Test Plans - Structuring an outline
group descriptions, because they describe a group of tests, not a single test.
For example, in the sample plan shown above, the single descriptive line
contains the QA Organizer statements that implement the test requirements.
The scope of a statement refers to the portion of the testplan where the
statement applies. A statement placed at the group description level applies to
all the test descriptions contained by the group. Conversely, a statement
placed at the test description level applies only to that test description. Levels
in QA Organizer are represented by indentation, and you change the level of
a line by using the Outline/Move Left and the Outline/Move Right
commands, both of which have keyboard, tool bar, and popup menu
shortcuts.
outline. An outline:
by promoting and supporting a top-down approach to test planning
general, through finer and finer levels of detail, to the most specific
be shared by group descriptions or used by just a single test description
the plan and for following the logic of the testplan author
QA Organizer outline using as few or as many levels of detail as you feel are
necessary. To demonstrate the variety of organizational options, this section
presents a series of sample plans, each of which adds successive levels of
description to the outline.
testcase statements that link the descriptions to the 4Test scripts and testcases
that implement the test requirements, though how to establish these links is
not described until "Linking the testplan to scripts and testcases" on page 61.