Editing a manual test

This section describes how to edit your manual test suite.

You must have created a manual test suite.
  1. In the Navigator double-click the test suite entry to open the Test Suite dialog box as shown below. The test suite opens in the Overview tab with the two edit areas (General Information and Test Cases) expanded.

  2. The General Information area displays the test suite's name, an optional description, test type, and name of the file containing the test suite. You can edit information appearing in boxes.
  3. The Test Cases area lists the individual tests that make up the test suite. Click one of the test cases or More to display the Test Cases view, as shown below.

    To change the name or description of a test case, select the test case and enter new text in the Name or Description boxes. Use the Add and Remove buttons to add test cases and to remove existing cases. Use the Up and Down buttons to change the order of cases.
  4. Click the Behaviors tab to display the Behaviors view, as shown below.

    Behaviors let you control the order in which test cases are run; you do this by specifying invocations and loops. For example, in the figure shown above, test 1 runs inside Loop 1. Use the Number of Iterations box to specify how many times to execute the loop. With Synchronous checked and more than one iteration specified, the loop iterations execute in sequence. With Synchronous unchecked and more than one iteration specified, the loop iterations execute simultaneously.
  5. Use the Up and Down buttons to change the order of invocations and loops. Use the Add and Remove buttons to add and remove loops and invocations. After you create a loop you can add an invocation to it by right-clicking the loop and selecting Add > Invocation. The Test Invocation dialog box, shown below, appears.

    The top pane lists test cases in the test suite. The bottom pane lets you navigate to test cases in other test suites in your workspace. You can nest loops and create invocations that are outside of any loop.

Parent topic: Manual testing with TPTP

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