test cases quickly and accurately to respond to requirement changes.

About this task

When you discover that a test case has become suspect because associated requirements changed in the requirements application, you can modify the test case based on the requirement changes.

To modify the test case based on requirement changes:

Procedure

  1. If a requirement has been removed from the requirement source application, you can manually remove that requirement from test plans and test cases by selecting it, and clicking X.
  2. If the requirement is updated, verify whether the association between the requirement and test case is still valid, and then decide whether the association needs to be updated by adding additional test cases, updating test cases, or disconnecting associations between the requirement and the current test cases.

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