(v1) Skip and Comment

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:

1. Login to QAS - Client

2. Access Develop from the left navigation.

3. Select a single step or multiple steps to perform skip or unskip on development and Task views.

4. Alternatively, you can skip step(s) by right clicking the mouse.

5. Click on a step.

6. Then, click Skip from the context menu.

7. You can press Ctrl + k to perform skip or unskip.

Now, the skipped steps are skipped during execution and are not shown on execution reports.

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 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 , or Else If are 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.

Add Comment

To add a comment:

1. Login to QAS - Client

2. Access Develop from the left navigation.

3. Right click a step where you want to add a comment.

4. Select Add Comment menu from opened context menu.

5. Insert comment text in the opened comment popup. Close the popup by clicking outside the popup.

6. 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 Edit Comment menu from the context menu. 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 Delete Comment menu from the context menu. You are then prompted to confirm the delete action.