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NilsN1-Visitor
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February 5, 2018
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Managing large amounts of test cases effectively

  • February 5, 2018
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Hi all,

 

We are currently investigating how to organize large amounts of test cases. One of the challenges we face is that we have divided our test cases into many so-called "test sets". These test sets for example divide test cases into regression and complete test sets, but they may as well be in both sets. Also, we use test sets in case test cases are applicable for various system configurations.

 

My question is, does anyone have experience in managing test cases over multiple sets? I guess the brute force (and error-prone!) method would be to create test groups for each test set, but I'm very curious if there are examples of more elegant ways to do this?

 

Regards, Nils

 

 

 

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    VolkerEckardt17-Peridot
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    February 5, 2018

    Hello Nils.

    before I give a longer answer one clarification:

    With Test Groups you mean the Test Group Document or Just a Heading in an existing Test Document?

    You know that this Test Group Document is technically speaken just an Integrity branch, where you get new IDs for every (!) Test Case when you add one?

    Volker

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    NilsN1-VisitorAuthor
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    February 6, 2018

    Hi Volker,

     

    Thanks for your reply. I was indeed thinking to use Test Group Documents for this purpose. From within a Test Group Document it is possible to include Test Protocols, without giving the test cases a new ID, right? (Content - Include - Document.. )

     

    Regards, Nils

     

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    VolkerEckardt17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    February 6, 2018

    Hi Nils,

    ah, you do it that way. Ok.

    Then you have to create lots of Test Protocol Documents to cut all the test cases into manageable small pieces.

    The alternative is to group the test cases using headings.

    By classification Attributes you can then filter a document (or multiple documents) inside a test project and get as a return for example all headings that are related to Regression testing.

    Then you drag-drop the result set (the multiple headings) into your test session.

    The next time you can filter by a flag called Integration testing. As a result you will get all headings related to this test type, and then the same step again: select them and drag-drop into a new Test Session.

    The Beauty with this approach is that you always get additional test cases when added. (because the Heading will automatically take all childs.)

    I would need to know more Details about your particular use case to suggest perhaps alternatives.

    But this is from my perspective one of the easiest Option to handle also large numbers of test cases.

    Let me know what you think about it.

    Volker

     

     

     

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