Specifying Conditions and Acceptance Criteria of Test Cases
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Chapter 3 - Designing Tests
You can import a test design from a text file to save time and effort. For information
about importing the contents of a text file, see Importing Test Assets on page 63.
Similarly, you can export a test case design to a text file to be imported later into
another project, or to be used in other ways.
Note:
To create a manual test script from a test case design: Click the
Implementation
tab and then click
Import from Test Case Design
Specifying Conditions and Acceptance Criteria of Test Cases
Preconditions and post-conditions provide information for the person executing the test.
They describe the constraints on the system that must be true when an operation
starts or ends, therefore ensuring that the test case runs properly and leaves the
system in an appropriate state. Failure of a precondition or post-condition does not
mean that the behavior or function being tested did not work. It means that the
constraint was not met.
The acceptance criteria indicates what needs to be true in order for a particular test case
to pass.
To specify the conditions and acceptance criteria:
1
In the Test Plan window, right-click a test case. Click
Properties
.
2
Click the
Implementation
tab.
