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You can start the Test Management via the Dashboard or by calling the transaction /DVD/KATE_TM.
KATE Datavard Validate Dashboard
Test Management is divided into two tabs:
- Test Cases
- Test Plans
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Test Management, Test Cases tab
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- New Test Case (Shift + F1)
- Create new directory (Shift + F2)
- Delete selected Test Case/Directory (Shift + F4)
- Find (Shift + F7)
- Find next (Shift + F8)
- Go to Variant Editor (this option is only available if Backend Test Cases, like Query Test Case for example, is enabled in KATE Datavard Validate Setup /DVD/KATEVALIDATE_SETUP)
New Test Case
One of the first steps while using KATE using Datavard Validate benefits is Test case creation.
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- New test case button,
- Right-clicking at directory and selecting Add Test Case.
- Hotkey Shift + F1
Creating new test case
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When the Manual Test Case option is chosen, you are presented with the possibility to add a Test Case Document. |
Depending on your KATE your Datavard Validate setup, only certain Test Case Types may be visible.
For example, if the KATE the Datavard Validate setup were to also contain BW Test Case Types, you will see an additional button at the bottom of the 'New Test Case window', where you can define additional information, based on these Test Case Types.
Variants Management for KATE Datavard Validate BW Test Cases
Create new directory
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By pressing the Create new directory, (Shift + F2) a new directory is created and you can add subdirectories by right clicking on the existing directory and choosing Add Subdirectory.
Creating new directory
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- By right clicking on an existing test case/directory and choosing delete.
- By Selecting Test Case/Directory and pressing the delete button, (Shift + F4)
Deleting items
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Via the use of transports Test Cases and their content can be transported from the system to system. Therefore you can define Test Cases in one system and then reuse the same test case in another system. If there already exists the same Test Cases or directories, these will be overwritten when transported into the system.
Transport Test Cases for given directory
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Test Plan as basic organisational entity allows combining different types of test cases and any number of them altogether. Test plan holds definition of execution, settings, testers, statuses, documents and other... |
Test Management, Test Plans tab
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A new Test Plan is created by pressing the New Test Plan button (Shift + F1).
Creating Test Plan
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For Scheduling to take place, you need to start Scheduling Checker in the Test Management Settings.
Test Management Settings icon
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In order for the notification functionality to be working properly, the mail server has to be functioning on the system in which KATE which Datavard Validate is installed on. To test whether KATE whether Datavard Validate can send emails correctly, go in to the Test Management Settings and in the 'Notification' section, type your email address. If a test email arrives, KATE Datavard Validate can then send notification emails as expected.
KATE uses Datavard Validate uses Business Communication Service (BCS) for sending emails.
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To see only the Test Plans that have been scheduled, you can change the view by customizing the filter.
Filter only scheduled Test Plans
Test Plans with this filter enabled have additional columns that are relevant to scheduling, such as logs, execution time, email address etc.
Overview of scheduled Test Plans (with filter enabled)
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To schedule a given Test Plan, right-click on the Test Plan and select 'Schedule Test Plan'.
Creating new Scheduling for the Test Plan
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Once the Test Plan has been scheduled and executed, you can check the logs by right-clicking on the Test Plan.
Show Scheduling Logs
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Automatic Snapshot Creation for Scheduling
In current version of KATE of Datavard Validate snapshots are created only for backend Test Cases Types:
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When replication to HP ALM server is correctly setup in the KATE the Datavard Validate settings, you can replicate KATE replicate Datavard Validate Test Plans in the HP ALM server. To replicate a Test Plan, right click on it and select 'Others' -> 'Replicate to HP ALM'. To replicate multiple Test Plans, right click on a Test Plan Folder and select 'Replicate to HP ALM'.
Replicating Test Plans to HP ALM server
The following KATE following Datavard Validate objects are replicated:
- Test Case
- generates Test object in HP ALM Test plan area
- Test Plan
- generates Test Set object in HP ALM Test lab area
- Test Case in scope of Test Plan
- generates Test Instance under Test Set
- Test Case status in Test Plan
- generates HP ALM Run
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The replication works only from KATE from Datavard Validate to HP ALM. There is no transfer of data or synchronization from HP ALM back to KATEDatavard Validate.
Worklist
This part of documentation explains basic navigation and functions of the Worklist section.
Worklist in KATE Datavard Validate Dashboard
This area with in KATE in Datavard Validate is focused on the testers, and those who see their Test Cases/Test Plans that are assigned to them.
Worklist
Test Plans with the status New are not displayed here, in order to make New test plans visible their status needs to be changed to Active. You can do this through the Test Management -> Test Plans tab. Users will only see their assigned Test Cases. Also directories are not displayed here.
To indicate which phase of testing the Test Cases are in, you can change their status. To change the status, click on the Set Status icon (Shift + F4), or right click on the test case, in the following window where you can add a description for the Test Cases and set the status to Untested, In process, Failed or Successful.
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In Test Plans tab, there is option to execute all Test Cases in given Test Plan. For each Test Case Type, execution options are given and user can select which parts to execute and which do not (i.e. execute only Before Image for all ListCube Test Cases).
Mass Execution in Test Plans tab
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