Qualitia Automation Studio (QAS) offers you a Skip feature to exclude selected steps or task instances during debugging and execution. This supports an enhanced flexibility. Meanwhile, the Comment feature enables you to add notes or comments to steps or tasks during test case development, modification, and debugging. This supports a collaborative multi-user scenario.
Skip
To skip a step:
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Access Develop from the left navigation.
Select a single step or multiple steps to perform skip or unskip on development and Task views.
Alternatively, you can skip step(s) by right clicking the mouse.
Click on a step.
Then, click Skip from the context menu.
You can press Ctrl + k to perform skip or unskip.
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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 does not skip other instances of the same task that may present in the test case or in other test cases.
The Task header skip is not multiselect.
Skipping some steps of a task is reflected in all the associated test cases.
You cannot modify skipped steps but can move the skipped 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, such as
If,End If, orElse Ifare not allowed to skip neither in single selection nor in multi-selection. However, you can skip a complete task that contains conditional steps.Complete task skip does not allow add, delete, modify, 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 are applicable to skip operation.
This is applicable for both skip and unskip of steps.
Comment
Using this feature, you can add a new comment as well edit and delete existing ones. This feature is present on development view and task view.
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Add Comment and Edit Comment options are toggle menu.
Comment accepts 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.
The delete feature is initially disabled for any step.
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 the Red icon.
You can select multiple steps and select comment option. The comment will get assigned to the step that is selected first.
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.
If more than one user tries to access the same comment simultaneously, the SVN lock gets applied.
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