FAQ-QA Test Management
How to perform round-trip editing of test cases in Excel, and importing or exporting test cases from Excel or Word?
How to turn off timing of test runs?
The test-runner measures the time it takes to run each individual test case during the runs. It then saves this time to the test runs. This feature helps the test team to estimate how long a testing effort will take the next time it is executed.
Sometimes this feature is not required. In such cases, this feature can be disabled completely by turning it off in the general.xml file. To do this, update the setting allowTiming setting to false in the test management section of the general.xml file. For example,
<testManagement ... allowTiming="false" ... ></testManagement>
When the timer is turned off, the following behavior occurs:
• The timer control does not appear on the test runner dialog.
• No time information is collected and saved. As a result, the run-time of tests is always displayed as 0.
I do not want to use the "Blocked" result. How can I disable it?
You can turn off the Blocked result globally by configuring it in the general.xml file. You can do this by updating the testRunnerShowsBlock setting to false in the general.xml file. Alternatively, you can also remove this from an individual test run tracker by turning off the Blocked state in the workflow for that tracker.
Turning off blocked results using general.xml file
<testManagement ...
testRunnerShowsBlock="false"
></testManagement>
I do not want to allow the End Run button in the test runner dialog. How can I remove it?
You can turn off the End Run button globally by configuring it in the general.xml file by setting the value of the testRunnerShowsEndRun setting to false. Alternatively, you can remove the End Run button from an individual test run tracker if you turn it off in the workflow for that tracker.
Turning off end run button using general.xml file
<testManagement ... testRunnerShowsEndRun="false" </testManagement>
I want to set up test management defaults globally. How can I do that?
The global default options are configurable in the general.xml file as follows:
<testManagement ... runOnlyAcceptedTestCases="true" createTestRunForEachTestCase="false" includeTestsRecursively="false" testRunnerShowsBlock="true" testRunnerShowsEndRun="true" </testManagement>
The explanations for the above are as follows:
runOnlyAcceptedTestCases
—Determines whether the test management runs only Accepted TestCases.
createTestRunForEachTestCase
—When creating test runs,this setting determines whether a test run is created for each test case.
includeTestsRecursively
—Determines whether the test case’s children should be included as default
testRunnerShowsBlock
—Determines whether the test runner shows the BLOCK button.
testRunnerShowsEndRun
—Determines whether the test runnershows the END RUN button.
canChangeRunOnlyAcceptedTestCases
—Determines whether the test manager can choose between to run.