Viewing test assets with the Table view

You can use the Table view to list the test assets in a project. If you have large projects with hundreds or thousands of test assets, you can use the filtering capabilities in the Table view to help you locate specific test assets more quickly. You display the Table view by selecting the appropriate View command for a particular test asset type.

About this task

To use the filtering capabilities of the Table view to search for test assets:

Procedure

  1. Point to one of the icons in the Action Bar and select the desired test asset to view.

    For example, to view test plans, point to the Planning icon (Planning) and click View Test Plans.

    A window opens, showing a page of items for that particular test asset, as shown in the following list of test plans:

    Table view

    If you have a large number of test assets, you can control the number of assets that are displayed by changing the setting in the Items per page field.

  2. After viewing the complete list of test assets, you can narrow down the list to those test assets that contain specific text in their name or Summary section. To do so, type the text in the Type Filter Text field (Filter), as shown in the following figure:

    Filter text in the Table view

    To re-display the full list of assets, just delete the text in the Type Filter Text field.

  3. To group the test assets in the list by one of the available categories, such as State, Product, Release, or Test Phase, simply click the down arrow and make a selection in the Group by field, as shown in the following figure:

    Table view

  4. To add or remove categories, click the Manage Test Case Categories or Manage Test Plan Categories icon (Manage category).
  5. To filter on each column in the table:
    1. Select Ungrouped in the Group by field.
    2. Move the cursor to the far right side of the header row and click the Show Filters arrow to display the filters for each individual column, as shown below:

      Show filters

    3. Select a filter for one or more columns.
    4. Click Run to filter the list of test assets based on the choices in the column filters.

    To remove the filters, click Reset.

  6. To add additional filters, click the Enter more filters icon (Add) and make your selections.
    • To limit the search to your own test assets, select My test <asset type> only.
      Note: You can change the default behavior for this setting in Preferences > List View Settings.
    • To limit the search to a particular originator, click the down arrow and select one or more names from the Originators list.
      Note: An originator is the user who created the test asset. Not all test assets have an originator.
    • To limit the search to those test assets at a particular risk level, uncheck Reset to any risk and select the risk level.
  7. To change the columns that are displayed in the Table view, or to change the width of each column, click the Change Display Settings (Manage table) icon.
  8. To sort test plan or test case results by risk, click in the heading of the Risk column.
  9. To change the suspect attribute of a test case, select the test case, click the Change Suspect Attribute (Change suspect attribute icon, and click Yes.
  10. To delete a test asset from the list, select the asset and click the (Remove ) icon.

Results

Note: In the Table view, all of your choices are saved until you log out.

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