What criteria (attributes) decide TCER is a duplicate ?
Situation: User has opened high severity issue against our QM, stating that creating additional TCER on Test Case is producing the message shown in this QM work item:
https://jazz.net/jazz02/web/projects/Rational%20Quality%20Manager#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=49634
Essentially, adding TCER upon save will show "One or more duplicate Test Case Execution Records were found while generating ..."
User has added several categories to TCER and I guess expects those values to be involved in decision about duplicate TCER. Can anyone advise ?
https://jazz.net/jazz02/web/projects/Rational%20Quality%20Manager#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=49634
Essentially, adding TCER upon save will show "One or more duplicate Test Case Execution Records were found while generating ..."
User has added several categories to TCER and I guess expects those values to be involved in decision about duplicate TCER. Can anyone advise ?
Accepted answer
Hi Kevin
For any TCER creation, the duplicate check takes into account:
a) the Testcase
b) the Test environment
c) the Test plan and
d) the Test milestone
So if there is an existing TCER with exactly same values for all 4 of the above, the TCER generation will give you a duplicate found message.
Hope this helps
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That confirms what I've found elsewhere. Now I have to convince my user to submit RFE or otherwise incorporate his TCER categories into either milestone or test environment.
Depending on how the customer is currently using Lab Resources/Test Environments they may be able to, instead of using categories, define lab resource Types. These could be made part of the Test Environment for a TCER and may satisfy the customer's use case (which to me is a bit unclear).
Is there a way to disable this check?
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Kevin Ramer
Mar 19 '13, 3:38 p.m.https://jazz.net/jazz02/web/projects/Rational%20Quality%20Manager#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=59145
"Duplicate Test Suite Execution Record found. Duplicates are detected based on the Test Suite, Test Environment, Test Plan and Test Milestone."
And for TCERs the message should be:
"Duplicate Test Case Execution Record found. Duplicates are detected based on the Test Case, Test Environment, Test Plan and Test Milestone."