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Procedure documentationWorking with Quality Gates

Prerequisites

You have defined the quality gates that you want to manage with quality gate management. For more information, see Setting Up Quality Gates and Assigning Phases.

Procedure

To work with quality gates, proceed as follows:

  1. In the scenario overview table, select the scenario for which you want to display or change quality gate data.

  2. Open the quality gate dialog box in one of the following ways:

    • On the Calendar View tab page, click the colored icon in the timeline.

    • To open the active quality gate, click the date in the Next Gate column in the overview table.

  3. Change the value for your role (either QM or QAB).

  4. Optional: Enter any supporting information regarding your decision in the comments box and upload supporting documents. This information is visible to anyone who can view the quality gate status.

  5. Optional: Choose the Status Change Log pushbutton to view individual changes.

  6. Save your settings by choosing the OK pushbutton.

Quality Gate Statuses

When you change the status of a quality gate, the fields that are ready for input change dynamically. Both the quality manager (QM) and the member of the quality advisory board (QAB) must set the quality gate to Passed before the process can continue.

The following statuses can be set by the quality manager and the quality advisory board member for each quality gate:

Status

Meaning

Initial

No status has been set yet.

Partially Passed

Some minor points are still open in this phase but they are not expected to delay the change cycle or release.

Passed

The process can continue to the next phase.

Not Passed

The process cannot continue to the next phase and the ensuing problems must be resolved first.

The system sets the overall status for the quality gate based on the statuses set by the quality manager and the member of the quality advisory board. The following matrix shows the various combinations of status values that the persons responsible can set, and the result calculated by the system.