Engineering Test Management for Essential SAFe® 6.0
Use this Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) template to establish a Engineering Test Management environment that contains the artifacts to validate Agile Release Train (ART) features and stories. This template provides an infrastructure with iterations, artifact templates, artifact categories, and a dashboard to support Essential SAFe®.
Iterations
The process template for Essential SAFe® provides a single, testing timeline that defines the ART-level cadence and includes two starter team iterations with multiple planning interval(PI) iterations. Each PI iteration is further divided into multiple sprint iterations.
Artifact templates
Project areas based on this SAFe® process template include the following templates that you can use to create test artifacts:
- SAFe® ART test plan template
- Use to create ART-level test plans and link to ART development plans. Use the child test plans section to link to team-level test plans and roll up team-level quality objectives.
- SAFe® team test plan template
- Use to create team-level test plans and link to team development plans.
- SAFe® test case template
- Use to create test cases for either ART-level or team-level tests, and then link to ART-level features or team-level stories.
- SAFe® test suite template
- Use to create test suites to organize ART-level or team-level tests.
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
Artifact categories
Project areas based on this SAFe® process template include the following test artifact categories
that you can use to classify test artifacts for further querying and reporting:
- Test plan
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- ART level: Indicates which ART a test plan is aligned with.
- SAFe® level: Indicates which level of SAFe® a test plan is aligned with: SAFe® ART, SAFe® Solution Train, SAFe® team.
- Test level: Indicates which level of testing is in scope: Integration, System, Unit, User Acceptance.
- Test case
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- Component: Indicates which part of the system is in the scope of testing.
- Test type: Indicates which kind of test: Functional, Performance, Reliability, Supportability, Usability. These tests are aligned with SAFe® requirement types.
- Test suite
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- Test objective: Indicates the goal of the test suite: Smoke, Initial, Regression, Final.
Dashboard template
Project areas based on this SAFe® process template include a starter dashboard template with the
following tabs:
- My work
- Captures information about the currently logged-in user.
- ART
- Captures information for a single ART in the portfolio, including test plan traceability, execution status, execution trends, and test coverage.
- Team
- Captures information for a single team in an ART, including test plan traceability, execution status, and execution trends.