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Align test development with requirements

The requirement changed on Wednesday. The test plan is from the last sprint. Someone will run the wrong thing, or skip the one thing that now matters. The value is that the test follows the requirement the same day, not after the next campaign.

The Colleag workspace in the foreground. In the background a colleague probes a prototype on the test bench.

If the battery requirement changes, which tests must run again?

That is the question the test lead gets in the doorway. Not “do we have a test plan”. But: what is covered, what must be rerun, and what is missing entirely. Colleag.ai reads the requirement against the work instruction and the test spec. You get a list, not a feeling. You will recognise the lab that runs old cases while the new temperature class never made it into the protocol.

The test should follow the requirement the same week

The battery requirement changed on Wednesday. The protocol in the lab is from the last campaign. Someone will run the wrong temperature class, or skip the one case that now matters. The value is the answer to “which tests must be rerun”, not a feeling that “we have a test plan”.

The gap shows before lab time is booked

Colleag.ai maps requirements to test cases in the product tree. When a requirement changes, the cases that are hit are flagged. When a new requirement has no coverage, it shows before anyone sets up the fixture. Draft cases come from how you usually test. The engineer refines. A human approves.

Coverage you can show

Quality and project leads should see what is verified, what is waiting and what is missing, without asking three people. Then verification is no longer the week you discover the temperature class never entered the protocol.

Key benefits

  • Automatic requirement-to-test case mapping
  • Coverage gap detection when requirements change
  • Test plan drafts generated from requirement types and SOPs
  • Real-time visibility into verification status
  • Consistent test methodology across teams and projects

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How do you keep the test plan in sync when a requirement changes in the product files, not in the test manager? Colleag.ai maps requirements to cases and flags the gap. ERP does not know coverage. PLM rarely links tests to requirements in prose. A project tool shows tests as backlog.

A requirement that changes in the product files rarely shows up in the test manager the same day. Colleag.ai maps requirements to test cases and flags the gap before anyone books lab time against the wrong spec.

ERP does not know coverage. PLM rarely links test prose to requirement prose. A project tool shows test as backlog. Here “which tests must be re-run” is an answer against the files, not a meeting.

How this differs from ERP, PLM, LCM and project systems

ERP
ERP has no requirement-to-test chain.
PLM
PLM can point at a test document. It does not say which requirement now has no case.
LCM
LCM does not know which tests died when the revision changed.
Project management systems
A test plan as a sprint is time. Coverage against requirements is Colleag.ai.

What Colleag.ai does here that those systems do not

  • Gaps appear when the requirement changes
  • Draft cases from requirement type and SOP
  • Coverage visible to quality and the project

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