When all the operations performed in TestCollab revolve around test cases then it is important to have the knowledge about what a test case holds and what as a user you can do with it?

Click on a test case listed on grid to open its view panel. All the information pertaining to test case right from its title, suite, steps and expected results to comments it has received, execution history, log of changes it had been through, are all available on this panel.

Title on top bar is accompanied by actions menu.

After Title, you can see information like Priority, Suite, Test Case created date, updated date, its author and description.

Next Section is for the data related to the custom fields and tags associated with this test case.

Then comes the most important part of information the steps followed by their expected results, they are shown sequentially.

The bottom section of the panel is divided in tabs like: Comments, Run history, Change log, Requirements, Review information.

Communication becomes the basis of the real collaboration between team members, that is why TestCollab has the comments feature allowing users to share their views, feedback and instructions related to the test case.

Comments can be simple text messages to share your views about the test case with team, but there are certain other features worth exploring:

You can directly address your teammates by mentioning them in comments to share your views or instructions. For this the @ is to be used to get the list of project members. There would be in-app and email notifications for the users who have been mentioned.

You can also refer other test cases in your comment, you start by typing # to get list of test cases in the project, select one of the test cases to add a reference with link to the test case's view page.

When test cases are added to test plans and have been executed, it generates a run history, and to have details of the executions a test case has been through, there is a separate section on view panel.

Key metrics covered:

Followed by the metrics are the logs of every execution the test case has been through.

During the lifetime of a test case it goes through many a changes by its users, all these changes can be viewed on Change log tab in chronologically descending order i.e. latest change is shown first along with the actions that are possible. For more details please see this article.

In action menu View opens a full screen view of test case. This full screen view is also used when a link for referred test case is used either within app or received through an email.

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