VERA Roles
HB Farris
Tx3 VERA provides separate roles to facilitate segmentation of duties. Additional roles can be configured. VERA categorizes user roles into four groups:
- Authors: General users who are responsible for creating new records, editing existing records, and submitting records for approval.
- Approvers: Users with the authority to review records and approve them with an electronic signature.
- Managers: Users with elevated permissions for accessing restricted workflow actions and managing project information and reporting.
- Administrators: Users with elevated permissions for configuring a VERA project in QC/ALM.
Additionally, QC/ALM provides a view-only category of user. Users who are assigned only Viewer permissions will only be able to view data in the QC/ALM project. They will have no ability to create records, edit records, or access VERA actions.
Author Roles
Authors are responsible for creating records, editing records, establishing traceability between records, transitioning records through VERA's workflow, and submitting records for approval.
The following is a brief summary of the standard author roles configured in VERA. More details can be found in Appendix A.
Role | Description |
|---|---|
Requirement Author | Creates requirement folders; authors requirements and risk scenarios. |
Test Designer | Creates test folders; authors test cases. |
Test Set Designer | Creates test set folders; builds test sets. |
Tester | Executes test runs; updates defects. |
[All Authors] | Submits defects; comments on requirements, risk scenarios, test cases, test runs, and defects. |
Approver Roles
Approvers complete approval tasks on records that have been submitted for approval by authors. An approver completes an approval task by either approver the record with an electronic signature, rejecting the record with a rejection reason, or reassigning the task to another qualified approver.
The following is a brief summary of the standard approval roles configured in VERA. More details can be found in Appendix A.
Role | Description |
|---|---|
Business | Completes Business Approval tasks. |
Process Owner | Completes Process Owner Approval tasks. |
Quality | Completes Quality Approval tasks. |
System Owner | Completes System Owner Approval tasks. |
Technical | Completes Technical Approval tasks. |
Validation | Completes Validation Approval tasks. |
[All Approvers] | Submits defects; comments on requirements, risk scenarios, test cases, test runs, and defects. |
Manager Roles
Managers are users with elevated permissions to access restricted workflow actions (revising, obsoleting, deferring records), managing project information and reporting (public reports, project libraries, project releases, etc.), and for managing records after they have been electronically approved.
The following is a brief summary of the standard manager roles configured in VERA. More details can be found in Appendix A.
Role | Description |
|---|---|
Requirement Manager | Moves approved requirements and risk scenarios between folders; revises approved requirements and risk scenarios; obsoletes or defers approver requirements and risk scenarios. |
Test Manager | Moves approved test cases and test sets between folders; revises approved test cases; obsoletes approved test cases and test sets. |
Defect Manager | Opens defects; updates defects; defers and/or closes defects. |
Dashboard Manager | Creates and manages public reports and dashboards |
Library Manager | Creates and manages project libraries and baselines |
Release Manager | Creates and manages project releases and testing cycles. |
[All Managers] | Submits defects; comments on requirements, risk scenarios, test cases, test runs, and defects. |
Administrative Roles
Administrators are users with elevated permissions for configuring the project and managing user access.
The following is a brief summary of the standard administrative roles configured in VERA. More details can be found in Appendix A.
Role | Description |
|---|---|
Requirement Administrator | Reassigns requirement and risk scenario approval tasks; configures the Requirements module in QC/ALM. |
Test Administrator | Reassigns test case, test set, and test run approval tasks; configures the Test Plan, Test Set, and Test Run modules in QC/ALM. |
Defect Administrator | Reassigns defect approval tasks, configures the Defects module in QC/ALM. |
Policy Administrator | Manages the VERA policy files governing the project's business rules. |
User Administrator | Manages user access and user permissions. |
TDAdmin and Site Administrator | Administrates the QC/ALM application. (Standard administrative roles provided by Micro Focus.) |
| [All Administrators] | Submits defects; comments on requirements, risk scenarios, test cases, test runs, and defects. |
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