Merlin's Other Cave

  New Quick Start: Getting Started with Method Composer IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Method Composer (MEC) is a tool platform that enables process engineers and managers to implement, deploy, and maintain processes for organizations or individual projects.  MEC provides a knowledge base of intellectual capital which you can browse, manage and deploy. MEC is designed to be a content management system that provides a common management structure and look and feel for all of your content, rather than being a document management system in which you would store and access hard to maintain legacy documents all in their own shapes and formats. MEC also provides powerful automation to enact practice content by deploying it as a set of work items in IBM Engineering Workflow Management so that tasks may be assigned to engineers. This helps project leads by speeding up deployment of complex projects. Such deployed tasks automatically have links back to the practice content, pr...

 Overview You probably already know that in IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM) you can create:  Manual test scripts - where the tester manually walks through a set of steps, and Automated test scripts - Where the test invokes some external testing tool that executes and then returns a result and (optionally) files / URLs But did you know that you can combine them by using Keywords ?  Keywords Despite the rather odd name, Keywords are a way of re-using test scripts.  A Keyword has a related test script - which can be manual or automated. Keywords can then be inserted as a step into any other test script, effectively re-using the test script associated with that Keyword. We can even see where Keywords (and their associated test scripts) have been used:  This Keyword for example, is associated with a test script that uses the command line to invoke an external test (in this case its a simple batch file) We can insert that Keyword as a step inside a manual test...