Rational Robot FAQ

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What's TestManager
Rational TestManager is the one place to manage all testing activities--planning, design, implementation, execution, and analysis. TestManager ties testing with the rest of the development effort, joining your testing assets and tools to provide a single point from which to understand the exact state of your project.
Test Manager supports five testing activities:
1. Plan Test.
2. Design Test.
3. Implement Test.
4. Execute Tests.
5. Evaluate Tests.

Test plan
Test Manager is used to define test requirements, define test scripts and link these requirements and scripts to your test plans (written in word).

Test plan - A test plan defines a testing project so it can be properly measured and controlled. The test plan usually describes the features and functions you are going to test and how you are going to test them. Test plans also discuss resource requirement and project schedules.

Test Requirements
Test requirements are defined in the Requirement Hierarchy in TestManager. The requirements hierarchy is a graphical outline of requirements and nested child requirements.
Requirements are stored in the requisite pro database. Requisite Pro is a tool that helps project teams control the development process by managing and tracking the changes of requirements.

TestManager includes a baseline version of Requisite Pro. The full version with more features and customizations is available in the Rational Suite TestStudio.

TestManager's wizard
TestManager has a wizard that you can use to copy or import test scripts and other test assets (Datapools) from one project to another.

How TestManager manage test logs ?
When a robot scripts runs the output creates a test log. Test logs are managed now is the TestManager application. Rational now allows you to organize your logs into any type of format you need.

You can create a directory structures that suites your need Create build names for each build version (or development) Create folders in which to put the build in.

What's TestFactory
Rational TestFactory is a component-based testing tool that automatically generates TestFactory scripts according to the application’s navigational structure. TestFactory is integrated with Robot and its components to provide a full array of tools for team testing under Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 95.
With TestFactory, you can:
--Automatically create and maintain a detailed map of the application-under-test.
--Automatically generate both scripts that provide extensive product coverage and scripts that encounter defects, without recording.
--Track executed and unexecuted source code, and report its detailed findings.
--Shorten the product testing cycle by minimizing the time invested in writing navigation code.
--Play back Robot scripts in TestFactory to see extended code coverage information and to create regression suites; play back TestFactory scripts in Robot to debug them.

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