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The command-line adapter (CLA) provides a quick and simple path for integrating an existing test tool into IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM).

How does it work?

When the CLA starts the execution of a test, it creates a file that can be updated with name/value pairs that describe files/links that should be included in the execution result of that test. When execution of the test has been completed, this file is read by the CLA, and any valid files/links found are included in the execution result.

You can also use custom properties to populate information into the execution results of your CLA tests. This information consists of any name/value pairs you choose. For example, you might want to log the version of your test application and the operating system it’s running on.

Setting up and starting the command-line adapter

With the command-line adapter, a target test machine is used for command-line execution. You can use this command-line adapter if an adapter for your test type is not available. To use the command-line adapter, the target test machine must be set up to run the adapter and the test machine application must be started on the target test machine. After the command-line script is executed, an Execution Result is returned. The Execution Result includes attachments that contain the standard out and standard error information of the test process.

Customizing the command-line adapter

When you use the command-line adapter, you can customize the mapping of the actual results. The application-under-test needs to return an exit that is mapped to a script Actual Results value.

Creating a job that uses the command-line adapter to test an application-under-test

When you use the command-line adapter, you must have at least one application that acts as the application-under-test. The application-under-test needs to return an exit that is mapped to a script Actual Results value.

Running a test with the command-line adapter using local resources

With the command-line adapter, you can use a target test machine for running command-line jobs. After the adapter is registered, you can run scripts by using the command-line execution adapter on the target test machine. Use a command-line adapter if an adapter for your target tests is not available.

On the tester machine, a test case with a command-line test script is created and run. The test produces a Test Execution Result which contains the standard out and standard error of the executed command.

Running a test with the command-line adapter by reserving specific resources

With the command-line adapter, you can use a target test machine for running command-line jobs. After the adapter is registered, you can run scripts by using the command-line execution adapter on the target test machine. Use a command-line adapter if an adapter for your target tests is not available.

On the tester machine, a test case with a command-line test script is created and run. The test produces a Test Execution Result which contains the standard out and standard error of the executed command.

Adding attachments and links to command-line execution results

You can attach files and links to the Result Details section of a command-line adapter execution result.

The process that runs the command-line test includes the qm_AttachmentsFile environment variable, whose value is the full path to a temporary file. The command-line test can update this temporary file to specify files and URLs to attach to the execution result.

Troubleshooting command-line adapter issues

The command-line adapter displays error messages at startup and when commands run.

Read how to install and configure the CLA, create and execute CLA tests, view test execution results and some of the more advanced features of the CLA, including:

• Attaching files and links to the execution result
• Accessing and setting execution variables in CLA tests
• Setting custom properties
• Mapping application exit codes to RQM result codes
• Updating application progress complete values
• Limiting the applications that the CLA can execute

Worksoft Certify® is the industry’s first automated codeless testing solution built specifically for non-technical users to test end-to-end business processes at an enterprise scale. Built to test complex processes that span multiple applications and integrate into modern-day DevOps toolchains, Certify ensures that not only your software works but that your business works. Certify automates the testing of your exact business processes across all your enterprise applications, including Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, Ariba, Workday, SuccessFactors, Siebel, Manhattan, ServiceNow, and many others. This happens seamlessly and as fast as the underlying applications can operate, so you can validate business processes in record time with perfect reliability and consistency. When you integrate your IBM® Engineering Test Management with Worksoft Certify®, you increase your automation capabilities while extending your existing test and validation processes.

The Eggplant Functional IBM Rational Quality Manager Adapter features a quick integration and return of results. Download this adapter and configure this integration to execute an Eggplant Functional test suite from IBM Rational Quality Manager and return the results to a fine-grained level. With this adapter, you can incorporate Eggplant Functional into your continuous integration setup.

You do not need to purchase a separate license from Eggplant to download and configure the Eggplant.

• Test the code of smart products, which might have hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code, for defects.
• Reduce the cost of code defects by identifying them earlier in the development process.
• Mitigate increasing product complexity by tackling quality challenges earlier in the development process.
• Improve efficiency by breaking down the divisions between engineering departments.

• Enables traceability of requirements through test.
• Improves collaboration between product development and quality assurance teams.
• Improves testing efficiency by integrating world-class testing technologies.
• Enhances quality management through dashboarding of test execution.

Overview

IBM Rational Quality Manager is a collaborative, web-based, quality management solution that offers comprehensive test planning and test asset management from requirements to defects. The Jazz platform enables teams to seamlessly share information. It uses automation to speed project schedules and report on metrics for informed release decisions. It can also be purchased as part of the Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution—a set of seamlessly integrated tools: IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational Quality Manager, and IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation.

Rational Quality Manager works with requirements in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation to keep test cases in sync whenever requirements evolve. Rational Quality Manager also integrates with a wide range of test automation tools like IBM Rational Functional Tester, enabling you to run tests and collect results, all from a central location.

But when we will take a look at embedded software development, we will find big specifics because it's used on machines and devices that are not typically thought of as computers. Usually, this kind of software is specialized for the particular hardware that it runs on and has time and memory constraints. It can be exactly described that no or not all functions of such software are initiated/controlled via a human interface, but through machine-interfaces instead. We can point to such similar devices as cars, phones, modems, robots, toys, security systems, pacemakers, TV sets, digital watches, various medical devices, etc. This software can be very simple, such as lighting controls running on an 8-bit microcontroller with a few kilobytes of memory, or can become very sophisticated in solutions such as airplanes, missiles, and process control systems.

IBM Rational Quality Manager supports reliable and flexible integration with testing systems from National Instruments specially designed for use in embedded software development. National Instruments (NI) Test Integration Adapter for IBM Rational Quality Manager software enhances test engineer teams' efficiency by automating NI TestStand sequence execution and reporting from Rational Quality Manager.

Engineering departments create increasingly complex products, and as a result, automobiles, aircraft, medical devices, consumer electronics, and more depend on software driving the hardware components. IBM Rational software and National Instruments integrate development and test environments to help clients with their most important goals:

• Test the code of smart products, which might have hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code, for defects.
• Reduce the cost of code defects by identifying them earlier in the development process.
• Mitigate increasing product complexity by tackling quality challenges earlier in the development process.
• Improve efficiency by breaking down the tasks between engineering departments.

Combining Rational Quality Manager software and National Instruments (NI) TestStand provides comprehensive test case traceability, test case results management, and automated test scheduling and execution. Test results are made available to all teams so that applications can be validated at virtually every point along the development path, from simulation and prototyping, through deployment onto hardware, and integration into the end system. Both operational efficiency and test accuracy can be improved through the ability to reuse test components throughout multiple project phases and even on different projects.

A specially designed piece of software - the NI Test Integration Adapter for Rational Quality Manager software - provides integration between NI TestStand and Rational Quality Manager. This integration product includes the following main features and functions:

The requirement to test traceability: Test engineers can use the integration to link automated tests to test cases and to requirements. NI TestStand applications (and by extension all the code modules called) and parameter files on the test machine are linked to a Rational Quality Manager test case that provides traceability to other project aspects including requirements, overall quality plan, project plan, change-defect management system, and so on.

Test automation: From the web-based interface of Rational Quality Manager, test engineers can invoke the execution of the NI TestStand applications that are linked to the Rational Quality Manager test case. The execution status reported by the NI TestStand sequence is displayed in the Rational Quality Manager web interface as part of the test case execution results. Test engineers can then optionally create defects linked to the test case results to keep track of noncompliance detected by running the test.

Test case results management: Upon completion of the NI TestStand sequence, various outputs from the sequence are automatically published to Rational Quality Manager storage and an HTML report is linked to the Rational Quality Manager test case execution result page. The HTML report is created by this software product on the local machine and the details of the report content as well as what is stored in IBM JazzTM are configured by the user.

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Excellent video about the integration of modeling, requirements, and testing software development areas into the whole software development process with solutions from IBM and National Instruments.