What if you wanted your test cases to be executed under different scenarios like on different platforms (OS/Hardware) or in different environments (testing/production) or on different web browsers Well... all this can be easily managed with test plan configurations.

You can make a custom field of type "Dropdown" and "Multiple Choice" to be used for creating test plan configurations. When adding a custom field simply check - "Used for test plan configuration" and then this custom field will be available on test plan add wizard to create configuration.

With configurations you can make sure whether a test case renders the expected results under different conditions, if not, then how much the results vary? How much time it takes for a test case to run in a particular scenario? On that basis you can analyse what can be done to reduce the gaps?

Let us take some examples, suppose you have custom fields like platform , environment and web browser added to your project and all these can be used to define configurations.

Example 1: Configurations based on single field

Selections -

Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox and IE

Here 0, 1, 2 or all 3 configurations can be selected and assigned to the testers. With this, you can see results for execution of test cases on Chrome, Firefox and IE in a single Test Plan.

Example 2: Configurations based on multiple fields

Here are the selections -

Web Browser: Chrome and Firefox

Platform: Linux, Windows and Mac

Possible combinations:

Now you have option to either have none, or only a few, or all of the above combinations as configurations, i.e. you can have 0 to 6 configurations.

TestCollab also has manual configuration definition option; wherein if the number of possible combinations initially exceeds 30, then the individual values can be selected from all (or some) of the fields to define a configuration manually while adding a test plan.

Once a Test Plan with configuration is created you will see a configuration selection dropdown in the test Plan.

Once configurations are in place, here is how they can be used:

Note: Configurations is a paid feature so they may not be the part of all pricing plans.

Please send your queries, concerns and feedback to support@testcollab.com