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BE's avatar
23 days ago

How to add a Test Case to multiple Test Cycles?

Hi all,
I'm new to using Zephyr Scale and was wondering if it was possible to add a Test Case to multiple Test Cycles at once, without having to manually go into each Test Cycle, tick Edit and then add the Test Case that way.

I read an old 2017 post that said there should be a field in the More column on the Test Case but I am not seeing it at all, so has this been removed?

  • MisterB's avatar
    MisterB
    Champion Level 3

    Hi,

    This would be a nice feature to have, but it's not there at the moment, and I can't see a way to work around that issue.

    You could however slightly speed up the process and have less clicks by copying the URL of the Add Test Cases page, and pasting that somewhere you can change the Test Cycle ID which is at the very end of the URL.  Once you have your list of URLs you can paste each into a new tab and at least you will have all test cycles open at the page to add the test cases.

  • MisterB's avatar
    MisterB
    Champion Level 3

    Hi

    In your scenario, one of these methods might work for you:

    Clone master Test Cases
    1. Create your master Test Cases that contains the test steps (which are always the same for every device tested).  Let's say you have 10 tests in total
    2. Clone all 10 tests and assign those to a Test Cycle for Device #1
    3. Repeat for Device #2, etc.
    Advantage: enables you test all devices, but keep device results & issues separate from each other (because they are in different Test Cycles)

    No-Clone Master Test Cases
    1. Create your master Test Cases that contains the test steps (which are always the same for every device tested).  Let's say you have 10 tests in total
    2. In the Test Player, execute the first test and record the device being tested using either the Environment or Iteration fields (which you can customise in Configuration), or, create a custom field with a drop-down of values you decide
    3. When the tester has finished testing Device #1, they click the "Start new execution" button in the Test Player to execute the same test script on a different device (recording that device in whichever field you decide to use)
    Advantage: all tests are executed in 1 Test Cycle

    There might be other ways of doing this but these are two that spring to mind and would be how I approach this use case.

  • Deesus's avatar
    Deesus
    New Contributor

    This is my problem as well.. I cannot mass add test cases to multiple other cases (like call to test on multiple test cases) or multiple test cycles, so then I have to manually add the test case to hundreds of other test cases (via call to test) or test cycles. Big time sink here...

    My use case was I had test cases for multiple devices. Then I had a test case with all the steps needed to test each those devices (the steps are all the same for each device). My idea was to call to test the one test case with all the steps into the test case for the device, but it ended up being a massive pain because you can't mass add test cases.