In ReadyAPI, your work is organized into projects, which are displayed under the root node in the workspace Navigator. A project can contain any number of functional tests, load tests, and service simulations required for your testing purposes.
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The main purpose of the Test Suites page is managing test suites:
Option | Description | |
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| Adds a new test suite. | |
| Removes the selected test suite. | |
| Assigns tags to the selected test suites. |
Besides that, panels of the page allow you to modify various project aspects:
Description – Specify the text description of the test case.
Setup Script – Specify a script that is run at the start of a project run. To learn more, see Setup, TearDown, and Report Scripts.
TearDown Script – Specify a script that is run when the project run finishes. To learn more, see Setup, TearDown, and Report Scripts.
Tags – Manage the list of tags used in the project. See the Tags Panel section below.
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Use tags to group test suites within a project. In particular, this can be used to run only a group of test suites associated with the specific tag or exclude these suites from the test run.
Tip
Tags are always alphanumeric.
You can edit all tags in the project from the Tags panel.
Select the test suite.
Click
on the toolbar.
Specify the name of the tag and press Enter. The specified tag will be added to the selected test case.
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Select the test suite.
Click
on the toolbar.
Remove the selection of the tags you do not need. These tags will be removed from the selected test suite.
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Open the list of selected tags.
To include the tagged test suites in the test run and exclude others, select Show/Hide drop-down menu.
from theSelect a filtering rule:
Select
to show test suites only with all the selected tags. For example, if you select and , ReadyAPI will only show test suites that contain both and .Select
to show test suites with any of the selected tags. For example, if you select and , ReadyAPI will show test suites that contain either , , or both.
Select the tags you need.
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Open the list of selected tags.
To exclude the test suites from the test run, select Hide from the Show/Hide drop-down menu.
Select a filtering rule:
Select
to show test suites only with all the selected tags. For example, if you select and , ReadyAPI will hide only test suites that contain both and .Select
to show test suites with any of the selected tags. For example, if you select and , ReadyAPI will hide test suites that contain either , , or both.
Select the tags you need.
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You can manage all tags in the project from the Tags panel. The table lists all tags and the number of test suites and test cases each tag is assigned to. You assign tags to specific test suites on the Test Suites page of the Projects editor, or to specific test cases on the Test Cases page of the Test Suite editor. See above to learn how to assign tags to test suites and Test Suite Editor to learn how to assign tags to test cases.
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To add a tag, click on the toolbar and specify the name of the new tag and click OK.
Note
The newly created tag is not assigned to any test suite or test case. You have to assign it manually.
To delete a tag, select the tag and click on the toolbar. ReadyAPI will unassign the tag from all test suites and test cases and remove it.
To rename a tag, double-click the tag name and enter a new name.
To sort the table, click the header of the column you want to sort the table by. The first click sorts the table in ascending order, and the second click sorts in descending order.