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Advanced Filters

Get more powerful analysis done using advanced filters in TestCollab...

Vishal Vaswani avatar
Written by Vishal Vaswani
Updated over 3 months ago

When it comes to finding the desired test cases from all our test cases, we often face complex conditions and in many cases it is difficult to get the desired results without putting up lot of manual efforts.

TestCollab now brings to you the power of data analysis. With the new advanced filters, you can be assured of accurate and granular search results. We have made composing the complex queries over data simple and straight forward.

All native fields including description, steps, expected results and all types of custom fields are supported for advanced filters. A single filter criterion is divided in 3 parts

  • Field

  • Operator (==, !=, Between etc)

  • Value(s)

There can be:

  • A single (simple) filter criterion

  • More than one individual filter criterion

  • A group having multiple filter criteria

  • A combination of individual and grouped filter criteria

Some examples

Individual filter criteria

To look for test cases having the text "login" in their title

Field

Operation

Value

Title

Like

login

To look for test cases tagged as "functional"

Field

Operation

Value

Tags

Equals

functional

To look for test cases that are not tagged

Field

Operation

Tags

Is empty

Filter criteria for test cases in TestCollab

To look for test cases having "Yes" set as value for custom field "Automation candidate"

Field

Operation

Value

Automation candidate

==

Yes

Applying more than one filter criterion

When there are more than one filter criterion, you can use the logical operators to specify the relation between criteria used

  • AND

  • OR

To look for test cases under suite "Authentication" and the ones that have been tagged as "reviewed"

Field

Operation

Value

Suite

==

Authentication

AND

Tags

Equals

automated

Applying more than one filter on test cases in TestCollab


Grouping filters

The filter criteria can be grouped for better analysis

Group 1

Suite

==

Authentication

AND

Tags

Equals

automated

OR

Group 2

Suite

==

Signup

AND

Priority

==

High

Grouping the filters for test cases in TestCollab


Field types and operations supported

Field type

Operation available

Fields example

Text

  • Like

  • Not like

Title ... and other Text, Textarea, URL and User type custom fields

Single or multiple choice selection

  • ==

  • !=

Suite, Priority, Created by, Last run status, Tags ... and other Dropdown and Multiple choice type custom fields

Numeric

  • ==

  • !=

  • >

  • <

Id, Runs, Avg execution time, Failure rate ... and other Number type custom fields

Date

  • Between

Created, Updated, Last ran on ... and other Date type custom fields

Special fields

  • Equals

  • Not equals

  • Is empty

Tags and Requirements

Note: A custom field that is marked as "Used as filter" will only be listed on filter panel for selection.


Saving filters

Filters once defined or applied can be saved for later use by the user for his use only, or it saved for use of everyone in the project team.

Once a filter is saved it can be accessed by the users depending on saved filters accessibility criteria.

Saving filters for test cases in TestCollab


Removing applied filter

If not required one or more individual filter criterion or even a group of criteria can be removed from filter pane.

If not required all the applied filters can also be cleared to get all the rows listed on grid.

Note:

  • Advanced filters for test cases are also available on test plan's test cases panel

  • Advanced filters are available for companies on a paid plan!

  • Details on basic filters are available here

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