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IBM Rational quality management focuses on technologies that deliver automation to realize a continuous and governed process and to ensure process predictability.

To achieve success organizations must balance the competing factors of features, resources and schedules. The goal of quality management is to transform this chaotic rebalancing into a predictable, repeatable process that is coordinated across all members of the software team. The end result is the delivery of quality software, on time and on budget.

Efficiency: Improve productivity and streamline testing process by leveraging automation with keyword driven testing:

  • Improve productivity with keyword testing
  • Enable business domain experts to reap the benefits of test automation without incurring excessive test automation overhead with keyword automation
  • Increase test coverage for any given manual test with data driven testing support
  • Leverage the power of distributed teams with controlled test asset sharing
  • Improve performance modeling with synchronized workload scheduling
  • Facilitate analysis with new comparison reports
  • Generate more load from existing hardware with scalability enhancements

Security and Compliance: Early and continuous security and compliance management for Web-based applications though automated security, vulnerability and compliance testing

  • Ensure transaction integrity Automated validation of web site security
  • Ensure Web site compliance with industry regulations automated audit and remediation
  • Ensure scalability of high security applications with new Entrust support
  • Enable testing of SOA applications secured with proprietary security mechanisms with open security API

Extensibility: Open, modular solutions to ensure flexibility and time to market through extended platform support and Proxy SDK for custom control

  • Enable functional testing of custom controls through open application interfaces
  • Enable performance testing of proprietary protocols through protocol extensibility architecture

Learn more about the new and updated Rational quality management products

 
Highlights

Streamlining the Business Process of Software Quality

Video: Quality Management

White paper: Quality management with IBM - A closed loop fitness program

Trial downloads

Rational Functional Tester

Rational Performance Tester

Rational Tester for SOA Quality

Rational Manual Tester

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