How to Manage Requirements, Execute Test Cases and Generate Reports Using TestLink – Tutorial #2

This is Part 2 of the “Learning TestLink Test Management Tool” tutorial series. If you missed part-1 you can check it here: Getting started with the TestLink Test Management tool.

In the last tutorial, we learned TestLink installation, creating Test Plan, and writing Test Cases.

Today, let’s learn important features of TestLink, including requirements management, test case execution, and generating test reports.

TestLink Features: Requirements, Test Cases, Reports

Let’s start.

Creating Users And Assigning Roles In TestLink

TestLink restricts some access rights depending on user roles. A list of default roles defined in TestLink is discussed below:

• Guest who has the right to only view test cases and metrics. They cannot edit or view anything apart from that.
• Tester can execute test cases and view Test Metrics.
• Senior Tester who can view, modify, create, and delete test cases. And they can also execute test cases and view metrics. But they have no right to create a Test Plan.
• Leader & Admin both Test Lead and Admin have the same rights such as view/modify/create/delete. Test plan and Build, executing test cases, deleting a project, assigning user roles and permissions. Besides that admin user has the right to modify the product, i.e. create, delete, and update the project.

You can even create new custom roles with different permissions as shown in the below image: 

The below section clearly explains how to create a user and assign user rights. Follow these steps to create a user and assign user roles:

Step #1: Click on Users/Roles link in the TestLink navigation bar. It will navigate to the Users/Roles page.

Step #2: Click on the “Create” button on that page.

Step #3: Enter the username, user details, and role in the form displayed and click on the “Save” button.

Step #4: To assign a Test project role to a user, switch to the “Assign Test Project Roles” tab.

Step #5: Select the Project name and Role for the User from the drop-down, as shown in Fig.

Similarly, we can switch to the “Assign Test Plan Roles” tab and assign roles for users to a particular Test Plan.

Writing Requirements

The requirement is a constraint/need that the software should satisfy/perform.

This section clearly explains how to write requirements in TestLink:

Step #3: Enter the Document ID, Title, and Description of the requirement, as shown in the below figure, and click on the “Save” button.

Assigning Requirement To Test Case

Requirements can be linked to test cases in TestLink. This is a very important feature to track test coverage based on requirements. In test reports, you can check which requirements are not covered and work on them to add in test suites for maximum test coverage.

This section explains how to assign a requirement to a test case:

Step #1: Open any one test case from the Test Specification section.

Step #4: Click on the “Assign” button. Now you can find the selected requirement in the assigned requirements section.

The requirement gets successfully added to the test case.

Executing A Test case

We can execute a test case and can change the execution status of a test case in TestLink. The status of a test case can be changed to “passed”, “failed” or “blocked”. Initially, the test case will be in the “not run” state, but once you update it, you cannot change its status back to “not run”.

Follow these steps to execute a test case:

Step #3: Select the execution status (pass/fail/blocked), and then enter the test execution notes as shown in the below figure.

Step #4: Click on the “Save execution” button. It will update the Test case execution status as selected.

Generating Test Reports

Test Reports are the evidence of Testing, TestLink provides a built-in feature to generate test reports in various formats such as HTML, MS Word, MS Excel, OpenOffice Writer, and OpenOffice Calc.

This section explains how to generate a Test report in TestLink. Follow these steps to generate a test report:

Step #3: Select the contents to be added to the test report by checking the Checkboxes.

Same way, you can generate the Test plan report.

Export Test Case/Test Suite

Let’s assume you are using TestLink and you have already created some projects under it.

What if you want to install TestLink on some other server and you want to have all the Test projects in your TestLink on that server?

Export test cases or test suites feature comes in handy in that case. You can simply export test projects/ test suites in your TestLink and then you can import them into another TestLink project on a different system, for instance.

Export/Import feature helps to avoid the overhead of writing all the test projects and test cases again.

Follow the below-mentioned steps to export and import test cases:

Step #1: Select the Test case you want to export on the Test specification page.

Step #2: Click on the settings icon on the right-side panel. It will display some test case operations.

Step #3: Click the “Export” button.

Step #4: Check all four checkboxes, and click on the “Export” button. It will export the selected test case in XML format and save it on your local drive. In the same way, we can export a test suite as well.

Importing Test Case/Test Suite

Step #1: Select the Test suite folder inside which you want to import the Test case.

Step #2: When you click on the settings icon in the right-side panel, it will display all operations that can be performed on a Test case / Test suite.

Step #3: Click on the “Import” button in the test case operations list as shown below figure:

Step #4: Browse and attach the XML test case file you’ve exported from TestLink and click on the “Upload file” button.

Step #5: The test case will be uploaded and displayed on the left side panel.

In the same way, we can import a test suite as well.

Conclusion

In this part, we have seen the only manual execution of test cases. TestLink also supports an API, through which we can easily update the test case execution status.

In the next and last part, we will see some advanced concepts like – updating test case execution status in TestLink remotely, i.e. through Selenium WebDriver code using TestLink API. After all, automating these small repetitive tasks can save us a lot of time in the end!

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