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Promoting Test Case Results

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Promoting Test Case Results

When you promote a test case result, you indicate that the result is useful to your
project and should be made visible to others. Before you promote a result, it appears
only in the test log.

For example, assume that the required number of test cases passed your testing
criteria for a build to be shipped to beta customers. You consider the test results
"official" and want to include them in Test Case Results Distribution or Test Case
Trend reports. Therefore, you promote the result for each test case that is important
for your testing criteria.

On the other hand, assume that TestManager reports a test case as failed. You
discover that the computer is not plugged in, so the test case could not run--which is
why TestManager reported the failure. A previous test case on that computer passed,
so you promote that test case result because you want to include it in a Test Case
Results Distribution or Test Case Trend report. Therefore, you would not promote the
result of the failed test case, because the result is not significant--and, in fact, is
misleading.

Promotion does not affect the result (pass, fail, informational, or warning). It merely
indicates that the result is significant enough to appear in a Test Case Results
Distribution or Test Case Trend report.

Note:

You must also save the test case results when you close a test log to make the

result appear in a Test Case Results Distribution report after promoting it.

Details Tab

The

Details

tab of the Test Log window contains log events that are generated when

you run a test script, test case, or suite.

Note:

Detailed test results in the Details tab cannot be promoted.

Details tab