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GP
New Contributor
5 years ago

Zephyr for JIRA Cloud-how to restrict the editing permission when the test execution status is PASS?

Hello to everyone!😃   I'm new in the Community, I hope someone could share his/her expertise with me solving this problem: I need to avoid editing the test status field in the following cases.  ...
Zephyr for JIRA Cloud
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JagadeshMadhura
Staff
5 years ago

Hi,

 

You can achieve this by enabling execution work flow, There will be 4 status in execution workflow(Todo, in-progress, done, reopen), user can change the status of the execution when execution status is in Todo state, once it is done then user cannot edit the execution status. 

 

Once status is done, again if user want to re-execute the status of the execution then user has to re-open and execute to pass/fail and make it to done. The overall history of the execution, you can check in test execution history details

For more details refer :
https://zephyrdocs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZFJ0400/pages/1250525216/Execution+Workflow#Required-Configuration-for-the-Execution-Workflow

Note: If you are facing any issues please raise support ticket - https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=zephyr

 

Thanks

Jagadeesh

  • GP's avatar
    GP
    New Contributor
    5 years ago

    Hi Jagadeesh,

    thanks for your reply.

     

    This not a solution, but a useful workaround I've already set and explained to the end-user.

     

    Unfortunately the execution statuses shouldn't be a simple list of options should be a configurable set of options by the Jira administrator to restrict the editing permission depending on the current status. This is the only way to avoid the end-user make a mistake in selecting a not-compliant status or forget to choose 'Done' in the workflow.

     

    The automatism is essential: any final status of the execution should be irreversible. The final status are PASS (built-in status) and 'N/A' (custom status).

     

    If the user forget to select 'Done', the execution status could be edited by anyone!


    Even if the execution history can help identifying who change the execution status and when, the process is not compliant to the standard ISTQB  and the KPI gadget becomes incongruous.
    For example, an end-user reopen a test execution and change the status from 'N/A', not applicable, to WIP, work in progress; the action is not compliant to the test management standard (N/A is a final status) and the filter that collect all opened statuses includes this execution so the gadget 'Test Execution Details' displays this execution as if the testing team is working on it while it should be count as finished, no more work needed (performance degradation is not real!).

     

    The Zephyr execution workflow is focused on the time tracking not on the process, unfortunately!

     

    This tool is missing some needed features. Hope the next releases can be better than this!

     

    Best Regards,
    GP

     

     

     

     

     

    • JagadeshMadhura's avatar
      JagadeshMadhura
      Staff
      5 years ago
      Hi GP,

      Yes I have given workaround but I have noted down your usecase and raised feature request and forwarded to product management team. Our team will review and prioritize this and will fix it in future release

      Thanks
      Jagadeesh