What's new in Engineering Test Management 7.1

Learn more about what’s new and changed in Engineering Test Management 7.1.

Name uniqueness

Enforce name uniqueness for configurations
The Enforce name uniqueness for configurations option is added to check whether the name that is created for a new configuration in a component is unique to that component. The new option is available in the Manage Project Properties > Configuration Management Preferences when the project area is in full Configuration Management mode.

Change in product type names

Update label for Rational tools to DevOps
On the Test Script creation page in the Engineering Test Management web user interface, the following names of the test script types are updated.
  • DevOps Test Workbench to DevOps Test Workbench
  • Rational Functional Testerto DevOps Test UI
  • Rational® Performance Test Server to DevOps Test Performance
  • Rational Test RealTimeto DevOps Test Embedded
  • Rational Integration Tester to DevOps Test API
  • Rational Service Tester to DevOps Test Performance for SOA Quality

SAFe® templates

SAFe® 6.0 Full and Essential templates

The SAFe® methodology is an industry-standard framework for helping organizations scale agile and lean practices to the enterprise level. Now, SAFe® Full and Essential templates are available to establish a Engineering Test Management environment that contains artifacts to validate cross-solution train portfolio epics, cross-Agile Release Train (ART) capabilities, and ART features and stories in the scope of a solution trains portfolio of one or more ARTs and its teams.

The following artifacts are updated to align with SAFe® 6.0 recommendations:
  • Artifact categories for test plans
  • Artifact templates for SAFe® related test plan
  • Time lines
  • Updated roles and permissions to empower teams and clarify responsibilities
Note: In SAFe® 6.0, the following terminology changes are introduced:
  • Program increment with planning interval
  • Solution with solution train
  • Program with ART
  • Solution epic with solution train epic
  • Program epic with ART epic
Important: In Engineering Test Management 7.1, when you create a project by using a localized version of the SAFe 6.0 Full or Essential template, the project is created in English. For more information, see For more information, see Known issues for Engineering Test Management 7.1

What's new in other Engineering Lifecycle Management applications

For information about new features and functionality in other Engineering Lifecycle Management application, see the following topics: