New Testopia feature request (shared test cases repository) for your consideration

[henr...@gmail.com]

Thanks a lot to create excellent Testopia!

As we use it for our test management, I wonder if it's possible for
you add a feature for Testopia to have a test cases repository, so any
test plan could select test cases from it to avoid copy test cases
from old release to new release (as you know lots of regression test
cases are kept unchanged for all releases). And the biggest issue for
current design is as the number of test cases grow, it's easy to
select the test case in wrong test plan.

By current design of Testopia, test case/test run could only
associated with 1 test plan. That means for each new release, a new
test plan need to be created, then copy existing test cases to new
test plan.

Advantage:
- 1 time efforts to copy test cases from old release to new
release;
- test cases and test runs are separated by test plan;
- as long as each tester is clear about the big picture
(product->test plan->test cases/test runs), could find/update test
case in correct test plan, this approach is good enough.

Disadvantage:
- need to copy test cases for each new release, as more
releases come out in future, total test cases number might out-of-
control;
- could see all test cases and test runs from default 'Product
Dashboard' view, easy to get confused when try to find test case in
correct test plan;

Thanks,
Henry

[Nathan Parrish]

For what it's worth, in our organization we have one plan to which
(almost) all cases are linked, our full nightly regression (we employ
a lot of parallelism to keep runtime under 12 hours). For smaller,
focused test plans we will link (not clone) relevant cases to a new
plan, often employing tags to facilitate doing this easily, if not
automatically. This way you can get the run history of a case
regardless of what plan it was run in. We do employ a homegrown
reporting tool for most of our analysis though.

Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse the uncharacteristic use of
capital letters.

On Feb 16, 2011, at 8:31 AM, "henr...@gmail.com"
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