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Chapter 2 - Planning Tests
Setting Up Traceability Using Test Inputs
As described in Identifying What to Test by Using Test Inputs on page 28, test inputs help
you decide what to test. When you create your test cases, you can associate test inputs
with them. By doing this, you can determine if a test case needs to change because its
associated test input changes.
You can also use associations to determine if the test input is covered by a test case.
For example, suppose you are using requirements as test inputs. When every test
input is associated with a test case, all of your requirements are covered. When every
test case passes, all of the test inputs have been validated. Use the Test Case reports to
determine this information.
You can associate a test input with a test case in several ways:
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When creating a new test case, click the
Test Inputs
tab in the New Test Case dialog
box.
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When editing the properties of an existing test case, click the
Test Inputs
tab in the
Test Case Properties dialog box.
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In the Test Plan window, right-click a test case and click
Associate Test Input
.
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In the Test Inputs window, right-click a test input and click
Associate Test Case
.
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When you create a configured test case, the configured test case inherits associated
test inputs from its parent test case. For information, see the next section, Inherited
Test Inputs.
Inherited Test Inputs
When you create a configured test case, the configured test case inherits associated
test inputs from its parent test case. You can also associate a configured test case with
a test input not inherited from a parent test case.
