By Discipline

Testing & Quality Assurance

codeBeamer helps you to manage your test, including defining releases, specifying requirements, planning tests and tracking defects. codeBeamer’s data repository maintains relationships between releases, requirements, test and defects, and provides end-to-end traceability for the testing process.

Beyond on the standard features, a bi-directional integration between codeBeamer and HP Quality Center (formerly known as Mercury) offers proven Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) services extended with mature test management capabilities: codeBeamer artifacts, such as requirements, tasks and change requests can be linked to test results in HP Quality Center.

“Before using CodeBeamer, we had to spend at least one or two hours with customers for conference call each week. …After applying CodeBeamer, the conference call is no longer necessary because everything can be communicated clearly through CodeBeamer, and this has saved us lots of time.”

Specify Releases

The Release manager (called Versions) can manage release plans, where your plan your releases.

Specify Requirements

The Requirements manager be used to define functional, non-functional and other requirements you will test for specific releases.

Plan your Test

Test Planners can plan and describe test cases and test scripts in details, and associate them with requirements and releases.

Manual Testing

Manual Testers (test executors) can insert test records into test trackers, and link test cases to releases, requirements and other artifacts that the actual test executions depend on.

Automated Tests

codeBeamer has a built-in "time machine" to automate periodical jobs, like test executions and builds. Test results are captured by codeBeamer, and can be shared with the collaboration backbone around the test, QA and development teams.

Tracking Defects

Developers receive notifications on tasks assigned to them (such as resolving defects). Also, their changes are linked to defect reports and the related tests. Therefore, full traceability is provided from requirements to testing.

By using codeBeamer Eclipse Studio, requirements, tasks and defects can be directly accessed from the Eclipse IDE in addition to the web interface. It provides easy access for developers to their tasks and defect resolutions spurred by tests.

Testing in the Cloud

Virtualization paired with private clouds offers an efficient approach for testing. codeBeamer is capable of uniquely managing computing units in the cloud for test and simulation purposes.

Cloud based testing is particularly useful when tests are computation intensive, varying in capacity requirements, and when tests must be executed on multiple combinations of hardware and software. For cloud based testing, codeBeamer is integrated with the Eucalyptus Cloud infrastructure (private cloud) and with the Amazon EC2 service (public cloud).