Setting up a test case
After creating a test case, you need to complete a few settings for your test case to
work. These settings include adding test instances, if required, and specifying the
input and reference files.
Before you begin
Before you can run the test case or its instances, you need to specify the input and reference files in the Context view and/or define embedded data sets in the Test Cases view.
Adding test instances
About this task
Procedure
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On the left panel of the Test Cases,
right-click the test case you want to set up, and select Add
Instance from the contextual menu.
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Type in a name for the instance or accept the proposed name.
The newly created test instance appears under the test case name node.
You can remove the instance, add test data to all existing instances, or run the instance by right-clicking on the instance and select the relevant item of the contextual menu. You can also remove a test data item by right-clicking it and select Remove TestData from the context menu.Information noteNote:Note that if you remove a test data item from an instance, this item is also removed from all the other instances.
Defining context variables for the test data
Procedure
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Click in the Value field of the variable
for the file you want to specify, click the
button, browse to your file in the Open
dialog box, and double-click it to specify the file path for the variable.
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In the Test Cases view, click each test
instances on the left panel and select the related context from the context list box on
the right panel.
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Expand each test instance to show the test data, click each test data item
on the left panel and check the context variable mapped to the data set. If needed,
select the desired variable from the Context Value
list box on the right panel.
Defining embedded data sets
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Information noteNote:
Embedded data sets defined in the Test Cases view are used only for test case execution from Test Cases view and override the files specified in the Context view.
Procedure
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Select the data file to be defined from the left panel, click the File Browse button from the right panel, browse to your file in
the Open dialog box, and double-click it to load the
file to the repository.
Once a data file is loaded, the warning sign on the data set icon disappears, the text field at the lower part of the right panel displays the content of the loaded file, and the test case will use the data from the repository rather than from the local file system.
