Insights with RMsis Custom Reports

Users desire flexibility in reporting, which meets their own Project and Organizational needs. RMsis provides custom reporting feature from version 1.5.0 onwards and this simple yet powerful feature can cover almost 90% of the reporting needs for most users. In this article, we present few possibilities, which represent some of the most common use cases.

Release Management

Requirements and Issues included in a Release

This report can be used to generate raw data for Release Notes OR identifying the Requirements and Artifacts (newly) included in the latest Release. To create this report, choose the following options:

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Incomplete Requirements and Issues

This report can be used to generate a view of Pending Requirements and Issues in the Target Release. To create this report, choose the following options:

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Requirements Management

Filtering High Priority Requirements

To keep track of High Priority Requirements, which should be taken up next for implementation, choose the following options for your report.

Including all the Linked Requirements in a Release

Many a times, a Product Manager is faced with a situation, where he /she wants to ensure that all the low level requirements (in a requirement hierarchy) are included in a release. This ensures that a high level functionality is completely build into the product. The following dependency report can help the Product Manager, identify all the requirements which must be included:

Note : Please note that Depends on / Dependent definition should be uniformly understood and implemented inside the organization.

Test Management

Requirements covered by Test Cases

This report can be used to list down the Requirements covered by Test Cases and hence determine which Requirements are not covered ! testers can use this information to determine additional Test Cases for the identified requirements.

Completeness of Testing for a Release

Before making a release, Product Manager needs to be sure that all relevant tests have been executed and passed. This report can be used to view the list of TC's which were either not executed OR which failed in one of the Test Runs corresponding to a release.