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2. Rational Quality Manager Rational Quality Manager is a collaborative, Web-based tool that offers comprehensive test planning, test construction, and test asset management throughout the software development lifecycle. Rational Quality Manager is designed as a full replacement for IBM Rational Manual Tester, IBM Rational ClearQuest® Test Manager, and IBM Rational TestManager. Rational Quality Manager also provides lab management capabilities that allow to create requests for the test environments specified in test plan.

3. Benefits & Features Best practice risk management – make confident decisions, ( Risk Based Testing will priorities tests based on likelihood or impact of failure) Minimize duplicate team efforts (Duplicate Defect Identification will identify possible issues of overlap in team effort) Set up projects faster (Project Templates allow for pre-population of typical projects with all information already entered i.e. test plan, tool integration set up, test environment information, users, workflow customization) Address line of business expectations (Use advanced and customized reporting to demonstrate ROI metrics and address the requirements of managers and analysts)

4. Clear project goals, criteria and priority tracking (The Dynamic Test Plan feature will report details that evolve with the project, while maintaining static data such as business objectives to ensure the project status is true to current factors yet remains on-track for the bigger picture) Confidence in quality assurance (Work items for all team members are tracked, including ownership for project deliverables so nothing is missed) Easy team collaboration (Built on a Java™ and Web 2.0 technology- based architecture means access straight from a web browser) Thorough, confident testing (1. Manual test authoring captures textual text steps alongside embedded images. 2. Eliminate transcription errors with assisted data entry and validation. 3. Create hybrid manual tests with automated keywords.)

5. Remove administrative burden (Test lab management functionality supports distributed execution across physical and virtual lab machines) Security testing integration (Through Rational AppScan, vulnerabilities in applications can be detected early in the development process) Consistency across Rational products (Common reporting and user administration across collaborative lifecycle management products, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Composer)