TMT - TestRail

 Here I am publishing the POC on Test management tool.

First question that always comes to stake holders

Why we need Test management tool ?

• .Tech company teams are always be dynamic ,techies exist and new joiner is regular routine.There is high risk to lost the content of features which is tested or testing on going.

• maintaining google sheet as test execution report isn't first hand report.

• google sheet is not up to the standard to maintain the test cases.

• organisation focus is on test automation, so meantime we shall maintain a track of test results according to release.

• Enhancement deployment, hot fix or patch for prod issue, in each cases we have to maintain and create milestones, these milestone will capture the result from test automation.

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  I did a research on test management tools and found testrail is best TMT in a market which is satisfying all agile and test lifecycle needs.

Below are the main points about the tool:

1. Centralized Test Management Tools 

• 1. TestRail tool create, centralise, organise and manage test cases very effectively and efficiently.

• 2. Easily import test cases from excel and other management tool.

• 3. It can create multiple versions of test cases for comparison and uses.

• 4. It can share test case repository across different projects, releases and sprint

2. Testing Supports and Methodologies

• 1. Black box testing

• 2. Exploratory Testing

• 3. Functional Testing

• 4. Automation Testing

3. Manage & Track Execution

• 1. It supports build out and re-run of test execution suites.

• 2. It kicks off automation suite as well.

• 3. It captures step by step test execution history with detailed explanation.

• 4. It supports test run specific configuration and parameters.

4. Power Search

• 1. TestRail supports powerful search functionality with Hotkeys features
  2. supports free text search

• 3. supports syntax search

5. Reports

• 1. TestRail supports multiple reporting.

• 2. It supports Test Case and Test Execution Reports

• 3. Generate detailed summary report for projects, milestones, plan and Runs.

• 4. Track the workload of entire team.

• 5. It supports Cross Project Report as well.

6. Scale with Team Growth

• TestRail supports any business team and any project irrespective of size and complexity.

7. Common Features

• 1. It supports sticky sidebars

• 2. supports rich text formatting

• 3. optimising printing

• 4. scheduling and forecasting

8. Recover Data

• 1. Generate and download full system backups.

• 2. Migrate and import existing test cases from excel and legacy data tool.

• 3. Export data into CSV, XML and Excel files.

Features:

1. Test Cases -section

• TestRail supports flexible, lightweight test management.

• Test cases are organised into test suite

• A test suite is created at Project modules or functionality.

• Maintenance of test cases depends on size of the project.

• Ideally a test suite consists of about 100 test cases.

• it’s recommended to break down test suites at functionality level rather than module level, in case of many test cases for a project module.
  

     2. Add test case

• Adding test case description, pre-requisites, list of test steps and the expected result.

• The test case confirms a specific functionality, documents a task, verifies a project artifact, and can be verified by a tester

• Add table

• add image

      3. Milestones associated with project and one of the best ways to track the progress and timeline. It is similar to the small targets in a project. A milestone can be an important target such as a planned public software release, an internal test version, a new beta release for an important customer etc.

      4. Test plan allows to execute multiple test runs either many test suites or validation test against multiple configurations

      5. Reports TestRail supports number of reports in different groups 

• test cases design

• defect report

• test run result

• summary report
  

6. Import/Export Test Cases

 

Note :

This is paid tool, but it is worth it .