Locking a Test Script for Edit by Others & Unlocking it
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- Significance of the locking a test script from edit by others
- Locking a test script (in WIP version) from edit by others
- Unlocking a test script (in WIP version), after it was locked for edit
- Knowing you or your peers locked a script from edit by others by you or others on the test scripts' edit or view screen
- Knowing you or your peers locked a script from edit by others by you or others on the test scripts'home screen
- Searching for (finding) a test scripts that are 'locked for edit' by others
Significance of the locking a test script from edit by others':
The Script Library for each project is shared across multiple people that may share the responsibility of creating and maintaining the scripts within the library. If your project involves more than one person that is responsible for maintaining the test scripts, it is likely that more than one person can simultaneously get into the 'edit' mode of a test script and start making changes unaware that someone else on their team has already started making changes to the same script. This could potentially lead to accidental overwriting of changes done by one person by a person that saved the changes after the first person saved his/her changes to that test script.
To avoid such a situation, you can 'lock' a script from edit by others. If you have plans of editing a test script soon, you should make use of this feature. However, do not keep it locked from edit by others for long periods of time, especially when you are done with your changes and saved them. Locking scripts from edit by others when you don't have anything else to changes in those locked test scripts can inconvenience others that may want to make changes to the same test script. Please be careful when you use this feature.
Locking a test script (in WIP version) from edit by others:
To lock a test script from edit by others, just click on the black-colored person profile icon that appears within the many icon controls that appear on the top right hand side of the test script name.
Unlocking a test script (in WIP version), after it was locked for edit:
To unlock a previously locked test script, just click on the green-colored person profile icon that appears within the many icon controls that appear on the top right hand side of the test script name.
Knowing you or your peers locked a script from edit by others by you or others on the test scripts' edit or view screen:
If a test script is locked for edit by one of your peers, you will see a red-colored person profile icon within the many icons that appear on the top right hand side o the test script name on the edit or view test script screen. You can mouse over that icon to know who locked it and when.
If you need to urgently edit a test script but you find out that one of your peers had locked it from edit by others, contact your peer and request him/her to unlock that script.
If you yourself had locked a test script from edit by others, you will see a green-colored person profile icon within the many icons that appear on the top right hand side o the test script name on the edit or view test script screen. You can mouse over that icon to know that you locked it and when. No one else will be allowed to get into the edit mode of that test script until you release the lock (unlock it).
Knowing you or your peers locked a script from edit by others by you or others on the test scripts' home screen:
If a test script is locked for edit by one of your peers, you will see a red-colored person profile icon that appears to the right of the status that appears on the bottom left hand side of each test script row on the test scripts' home screen. You can mouse over that icon to know who locked it and when.
If you yourself had locked a test script from edit by others, you will see a green-colored to the right of the status that appears on the bottom left hand side of each test script row on the test scripts' home screen. You can mouse over that icon to know that you locked it and when. No one else will be allowed to get into the edit mode of that test script until you release the lock (unlock it).
The Test Scripts home screen allows you to search for test scripts that are locked by yourself or by others and/or the time period within which the locking happens on both the 'My Favorites' view as well as the 'Script Library' view. To learn more, click here.
Searching for (finding) a test scripts that are 'locked for edit' by others':
The Test Scripts home screen allows you to search for test scripts that are locked by yourself or by others and/or the time period within which the locking happens on both the 'My Favorites' view as well as the 'Script Library' view. To learn more, click here.
