Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Great question, Ranjitha. I cannot determine any way to see this information from within the GUI itself, although it's possible you could create a custom BIRT or Velocity report to find this information. Archiving a Test Plan is really meant to keep those results out of your hair and enable the ability to execute runs off of those test cases again (if need be). It sounds like we're in new feature territory, so I think the best thing in this case is for me to change this question to an Idea so we can consider it as such.

In terms of seeing if a Test Case exists across multiple plans, I would recommend viewing the "Test Runs" tab on the Test Case item, as that will show all non-archived runs and which plan they belong to.

Vlada:

Thank you for your insights here. I want to make sure this Product Idea is categorized correctly for our Product teams to source, your official idea here is to: have the ability to filter for Test Cases used by a particular Test Plan, right? 

And your use case for this particular ask is for: troubleshooting purposes - a need to know the quantity of Test Cases used. Vlada, do you foresee any other business use cases utilizing this idea?

Thank you for your insights here, very helpful and applicable to our current goals! 

Best,

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Chloe Elliott
Jama Software
Portland OR
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-16-2020 03:43
From: Vladimir LastName
Subject: Re: Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Hello Jama,

When the feature to get list of Test Cases in the Test Plan will be implemented. I'm not speaking about to see them in the Test Cases in the Test Plan but to be able to find them via a filter and export them. E.g. now for some trouble shooting we needed to know how many test cases are in the test plan but we haven't found a way how to do it. The guy providing Elite support was not able to help us as well.

Thank you for your answer

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Vlada
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-28-2015 21:26
From: Kristina King
Subject: Re: Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Great question, Ranjitha. I cannot determine any way to see this information from within the GUI itself, although it's possible you could create a custom BIRT or Velocity report to find this information. Archiving a Test Plan is really meant to keep those results out of your hair and enable the ability to execute runs off of those test cases again (if need be). It sounds like we're in new feature territory, so I think the best thing in this case is for me to change this question to an Idea so we can consider it as such.

In terms of seeing if a Test Case exists across multiple plans, I would recommend viewing the "Test Runs" tab on the Test Case item, as that will show all non-archived runs and which plan they belong to.

Great clarification, thank you:

Ability to filter for ALL Test Cases associated to a specified Test Plan, used or not. 

Vlada, in the meantime, have you looked at Relating each Test Case to the Test Plan? And then using the Trace View to have this level of visibility? I know it's an extra step (or two) but, might be worth it for your needs. 

Best,

Vlada;

Ok, so this is what I did:

1. In the Admin panel > Relationships -  I made a relationship rule from Test Plan to Test Case.



2. Then I made an Advanced Filter to give me a list view of my Test Plans:





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Chloe Elliott
Jama Software
Portland OR
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-20-2020 01:11
From: Vladimir LastName
Subject: Re: Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Hello Chloe,
Please provide me a guidance how to see the relationship between Test Cases and Test Runs in the trace view. I'm able to see a relation from Test Cases to Test Run and in the Test Runs I'm able to get Test Execution Plan column. But I'm not able to get Test (Execution) Plan Column to the Test Cases. See attached file.

Thank you for your guidance

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Vlada
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-17-2020 16:27
From: Chloe Elliott
Subject: Re: Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Great clarification, thank you:

Ability to filter for ALL Test Cases associated to a specified Test Plan, used or not.

Vlada, in the meantime, have you looked at Relating each Test Case to the Test Plan? And then using the Trace View to have this level of visibility? I know it's an extra step (or two) but, might be worth it for your needs.

Best,

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Chloe Elliott
Jama Software
Portland OR

Original Message:
Sent: 01-17-2020 00:10
From: Vladimir LastName
Subject: Re: Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Hello Chloe,

> your official idea here is to: have the ability to filter for Test Cases used by a particular Test Plan, right?
No. To have a filter that will list all Test Cases included in the Test Plan. (Some test cases can be included in the Test Plan but has not be used.) To have list of Test Test Cases that are really used in the Test Plan will be another good filter because it will be possible to say if all Test Cases included in the Test Plan are also used in the Test Plan.

> And your use case for this particular ask is for: troubleshooting purposes - a need to know the quantity of Test Cases used. Vlada, do you foresee any other business use cases utilizing this idea?
No. Troubleshooting was what we did now. There it is/was of course useful. But be aware that there is a recommended limit of 4000 Test Cases to be included in the test plan. So primary purpose of this filter it to check how close user is to this limit or if the limit is not breached (btw: this filter already exists in the System Health Report).
Another use case is for planing activities and mainly checking what test cases are included in the test plan - when there are many test cases included in the test plan it's not easy to navigate. To have a list of test cases (with and easy possibility to remove or regroup test cases) make live easier.
Last use case is for various reviews or audits - the list of what was included in the test plan (and what was tested) can be easily provided to the auditors (if some test case has not been omitted).


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Vlada

Original Message:
Sent: 01-16-2020 10:21
From: Chloe Elliott
Subject: Re: Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Vlada:

Thank you for your insights here. I want to make sure this Product Idea is categorized correctly for our Product teams to source, your official idea here is to: have the ability to filter for Test Cases used by a particular Test Plan, right?

And your use case for this particular ask is for: troubleshooting purposes - a need to know the quantity of Test Cases used. Vlada, do you foresee any other business use cases utilizing this idea?

Thank you for your insights here, very helpful and applicable to our current goals!

Best,

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Chloe Elliott
Jama Software
Portland OR

Original Message:
Sent: 01-16-2020 03:43
From: Vladimir LastName
Subject: Re: Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Hello Jama,

When the feature to get list of Test Cases in the Test Plan will be implemented. I'm not speaking about to see them in the Test Cases in the Test Plan but to be able to find them via a filter and export them. E.g. now for some trouble shooting we needed to know how many test cases are in the test plan but we haven't found a way how to do it. The guy providing Elite support was not able to help us as well.

Thank you for your answer

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Vlada

Original Message:
Sent: 04-28-2015 21:26
From: Kristina King
Subject: Re: Identifying Test cases across different test plans

Great question, Ranjitha. I cannot determine any way to see this information from within the GUI itself, although it's possible you could create a custom BIRT or Velocity report to find this information. Archiving a Test Plan is really meant to keep those results out of your hair and enable the ability to execute runs off of those test cases again (if need be). It sounds like we're in new feature territory, so I think the best thing in this case is for me to change this question to an Idea so we can consider it as such.

In terms of seeing if a Test Case exists across multiple plans, I would recommend viewing the "Test Runs" tab on the Test Case item, as that will show all non-archived runs and which plan they belong to.

Vlada,

Yes, you cannot get the Trace View from the Test Plan item itself, but you can see the Trace View Icon from the Advanced Filter List View. Take a look at step 4.

Best,