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Rational Quality Manager

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Product overview
Installing
Integrations
Troubleshooting
References



This roadmap outlines the information resources that are available for IBM® Rational® Quality Manager.


Product overview

These resources provide an overview of IBM® Rational® Quality Manager.


Rational Quality Manager overview (Web site)
This publication introduces you to Rational Quality Manager.

Software testing and quality management (Web site)
This is the home page for Rational software testing and quality management products.

Managing your first project with IBM Rational Quality Manager (Article)
This guide covers basic test planning, reporting, and lab management functions. Coverage is not in-depth and the information focuses broadly on a start-to-finish workflow for using Rational Quality Manager.

Rational Functional Tester v8.0 readme file (Readme file)
A summary of the latest features, functions, and search site for known limitations of version 8.0

Lab management using IBM Rational Test Lab Manager (Article)
This guide is an in-depth look at lab management using Rational Quality Manager. Examples cover lab status, requesting resources, defining access, and creating configurations. The guide also presents examples of workflow and illustrations of common activities.

Get started with Rational Quality Manager (Web site)
This tutorial introduces the basic functions of IBM® Rational® Quality Manager, highlighting some of the key activities of the test management process. It illustrates how to use the test plan as the focal point for your testing activities.

Get started with lab management (Web site)
This tutorial introduces the lab management tool and how it can help you manage the lab resources in your testing labs by providing a way to track your resources and administer lab resource reservations and requests.

Rational Quality Manager page on developerWorks (Web site)
This site contains technical resources and best-practices information for Rational Quality Manager, including articles and tutorials.


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Installing

These resources provide information on downloading and installing Rational Quality Manager.

Installing Rational Quality Manager, version 1.0 (Web site)
This installation information covers all the steps needed to install Rational Quality Manager.

Free trial download of Rational Quality Manager version 1.0 (Web site)
The developerWorks download page for a free trial of Rational Quality Manager version 1.0


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Integrations

These documents provide information on other products that integrate with Rational Quality Manager. Updates for the Migration Utilities can be found in Technote 4020900: Rational Quality Manager Migration Utilities.

Rational RequisitePro (Web site)
The product home page for Rational RequisitePro.

Rational Functional Tester (Web site)
The product home page for Rational Functional Tester.

Rational Performance Tester (Web site)
The product home page for Rational Performance Tester.

Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality (Web site)
The product home page for Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality.

Rational Robot (Web site)
The product home page for Rational Robot.

Rational Test RealTime (Web site)
The product home page for Rational Test RealTime.

Rational AppScan Tester Edition Support (Web site)
The product home page for Rational AppScan Tester Edition Support .

Rational Build Forge (Web site)
The product home page for Rational Build Forge.

Rational ClearQuest (Web site)
The product home page for Rational ClearQuest.

Rational ClearQuest Test Manager (Information center)
You can find more information on Rational ClearQuest Test Manager in the ClearQuest information center.


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Troubleshooting

When a problem occurs, you must determine the scope of the problem and which components are involved. To help you do this, the resources in this section provide information on troubleshooting problems.


Rational Quality Manager, Version 1.0 Release Notes (Web site)
This site contains information about the known limitations of the version 1.0 release.

Rational Quality Manager Express Edition Support (Web site)
This site is a place to search for support documentation, product updates, and contact information for IBM Support.

Rational Quality Manager product downloads (Web site)
This site contains the latest product updates for Rational Quality Manager.

Rational Quality Manager forum on developerWorks (Web site)
This hosted forum offers users a place where they can exchange information about the product.

Rational Software Global User Group community (Web site)
This community brings users of IBM Rational products together together with Rational staff to exchange ideas and information.


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References

These documents provide specific guidance and reference for Rational Quality Manager.

Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with Rational Products (Redbook, web site)
This redbook provides a blueprint for Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management and how the new IBM Rational products support this evolving management model.

Rational Quality Manager page on developerWorks (Web site)
This site contains technical resources and best-practices information for Rational Quality Manager, including articles and tutorials.

IBM Certified Solution Designer (Web site)
This site provides information on how to become an IBM Certified Solution Designer for Rational Quality Manager.

The Rational Edge e-zine (Web site)
This online newsletter delivers the latest ideas on practice leadership to users of IBM Rational products.

IBM Events for Rational Software (Web site)
This site presents upcoming events such as conferences, seminars, technical briefings, trade shows, and Web casts that relate to products in the Rational family of products.

Quality Management - A Strategic Business Advantage (White paper, pdf)
This article covers the strategic business advantage that you can achieve with quality management.

Rational Business Driven Development for Compliance (Redbook, pdf)
This redbook offers information on how to design your processes and solutions using Rational products to manage compliance. The book shows how an organization can apply Rational solutions to achieve a controlled, auditable software development environment to help alleviate some challenges imposed by standards, policies, and regulations.


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