The Qualitia Automation Studio (QAS) offers you a Skip feature has been introduced in Qualitia to provide flexibility while working with the product. The Comment feature can be useful when the user wants to add notes and document the test case development. Both Comment and Skip functionalities support multi-user scenarios.The Skip feature lets you skip one or more steps or a task instance within a test case. The to exclude selected steps or task instances that you choose for skipping are excluded during the process of debugging and execution.The . This supports an enhanced flexibility. Meanwhile, the Comment feature lets enables you to add notes or comments to a step steps or a task tasks during test case development or , modification, as well as while you are debugging.
Skip Feature
You can select and debugging. This supports a collaborative multi-user scenario.
Skip
To skip a step:
Login to QAS - Client
Access Develop from the left navigation.
Select a single step or multiple steps to perform skip or unskip on development and Task views.
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Alternatively, you can skip step(s)
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by right clicking the mouse
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Click on a step
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Then, click Skip from the context menu.
You can press Ctrl + k to perform skip or unskip.
Skipped Now, the skipped steps are skipped during execution and are not shown on execution reports.Note:
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Skip and Unskip is a toggle context menu. Ctrl+K is also a toggle shortcut key. |
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Validation will start immediately after you select step(s) to skip |
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is successful, it will skip the selected step(s) successfully |
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TestData is not shown for skipped
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steps.
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In addition:
You can choose to skip all steps in a Test case. In this case, since there are no steps to execute, Dry run will not be launched.
You can use the Shift key to select multiple steps. Control key multi-select are only allowed within Task's steps.
Breakpoint is allowed if a step is already skipped. Also, skip is allowed on a step with breakpoint.
If you select the Task header and choose to skip, then only that Task block gets skipped. It will does not skip other instances of the same task that may present in the test case or in other test cases.
Note: The Task header skip is not selected multiselect.
Skipping some steps of a task is reflected in all the associated test cases.
You cannot modify skipped step(s) steps but can move the skipped step(s) up/steps up or down. However, user can perform delete operation on it.
You can add a step in between two skipped steps.
You will get the options 'Skip Task Block', 'Skip', 'UnSkip Task Block' ,and 'UnSkip ' on the context menu.
The conditional blocks: If/Else/, such as
If,End If/ , orElse Ifare not allowed to skip neither in single selection nor in multiselectionmulti-selection. However, you can skip a complete task that contains conditional steps.Complete task skip does not allow add, delete, modify and , or move up /and down operations.
Multiple users are not allowed to modify the same step simultaneously.
Skip operation on a task step is similar to modify operation on a task and hence all the verifications and rules that are applicable to a normal task modification will be are applicable to skip operation.
Please note: This functionality is applicable to for both skip and unskip of step(s)steps.
Comment
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Using this feature, you can add a new comment , as well edit an existing comment and delete commentexisting ones. This feature is present on development view and task view.
Add , edit, and delete comment feature on Development view.
Add Comment
Comment
To add a comment:
Login to QAS - Client
Access Develop from the left navigation.
Right click a step where you want to add Commenta comment.
Select 'Add Comment' menu from opened context menu.
Insert comment text in the opened comment popup. Close the popup by mouse click clicking outside the popup, click on .
Click the cross button present at the top-right corner of popup or press escape key.
Edit Comment:
To edit comment, right-click on the step and select
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Edit Comment
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menu from the context menu.
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You can see the Comment in an edit mode with the cursor positioned at the end of the comment.
Delete Comment:
To delete a comment, right-click on the step and select
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Delete Comment
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menu from the context menu.
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It will ask for confirmation to delete. In the example, comment is Task step, so it will show the following message:
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You are then prompted to confirm the delete action.
Add Comment and Edit Comment options are toggle menu.
Comment accepts
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up to1000 characters.
User can add comment only on rows, not on its individual cell.
Upon selecting the Add Comment or Edit Comment, you can view the Comment popup at the start of that row.
Comments get saved in testcase and task xml files.
Comment popup is resizable and movable.
To resize, drag bottom-right corner.
To move, click on header of comment popup.
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The delete feature is initially disabled for any step.
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Comments will get automatically saved on click of "Save" and "Save As" button on development and Task views.
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User can add comment only on rows, not on its individual cell.
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Step comment will be shown using red upper triangle icon as shown below.
From the Development and Task screens, you can save a comment using Save or Save As option.
You can view Step comment in the Red upper triangle icon.
The new or updated comment is visible only on mouseover of
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the Red icon.
You can select multiple steps and select comment option.
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The comment will get assigned to the step that is selected first.
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This feature is visible across project.
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Shortcut for Add/Edit comment is Ctrl+M. Delete has no shortcut key.
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The row copy feature copies a row along with the comment and the content of the row.
This feature is not applicable for task header and condition steps
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If more than one user tries to access the same comment simultaneously, the SVN lock
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gets applied.
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The shortcut to Add or Edit Comment is Ctrl+M. Delete has no shortcut key. |