What criteria (attributes) decide TCER is a duplicate ?

Kevin Ramer (4.5k●6●175●193) | asked Mar 19 '13, 11:46 a.m.
edited Mar 19 '13, 11:54 a.m.

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 ?

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Kevin Ramer commented 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."

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Vaibhav Srivastava (286●1) | answered Mar 20 '13, 12:49 a.m.
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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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Kevin Ramer commented Mar 20 '13, 9:02 a.m.

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.

Bob Gallagher commented Mar 20 '13, 9:47 a.m.

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).

Binoy D'costa commented Apr 27 '15, 2:43 p.m.

Is there a way to disable this check?

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0	permanent link QA Team (11●2) \| answered Nov 22 '18, 5:23 a.m. Is there a way to disable this check? Would be nice to be able to create multiple TCER without running the same TCER.

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