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kwiegandt
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago
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Accepted for Discussion

Call shared steps within a test and at execution, include the detail of the shared steps.

We need a method by which a step or series of steps can be written once and called from multiple tests. For example, I want to write a login procedure and then call it from other tests. Specifically,...
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Dan_Gawarecki
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

I'm surprised this isn't in the product already.  I have used this capability in Microsoft's TFS -very useful, for it saves a lot of time writing tests, *and* maintaining them.

 

Would ideally be accompanied by a tracing feature of "Here's the list of test cases that use this 'shared steps' component.".  This one allow evaluation of an update to the shared steps (that is, does the update break any of the tests that reference/use the shared steps).