Adding Quality Goals

Before creating a quality goal, you need create a test custom attribute or requirement custom property of type List that you want to use for your quality goals. Or you can use the requirement fields of Priority, Reviewed, or Risk.

For example, if you want a quality goal to track a requirement custom property with values of High, Medium, and Low, first go to Projects:<Project Name> > Project Settings > Requirement Properties and create a List type custom property that contains these values.

Note: You can only use a property or attribute as a quality goal once per project.
  1. In the menu, click Projects > Project List.
  2. Select a project.
  3. Click Tracking > Quality Goals.
  4. Click Manage Goals. The Manage Quality Goals dialog box opens.
  5. In the New Goal Name field, enter the name for your goal.
  6. In the Attributes/Custom Properties list, select the item that contains the values that you want to use for your quality goal. The list contains the following types of items:
    • Requirement property of type List.
    • Default requirement properties of Priority, Reviewed, or Risk.
    • Test attribute of type List.
  7. Click Add New Goal.
  8. Click Close. The Manage Quality Goals dialog box closes and the new goal is added to the Quality Goals grid.
  9. For each value in the list, enter a numeric value from 0 to 100 in the Percentage of Tests Required to Meet Goal.