Rational Quality Manager 2.0 beta available‏

Hello

Following your participation in the Rational Quality Manager beta program last year, you might be excited to hear that the Rational Quality Manager 2.0 beta is now available on jazz.net.
Rational Quality Manager provides a centralized test management environment to help increase the efficiency and quality of software delivery by mitigating risk and lowering cost through collaborative ALM for test planning, workflow control, tracking and traceability, and metrics reporting capable of quantifying how project decisions impact and align with business objectives. Rational Test Lab Manager, which is an extended component of Rational Quality Manager, helps to improve the efficiency of the test lab environment and optimize its utilization, cutting workload and saving on test infrastructure.

Also on jazz.net, is the Rational Team Concert 2.0 beta.  IBM Rational Team Concert is a team-aware software development platform that integrates work item tracking, builds, source control, and agile planning. Rational Team Concert interoperates with other products by providing Visual Studio integration and connectors for ClearCase and ClearQuest. Learn more about the capabilities of Rational Team Concert.

We look forward to you trying these latest releases.  Let us know what you think by posting your feedback on the user forums on jazz.net.  The most recent version 1.0 releases for Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager are also available to download from jazz.net.

Happy testing!

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