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Implementing Tests as Suites

Icons in the Test Plan window indicate if a test case or configured test case has an
implementation and whether it is automated or manual. For a configured test case,
the icons also indicate if the implementation was inherited from the parent test case.
The following figure shows some of the icons. For a complete list of the icons, see the
Rational TestManager Help.

Note:

Even if an icon shows that the implementation is automated, the test case could

also have a manual implementation.

Implementing Tests as Suites

Suites are another way to implement tests in TestManager. A suite shows a
hierarchical representation of the tasks that you want to test or the workload that you
want to add to a system. It shows such items as the user or computer groups, the
resources assigned to each group, which test scripts the groups run, and how many
times each test script runs.

When implementing a test as a suite, you can:

Define user or computer groups and apply resources to them specifying where
they run.

Groups are collections of virtual testers that perform similar tasks in the
application.

Test case with automated
implementation

Configured test cases with
automated, inherited
implementation

Test case with manual
implementation

Test case with no
implementation