Assigning 'Labels' to a Test Script & maintaining them
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Assigning, Viewing, and Editing of 'labels' to/of a test script on the edit/view test script screen:
The Test Scripts home screen allows you to search for or filter the test scripts listed within the 'My Favorites' view or the 'Script Library' view based on the 'labels' assigned to the test script. To learn more, click here.
- Significance of the assigning 'labels' to a test script
- Assigning, Viewing, and Editing of 'labels' to/of a test script on the edit/view test script screen
- Searching for (finding) a test scripts that are assigned specific 'labels'
Significance of the assigning 'labels' to a test script:
Labels is a powerful feature in Worksoft SaaS that allows you to meet several goals you may have for your test automation initiatives. Among many such objectives, the most important ones are:
- Mapping your automated test scripts (or for that matter any other automation entity like test scenarios, run definitions, data definitions, data files, files, etc) to the components (or modules) within your application
- Mapping your automated test scripts to the functional features (or use cases) that your application(s) offer/support
- Mapping your automated test scripts to the manual test cases (BDD test scenarios, etc)
- Mapping your automated test script to the type of test case (positive/happy path vs. negative test, or any types you can customize for your project)
- Mapping your automated test script to the type of test coverage category - Is the test script verifying workflow/functionality? Is it verifying GUI look and feel? Is it verifying validation/error messages? Is it it verifying data sets like reference/look up data that show up on your app? Or is it verifying the performance of the pages or components? or anything else that you need for your project)
As far as test scripts are concerned, it is strongly recommended that you decide up front what sort of labels you want to map your test scripts to, pre-create them, and then for each test script you create in the project, ensure that all appropriate labels are assigned. It is also extremely important that you define a policy for assignment of labels and communicate the same to all project stakeholders.
If you and your peer project stakeholders invest the necessary time upfront in defining a policy and comply with that policy, there are significant benefits you can avail within the Worksoft SaaS testing platform. The first of those is the ability to quickly find the test scripts you are looking for (among hundreds or thousands of test scripts you may develop on this platform over the longer haul) by filtering based on labels. The icing on the cake, however, is how you can configure the reports and analytics you want that report on the test outcomes of your automated tests.
Assigning, Viewing, and Editing of 'labels' to/of a test script on the edit/view test script screen:
To assign labels to your test script, click on the blue price tag like icon that appears within the many icon controls that appear on the top right hand side of the test script name.
From the overlay screen that comes up, just assign all the labels you want to assign to the test script. You can also create new labels from here and assign those newly created ones to the test script. Once you have applied all the labels you want, click the 'Apply' button on the bottom right hand side of the overlay screen. Please do remember however that you must still click on 'Save' on the test script edit screen for those labels to be assigned to your test script.
Searching for (finding) a test scripts that are assigned specific 'labels':
The Test Scripts home screen allows you to search for or filter the test scripts listed within the 'My Favorites' view or the 'Script Library' view based on the 'labels' assigned to the test script. To learn more, click here.