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Dividing a testplan into a master plan and subplans
contain the remaining levels of group descriptions and test descriptions. This
approach allows multi-user access, while at the same time maintaining a
single point of control for the entire project.
For example, consider the following testplan:
If you wanted to break this testplan up into a master plan and subplans, one
approach would be to place the case-sensitive tests in one subplan and the
case-insensitive tests in another, as shown in the following figure:
Note that subplans are specified with an include statement. To expand the
subplan files so that they are visible within the master plan, double-click in
the left margin next to the include statement.
For example, here is how the preceding master testplan looks when the
casesens.pln and the caseinsv.pln testplan files are expanded inline: