As stated in this feature request, we work agile and the tester gets new applications versions (almost) on a daily basis.
The tester does not know which objects have been changed/deleted. And does ...
Montikore you're way to deep in technical implementation.
Never ever is a tool going to decide if it's a bug. That's allways up to a human being to interpret.
TC should only recognize differences between latest deployment and the latest deployment -1 (second last deployment).
Specifically it should be able to:
- recognize deleted objects in the application: objects used in second last testrun but are removed from the latest version. It does not make sense to run tests on these since they would fail. (but that's logical because the applicaton has evolved).
- recognize differences on the UI by marking these. So that tester can do his/hers work on the test automation framework. TC should be able to do that since already similar logic is built in to it (comparing screenshots). That would be ideal for assisting the tester in recognizing the differences in releases and keep the test framework up to date with developers/latest releases!
See this feature request also.