If you have purchased test case execution hours for your engagement, you will be able to set up and distribute test cases to your testers. The Applause platform has a built-in test case management system for entering test cases and logging execution steps, Pass/Fail results and attachments.

The Test Case Management page lists all of your test cases, test suites and custom fields for filtering test cases.

 

Test Case Statuses in the Applause Platform

The Applause platform supports three statuses for test cases: Draft, Published and Archived.

A newly-created test case, not yet available for testing. You may edit, copy, publish, archive or delete a Draft test case.

The test case is available for testing. You may edit, copy or archive a Published test case. You can also delete it, however only if it is not assigned to an Active or Locked test cycle.

The test case is no longer available for testing, however previous test results collected for it are still available. You may edit, copy, delete or re-publish an Archived test case.

 

Test Case Tabs

The Test Case Management page has three tabs - Test Cases, Test Suites and Custom Fields.

Presents the individual test cases defined under your account. It includes basic information on already-set test cases, such as the status, test suites they belong to and reported issues connected to them.

A quick view will appear on the right side when you click on a test case row. Click on View Details or test case name or ID to open the test case edit page.

You can also search, filter and configure the list and perform batch actions on the test cases.

• You can configure the table to show the Reference Label column. The Reference Label column isn’t sortable and multiple values of the column will be separated by a comma “,”. Reference is used to attach an external document, story or link related to a certain test case.

The following batch actions are available on the test cases:

• Copy allows you to copy test cases to the same product or a different product; specify a test suite if necessary and the number of copies you would like to create.
• And you can Publish the selected draft or archived test cases.
  • Note, that only published test cases can be added to test cycles.
• Archive is to unpublish and archive the selected published test cases.
• Use Discard to delete a test case from the test cases list.
  • However, you can do so only if you have never used the test case in any test cycle.
  • If you have already used the test case, you won’t be able to delete it and a message will show up informing you that the chosen test case cannot be deleted because it’s currently being used in an Active, Locked or Closed cycle.
• Export to CSV allows you to export a test case to a CSV file, and you can use the file to import it later if needed. For more details on importing test cases see the Import Test Case article.
• Update Automation Candidate allows you to update the “Is Automation Candidate” value.
• Update Test Suites allows you to add or remove the selected test cases from specific Test Suites.
• Update Custom Fields - If there are custom fields, you can add or update the custom fields.
• Export To Test Rail allows you to export the selected test cases to TestRail if the TestRail Test Case Management tool has been configured in the Applause platform.
• Add to Cycle allows you to add the selected certified test cases to a selected cycle.
  • If the created test cases are not yet reviewed and certified by your Applause Management Team, you will get an error message on adding them to the cycle.
  • When adding more than 20 test cases, you can keep working while the request is being processed asynchronously, and you can view the progress. You will be notified on the completion via a toast at the top of any page.

Presents the various test suites defined under your account. In the Applause platform, test suites are collections of test cases. This gives you a way to organize your individual test cases for storage and tester execution.

Also inside a test suite, test cases can be organized by folders. To put a test case into a folder, simply drag and drop it under the folder.

 

The Test Case Custom Fields is for filtering test cases. It can be used when there are a lot of test cases and you want to filter them by some parameters.

Test Case Custom Fields may be of the following types: Single Select, Multi Select, and Free Text.