Test Suite Management
TESTaide provides the feature to create test suites where a suite is treated as a grouping of test cases. It is recommended to use test suites when you need to group test cases instead of using categories. The document provides guides to manage test suites.
To be able to manage test suites, you will need to have the correct permissions, such as Project Manager, Create Plan/TC … . For more information, please refer to Global Permissions.
Note that even if a test case is contained in multiple test suites, the system will consider the test case as different units, operating them separately.
Creating a new test suite
To be able to manage test suites, a project has to have been created beforehand. Having created a project, from the TESTaide homepage, select the project, and on the project page, select the 'Test Suites' menu item on the left-hand side navigation bar.
Then simply, on the test suite page, click the ‘Create Test Suite’ button on the top-right corner of the page.
On the pop-up window, enter the required and any optional information and click the ‘Save’ button at the bottom to complete the test suite creation. Please refer to the table below for more information regarding the test case.
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Project Key | The key of the selected project cannot be entered, it will be automatically filled by the system. |
Test Suite Name | The name of the test suite as it will be listed and displayed as. Note that the maximum length for the name is 50 characters. |
Description (Optional) | Any description that is wanted to provide additional information regarding the test suite. Note that the maximum length for the description is 1000 characters. |
Tags (Optional) | Tags are used to quickly search and find items via the search bar on the header navigation. A tag is created by entering a string of characters followed by pressing the ‘Enter’ key on the keyboard. |
Suite Management
Once a test suite has been created, it will be listed in the table on the ‘Test Suites’ page together with any other suite previously created. You can view and manage the test suite by clicking on the key of the test suite from the table.
Editing an existing test suite
On the test suite detail page, click the ‘More’ button on the top-right of the page and when the drop-down menu appears, select the ‘Edit Suite’ option.
On the pop-up window, edit the test suite information and click the ‘Save’ button at the bottom to save changes.
Note that the ‘Project Key’ & ‘Test Suite Key’ cannot be edited
Deleting a test suite
From the list of test suites available, select the suite you want to remove.
On the test suite detail page, click the ‘More’ button on the top right of the page and when the drop-down menu appears, select the ‘Delete Suite’ option.
When the pop-up window appears, click the 'OK' button to complete the deletion.
Test Case Management
As test suites contain a grouping of test cases meant to correlate to each other for later use, this step requires that test cases have already been created. From the list of test suites, select the test suite you want to add test cases to.
Adding test cases to a test suite
On the test suite detail page, click the ‘Add Test Cases’ button on the top right.
On the pop-up window, select any available test cases that you want to add to the suite and then click the ‘Add Test Cases’ button to complete adding test cases.
Make sure that there is a blue tick on the checkbox, otherwise, the test case will not be added to the suite.
You can also click on the checkbox on the first header column to select all of the test cases available for the project.
Deleting test cases from a test suite
From the list of test suites, select the test suite you want to delete test cases from.
In the test case panel below, click the ‘Remove’ icon besides the test case you want to delete from the test case list
When the deletion confirmation pop-up window appears, click the 'OK' button to complete the deletion.
Changing the test case ordering in a test suite
Test cases are order within the test suite and there are two ways to changing the order of test cases in the suite: A) Dragging & Dropping or B) by using the Up & Down arrows
A) Drag & Drop
Click and hold the ☰ icon in front of the key of the test case you want to change the order of.
Drag the test case and drop it on the desired location in the list.
B) Up & Down arrows
Alternatively, by clicking either the up or down arrow on the 'Action' column for a project, you are able to change the order respectively.