Synchronizing requirements from external tools

Keep requirements created or updated in an external ALM tool automatically synced with Test Manager after you configure a connection.

Requirements created in an external ALM tool appear in Test Manager, and later changes to their name and description carry over. No initial synchronization of existing artifacts runs when the connection is configured.

Context

Keeping requirements from external application lifecycle management (ALM) tools in sync with requirements from Test Manager requires configuring a connection first.

Sobald eine Verbindung ordnungsgemäß konfiguriert ist, werden alle Anforderungen, die im externen Tool erstellt werden, auch im Test Manager erstellt. Der Name und die Beschreibung dieser Anforderungen werden auch synchronisiert, wenn sie im externen Tool geändert werden. Im Test Manager sind diese Attribute schreibgeschützt.

Hinweis:

After a connection to an external ALM system has been configured, no initial synchronization of existing artifacts is performed. This avoids creating large amounts of data in Test Manager with no way to predict how long it would take. However, whenever an object in the external tool is updated, it is created in Test Manager if it does not exist.

For details on how to configure a project to be synchronized with an external ALM tool, see About ALM Tool Connectors.