What is SilkCentral Test Manager?
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What is SilkCentral Test Manager?
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Overview of SilkCentral Test Manager (SCTM)
SilkCentral Test Manager delivers a complete testing solution -
from requirements and test-plan management, to test-execution
management, issue tracking, and reporting.
Today"s e-business systems are increasingly complex, and
reliability is more important than ever. Therefore, assuring
product quality throughout the development cycle is an important
key to success. The best way to check a product"s quality over
time is to perform key tests on a daily basis. SilkCentral Test
Manager helps in this regard by automating test executions that
follow freely configurable schedules, both during product
development and after deployment. By providing reports with
different levels of detail, checking the status of products in
development is as straightforward as checking an HTML report in a
Web browser.
With complex software projects, thorough testing of new builds
is critically important. SilkCentral Test Manager saves time and
man hours by automating this process. Test Manager allows you to
utilize existing SilkTest and SilkPerformer scripts, and creates
scheduled tests based on those scripts. In a few simple steps your
test cases are ready to be run automatically, based on individually
configurable schedules.
Requirements management
As a key component of your complete testing solution,
SilkCentral Test Manager"s Requirements unit enables you to
maintain control over system requirements during development:
managing the creation, modification, and deletion of requirements;
association of test definitions with requirements; change-history
tracking; and the ability to generate test plans directly from
requirement lists. As with all Test Manager functionality, the
Requirements unit is 100% Web enabled and accessible via your Web
browser.
Test plan management
SilkCentral Test Manager"s Test Plan unit enables you to
maintain control over test planning across the system development
lifecycle. The Test Plan unit allows you to create and manage test
plans, including the definition of both automated (SilkPerformer,
SilkTest, JUnit, NUnit, and Windows Scripting) tests and manual
tests. Files and links can be uploaded and associated with test
containers and definitions as attachments. Issues that are
uncovered can easily be associated with the test definitions that
led to their discovery. Full history of all changes to test plans
is also tracked.
Test execution management
The Test Execution unit enables you to configure test scenarios
from the Test Plan unit and to schedule those scenarios for
execution on your execution servers. Test definitions can be
statically assigned to execution definitions or test definitions
can be grouped dynamically using predefined filters on the Test
Plan tree. Custom schedules can be defined for execution
definitions, or predefined schedules can be used.
SilkCentral Issue Manager
SilkCentral Issue Manager, SilkCentral"s issue-tracking
tool, is fully integrated with Test Manager, enabling you to
correlate issues with system requirements and executed tests.
Test-definition issues can be added and managed via the Issues
tab in the Test Plan unit (Test Plan View). See "Managing
Issues" for details.
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