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.

Una vez que una conexión se configura correctamente, cualquier requisito que se crea en la herramienta externa también se crea en Test Manager. El nombre y la descripción de esos requisitos también se mantienen sincronizados cuando se cambian en la herramienta externa. En Test Manager, estos atributos son de solo lectura.

Nota:

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.