Testing and quality assurance overview

Polarion features that support quality assurance and testing activities include:

  • Project templates: Preconfigured for test management projects, templates include Work Item types to support testing. They provide for easy linking of test case and requirements artifacts for traceability and impact analysis. As with all project templates, templates with test management support can be customized and/or reused with modifications and customizations, after which users can create projects that have the desired custom attributes as defaults.

  • Test Specification: Enables import of existing testing assets and artifacts from Microsoft Excel or Word as well as creation of new testing artifacts. Choose a Document based approach, or a tool based approach, or a combination of both.

  • Test Execution and Automation: Create Test Runs comprised of references to sets of test cases (manual or automated). Execute Test Runs manually or automatically, integrating JUnit tests with the Polarion Build system. Create Test Runs based on the default Test Run Templates, or derive custom Test Run templates from these and create new Test Runs based on your derivative templates.

  • Parametrized Testing: Define Test Parameters in Test Cases, Test Runs, and Test Run Templates that enable an abstract approach to test specifications and efficient running of multiple testing scenarios when executing Test Cases.

  • Integrate with External Testing: Execute testing either manually or automatically. Import results of external testing. You can import manually as needed or automatically import results of external automated tests exported to the xUnit framework's XML format for test results. (xUnit export is supported by many third-party automated testing tools). Automatically create Work Items of the Defect type for developers when tests fail.

  • Workflow and Electronic Signatures: Configure the system and/or projects with workflow control for Test Runs. Transition actions can be configured to require U.S. 21 CFR Part 11 compliant electronic signatures.

  • Excel Round-trip: (Optional) Use the Round-trip for Microsoft Excel feature to export Test Cases for external manual testing and re-import test results stored in the Excel file, automatically creating Defect type of Work Items for developers for failed tests.

  • Reporting: Configure standard dashboards and use dedicated macros in custom wiki pages to create dedicated testing/QA report pages for testing status and results.