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Introduction
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Xray Test Case Designer is a revolutionary test Designer is an Xray Enterprise Test case design optimization tool that will increase enhances the effectiveness of your testing while saving time.
The tool can be used by teams in Teams use it during the early stages of the testing process (and by teams creating , including when they create scenario-based requirements). Benefitting from Intelligent Augmentation algorithms, test sets created by the Benefiting from the model-based approach and the intelligent augmentation algorithm, Xray Test Case Designer's Test suites have been repeatedly proven to find more defects (- and find them do so more efficiently ) - than hand-selected test setsTest suites.
Xray Test Case Designer To do so, the tool carefully constructs combinations of test conditions to achieve as much coverage as possible in as few tests as possible using applied maximum coverage with the fewest possible tests, using statistics-based optimization methods that have been refined over more than 40 years.
This is the core feature of of Xray Test Case Designer , and to achieve that, it focuses on these the following areas:
- Systematically avoiding wasteful wasteful repetition.
- Systematically covering not only all user-specified requirements but also and 100% of all of the application’s critical application's critical interactions.
- doing Doing so in the lowest mathematically possible number of testsTests.
Benefits
With Xray Test Case Designer, you’ll test much faster. You’ll also achieve objectively much better tests. Let’s begin by discussing three key ways Xray Test Case Designer will save you and your colleagues time, as well as how the scenarios you’ll generate using the tool are far more thorough than the ones selected by hand.
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Design Faster
Generate test models in seconds at the push of a button.
Generating the test models in the Test Case Designer is a fundamentally different process than selecting and documenting individual tests by hand, one by one. To generate optimized scenarios using the Test Case Designer, you must first identify inputs and variation ideas and enter them into the tool.
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the goal is to enhance both the speed and the quality - teams create more thorough tests faster, find defects earlier in the process, and do so in fewer tests to run and maintain over time, which leads to cost savings.
Designing Faster
Creating Test Models in Xray Test Case Designer is fundamentally different from manually selecting and documenting individual Tests. Instead, the designer thoughtfully identifies inputs and variations and enters them into the tool. Once identified, you can generate entire suites of thorough and efficient scenarios in seconds and adjust them as
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Approve Faster
Clearly communicate testing coverage for faster approvals.
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Approving Faster
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Each time you generate a set of scenarios,
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Xray Test Case Designer automatically creates insightful interaction coverage reports
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, clearly showing what is and isn't covered by any chosen scenario. These visualizations facilitate clear and efficient communication
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among stakeholders.
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Designer's coverage graphs, you
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'll have clear, actionable, and fact-based answers to
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questions like "How many tests are enough?
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Automating Faster
If many of your automated Tests are currently
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Automate Faster
Quickly transform optimized scenarios into automated tests
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written using hard-coded variables,
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your SDETs,
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developers, and
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automation engineers
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will benefit from Xray Test Case Designer. It enables accelerated
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and optimized in-sprint automation
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- Rapidly create clear, consistent
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- Test Steps that leverage Behavior Driven Development principles
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- . The primary benefit is the one-to-many relationship between Xray Test Case
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- Designer scripts and the data scenarios.
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- Export one
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- scenario block into multiple skeletal scripts based on your chosen language (using "Automated Test Framework" option).
- Maintain and reuse
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- script components
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- faster, thanks to the model-based approach.
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Eliminating Wasteful Redundancy
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Eliminate wasteful redundancy
Stop hand-selecting redundant tests.
The most common type of wasteful repetition
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occurs when certain system paths
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Test input combinations are tested repeatedly across multiple tests (instead of branching out). Based on our analysis of thousands of hand-selected
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Test suites, even
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those achieving "requirements coverage" often fail to thoroughly Test critical system interactions
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Eliminate Gaps in Coverage
Reach 100% coverage in fewer tests.
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Eliminating Gaps, Maximizing Variation and Thoroughness
Most software defects are triggered by simple interactions within a system.
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Xray Test Case Designer uses
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combinatorial Test generation algorithms powered by
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intelligent augmentation to systematically eliminate coverage gaps. Whether a system under
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Test has 50 critical interactions or
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5000, Xray Test Case Designer
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keeps track of 100% of them
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Tests cover them all
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in the fewest
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Maximize variation and thoroughness.
Simple interactions within a system trigger the majority of software defects.
Every test you generate with the Test Case Designer is optimized to achieve maximum coverage, allowing teams to achieve greater coverage in fewer overall tests.
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Xray Test Case Designer is a feature included in Xray Enterprise offer. To access this feature, you need to make sure that you have the following:
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When a valid Xray Enterprise license is detected, a new Xray Enterprise configuration option will be made available to set up your Test Case Designer instance.
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Concepts
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Test Model
A Test Model is an abstraction of a focused use case that we you aim to testTest. This model is made built around a specific scope (e.g., "book a flight") that can be exercised in different ways, depending on a combination of input parameters parameters (e.g., "origin, destination, number of seats, date"). An To find bugs related to the input parameters and increase coverage, an optimized set of test cases (manual or automated) can be derived to find bugs related to the input parameters and increase the related coverage. More info on Test Models is here.
Parameters
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Parameters
Parameters The parameters are used to define the variables , and the related their possible values , that apply to within the Test Model. UsuallyTypically, these refer to the input variables.Parameters and the Parameters, along with restrictions specified using Rules will be , are used to derive the combination of parametersparameter/values.More
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Test parameterization is a powerful practice that allows the same test to bebe executed multiple times with different parameters. Parameters are similar to input values (variables) that can change with each execution. |
Rules
While Parameters are used to enumerate , in general, the variables in our your Test Model and the their possible values they can have, Rules allow us you to apply some restrictions as we may not be interested in having all the combinations of these variables. Rules can be used to define what define which parameter values can should never be tested together , as because they either don't make sense in reality (e.g., Windows + Safari) or because they may not be aren't representative/relevant.
On the other handConversely, Rules can also be used to enforce scenarios where parameter values can only be tested together.
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certain lengthy parameter value combinations must be incorporated into the test suite as a priority.
Scenarios
Scenarios are are the generated combination combinations of input parameter values, where each row represents a combination of parameters (and their values) to be used in a testTest.
We can think Think of Scenarios as an optimized dataset that will be used to iterate our your Test Model multiple times and thus test , testing it under slightly different circumstances.
Not all combinations of parameters/values parameter/value combinations are created. Xray Test Case Designer uses coverage coverage optimization algorithms (e.g., pairwise, n-wise) to achieve a high level of coverage within with few testsTests. This can be adjusted to achieve for greater coverage if needed. More info on Scenarios is here.
Scripts
While Scenarios focus on the data that will be used for our testsyour Tests, Scripts provide the actual context so that testers know how /and where to apply it.
Scripts have detailed steps with contain detailed Steps with actions and expectations for our your test scenarios. Scripts can be either manual test scripts or automated test scripts.
For manual test Test scripts, detailed steps Steps and expected results can be specified, where with parameters may be mentioned. These parameters will be replaced by the respective values whenever generating when exporting the tests Tests later on.
For automated test Test scripts, you can specify Gherkin (e.g., Cucumber) Scenario Scenarios or Scenario Outline can be specified Outlines, or even Robot Framework test Test cases. Similarly Similar to manual test Test scripts, parameters can be mentioned in the specification so that they can be replaced later on and replaced by proper values . More info on Scripts is herelater.
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| Create, view, edit, copy Test Models | |
| Test Model revision history |
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| Import Test Models from Excel |
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| Import Test Models from mind maps (OPML) |
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| Share Test Models |
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| Export Test Models |
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| Create, view, edit Parameters |
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| Order Parameters |
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| Add Value Expansions (equivalence classes) |
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| Boundary/ranged values |
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| Constraints definition |
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| Invalid, Bound, Skip constraints |
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| Complex multi-parameter rules |
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| Forced Interactions definition |
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| Import Forced Interactions |
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| Standard and optimized scenarios generation |
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| Multi way interactions |
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| Mixed-strength interactions |
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| Scenario Freeze option |
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| Export Scenarios |
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| Manual Tests |
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| Native support for BDD (Gherkin/Cucumber) |
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| Coverage Matrix |
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If you have questions or technical issues, please contact the Support team via the Customer Portal (Jira service management) or send us a message using the in-app chat. |