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Associating a Configuration with a Test Case

Chapter 2 - Planning Tests

Associating a Configuration with a Test Case

After you've created configurations, you can associate a configuration with a test case
to create a configured test case.

Configured test cases are useful when you need to validate that a piece of
functionality works under various configurations. For example, suppose you have a
test case that says, "Close the application." You need to validate that the test case
passes on two configurations: Windows 2000 with Internet Explorer 4, and Windows
2000 with Netscape 4. You could create two configured test cases associated with the
main test case. In order for the test case to pass, all of its configured test cases need to
pass.

After you run the configured test cases, create a Test Case Results Distribution report
filtered on the specific configurations that interest you. For information about reports,
see Reporting Results on page 173.

You can associate a configuration with a test case in several ways:

When creating a new test case, click the

Iterations - Configurations

tab in the New

Test Case dialog box.

When editing the properties of an existing test case, click the

Iterations -

Configurations

tab in the Test Case Properties dialog box.

In the Test Plan window, right-click a test case and click

Associate Configuration

Select the configurations to associate.

Note:

For detailed procedures, see the TestManager Help.

You can also associate configurations with test plans and test case folders. When you
associate a configuration with a test plan or folder, the configuration is automatically
associated with all new test assets that are direct children of that plan or folder. When
you associate a configuration in the Test Plan window, you can also associate the
configuration with all of the existing children of the test plan or folder. For more
information, see Inheriting Iterations and Configurations from a Test Plan on page 35, and
Inheriting Iterations and Configurations from a Test Case Folder on page 37.