Requirements

Requirement is a rule defined for a project or a product.

In most IT projects, requirement can be a functional rule for a software.

It allows to define and monitor cost and delays.

It can be linked to test cases, it’s used to describe how you will test that a given requirement.

Requirements screen

Requirements screen

Rights management

Linking requirements to a project will limit the visibility, respecting rights management at project level.

Requirement link to test cases

Test cases can be linked to a requirement in List of test cases.

List of test cases section

List of test cases section

  • Click on Add to add a test case that will cover the requirement or part of the requirement.

Add a test case

Add a test case

  • Click on button icon search to search for an item that is not in the list

  • Click on New to create a new item from the popup

Linking a requirement to a test case will display a summary of test case run (defined in test session). This way, you will have an instant display of test coverage for the requirement.

Summary test cases

Summary test cases

This section summarizes the status of test case runs to requirement and test session.

  • test run Planned Planned: No test failed or blocked, at least one test planned.

  • test run passed Passed: All tests passed.

  • test run failed Failed: At least one test failed.

  • test run blocked Blocked: No test failed, at least one test blocked.

Requirement

Summarizes the status of test case runs for test cases are linked to the requirement.

Because a test case can be linked to several test sessions, total can be greater than linked to the requirement.

Test session

Summarizes the status of test case runs in the test session.

Requirement link to tickets

  • When test case run status is set to failed, the reference to a ticket must be defined (reference to the incident).

  • When the requirement is linked to a test case with this run status, ticket is automatically linked to the requirement.

Predecessor and successor elements

  • Requirements can have predecessors and successors.

  • This defines some dependencies on the requirements.

  • The dependencies don’t have specific effects. It is just an information.

Monitoring indicator

Possibility to define indicators to follow the respect of dates values.

  • Respect of validated end date

  • Respect of planned end date

  • Respect of requested start date

  • Respect of validated start date

  • Respect of planned start date

  • % final use of validated costs (revised/validated)

  • % final use of assigned work (revised/assigned)

  • % final use of validated work (revised/validated)

  • % final use of assigned work (revised/assigned)

  • % progress of validated work (real/validated)

  • % progress of assignated work (real/assigned)

  • % real progress

Description

Required fields Required File legend

Field

Description

Id

Unique Id for the requirement

Required File Name

Short description of the requirement.

Required File Requirement type

Type of requirement.

Project

The project concerned by the requirement.

Product

The product concerned by the requirement.

External reference

External reference for the requirement.

Requestor

Contact who requested the requirement.

Origin

Element which is the origin of the requirement.

Urgency

Urgency of implementation of the requirement.

Initial due date

Initial due date.

Planned due date

Planned due date.

Required File Description

Long description of the requirement.

Treatment

Required fields Required File legend

Field

Description

Top requirement

Parent requirement, defining a hierarchic structure.

Required File Status

Actual status of the requirement.

Responsible

Resource who is responsible for the requirement.

Criticality

Level of criticality of the requirement for the product.

Feasibility

Result of first analysis to check the feasibility of the implementation of the requirement.

Technical risk

Result of first analysis to measure the technical risk of the implementation of the requirement.

Estimated effort

Result of first analysis to measure the estimated effort of the implementation of the requirement.

In progress

Box checked indicates the requirement is taken over.

Done

Box checked indicates the requirement has been treated.

Closed

Box checked indicates the requirement is archived.

Cancelled

Box checked indicates the requirement is cancelled.

Target version

Version of the product for which this requirement will be active.

Result

Description of the implementation of the requirement.

Lock

A requirement can be locked to ensure that its definition has not changed during the implementation process.

Lock/Unlock requirement

  • Button to lock or unlock the requirement to preserve it from being changed.

  • Only the user who locked the requirement or a habilitated user can unlock a requirement.

Requirement locked

  • When a requirement is locked the following fields are displayed.

Fields when the requirement is locked

Field

Description

Locked

Box checked indicates the requirement is locked.

Locked by

User who locked the requirement.

Locked since

Date and time when the requirement was locked.

Vote on requirement

It is possible to vote on requirement. In the detail tab of each requirement, find the voting section. The target value, current value, number of votes and fill rate are displayed.

Click on the vote button to assign a vote on the selected item.

Voting section

Voting Section

In the voting window, several pieces of information such as the maximum point limit of the vote that you can use on the vote of the item in question.

Your personal vote which is not necessarily identical to the maximum points that you can award.

And finally the number of points that you have left to spend in the period of use set upstream in the rules for awarding and using votes.

Voting pop-up

Voting pop-up

Once you have validated your vote, if the specific access dedicated to voting have been activated, a table appears to display the names of the voters and the points that each of them has assigned to the element.

If several people have voted, the cumulative number of their points is displayed in the current value.

You continue to see the number of your points already assigned, directly in the vote button or in the table if you have the right to see it.

In the specific access, if the display of the table is deactivated, you can display at least the names of the voters.

In any case, the names of the voters and the points they have assigned are necessarily displayed in the table.

Voting table

Voting table

Test cases

Test cases are elementary actions executed to test a requirement.

You may define several tests to check a requirement, or check several requirements with one test.

The test case is defined for a project, a product or one these components.

Test cases screen

Test cases screen

Rights management

  • Linking test case to a project will limit the visibility, respecting rights management at project level.

Predecessor and successor elements

  • Test case can have predecessors and successors.

  • This defines some dependencies on the test case.

  • Dependencies don’t have specific effects. It is just an information.

Description

This section allow you to describe the test to run.

Fields Project and Product

  • Must be concerned either with a project, a product or both.

  • If the project is specified, the list of values for field “Product” contains only products linked the selected project.

Field Version

  • Contains the list of product and component versions available according to the project and product selected.

Field Environment (Context)

  • Contexts are initialized for IT Projects as “Environment”, “OS” and “Browser”.

  • This can be easily changed values in Contexts screen.

Field Description

  • The description of test case should describe the steps to run the test.

Treatment

Field

Description

Parent test case

Parent test case, defining a hierarchic structure for test cases.

Required File Status

Actual status of the requirement.

Responsible

Resource who is responsible of the test case.

Priority

Level of priority for the test case.

In progress

Box checked indicates the test case is taken over.

Done

Box checked indicates the test case has been treated.

Closed

Box checked indicates the test case is archived.

Cancelled

Box checked indicates the test case is cancelled.

Prerequisite

List of steps that must be performed before running the test.

Expected result

Description of expected result of the test.

Test case run

Test case run

Test case run

  • test run Planned Planned: Test to be executed.

  • test run passed Passed: Test passed with success (result is conform to expected result).

  • test run blocked Blocked: Impossible to run the test because of a prior incident (blocking incident or incident on preceding test) or missing prerequisite.

  • test run failed Failed: Test has returned wrong result.

This section allows to display a complete list of test case runs. These are links of the test to test sessions. This list also displays the current status of the test in the sessions.

Fields - Test case runs list

Field

Description

Test session

Composed of session type, Id and description.

Status

Current status of the test case run in the test session.

Test sessions

Test session screen

Test session screen

A test session defines the set of tests to be executed to achieve a given objective, such as covering a requirement.

Define in the test case runs all test cases will be running to this test session.

For each test case run sets the status of test results. (See: Test case run status)

The test session is defined for a project, a product or one these components.

Rights management

  • Linking test session to a project will limit the visibility, respecting rights management at project level.

Test sessions regroupment

  • Test session can have parents to regroup test sessions.

Planning element

Predecessor and successor elements

  • Test sessions can have predecessors and successors.

  • This defines some dependencies on test cases or planning constraints.

Monitoring indicator

Description

Field

Description

Id

Unique Id for the test session.

Required File Name

Short description of the test session.

Required File Session type

Type of test session.

Project

The project concerned by the test session.

Product

The product concerned by the test session.

Version

Version of the product or component concerned by the test session.

External reference

External reference for the test session.

Description

Complete description of the test session.

Treatment

Field

Description

Parent activity

Parent activity, to define hierarchic position in the Gantt.

Parent session

Parent session, to define session of sessions.

Required File Status

Actual status of the test session.

Responsible

Resource who is responsible of the test session.

In progress

Box checked indicates the test session is taken over.

Done

Box checked indicates the test session has been treated.

Closed

Box checked indicates the test session is archived.

Cancelled

Box checked indicates the test session is cancelled.

Result

Summary result of the test session.

Test case runs

Test case run section

Test case run section

This section allows to manage test case runs.

Test case runs list management

  • Click on Add to add a test case run. The Test case run dialog box will be appear.

  • Click on Button edit to edit a test case run. The Test case run detail dialog box will be appear.

  • Click on Delete to remove a test case run.

  • Click on test run passed to mark test case run as passed.

  • Click on test run failed to mark test case run as failed. The Test case run detail dialog box will be appear.

  • Click on test run blocked to mark test case run as blocked.

Fields - Test case runs list

Field

Description

Test case

Information about test case (type, Id and name).

Detail

Detail of test case.

Status

Status of test case run.

Note

  • When status is set to failed, the reference to a ticket must be defined (reference to the incident).

  • The referenced ticket is automatically added in linked element.

  • Field ticket appear only whether status of test case run is failed.