The tool is tightly integrated with JIRA ecosystem and as a consequence users have the same user credentials as maintained by JIRA. Please note that
- RMsis also defines many other roles, so as to give a more fine grained control to users on the application.
- It also provides the facility to define custom roles.
From 1.5.1-r69 onwards, RMsis defines and this document assumes the following default roles:
User defined in RMsis | Default Role Description |
Administrator | - Installs the system and manages, licenses, database backup, system upgrades etc
- Identifies the system users.
- Defines the access rights against a role.
- Assigns users to projects.
** Please note that from RMsis 1.5.1-r69 onwards
- Administrator has all the rights (regarding a project in RMsis) by default.
- However the Administrator should be assigned at least one role in JIRA configuration (ex. jira-users) for this project.
- These rights have to be explicitly turned off, if the Project Manager / Senior Managers want to give only a limited access to the Administrators.
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Product Manager / Project Manager / Project Lead / Requirement Manager (as referred to in this document) | - Owns all the requirements and artifacts mapped to the requirements.
- Schedules releases and assigns requirements to the same,
- Maintains an oversight of the product / project.
- Assigns the role to users.
- Defines the Baselines.
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Team Member | - Can contribute requirement(s)
- Reviews the requirement(s) and can comment on the same.
- Refers to the requirements for other downstream activities.
- Can view Tests and Test Runs
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| Analyst | - Can create, update and delete requirements.
- Map requirements to Baselines.
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| Test Manager | - Owns all Validation artifacts, including Tests and Test runs.
- Defines, composes and commits Test Runs.
- Manages artifacts associated with tests.
- Can manage references to requirements.
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| Testing Team Member | - Can create, update and delete tests.
- Assign tests to test runs
- Can manage artifacts associated with tests.
- Can manage references to requirements.
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| Tester | - Executes the tests.
- Can log issues against a Test Case in Test Run.
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Customer | - Has limited RW access, as defined by the administrator.
- Can contribute requirement(s)
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These users can map into various designations / roles for your specific context. Some examples of this mapping are enumerated below:
User defined in RMsis | Context | Equivalent Roles |
Project Manager / Project Lead | Agile (Scrum) teams | Product Owner, who is generally responsible for consolidating, analyzing and allocating requirements. |
All other roles | Agile (Scrum) teams | - Team Member.
- Scrum Master will be a part of the team and will be allocated a set of requirements (as sprint backlog) by the Product Owner.
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| Customer | Agile (Scrum) teams | Stakeholders. |
Default Set of Permissions
Default permissions and their assignment to roles is specified at Permissions, and their assignment to Roles.