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Parameters are the factors to be tested in Test Case Designer scenarios. For example, "Browser Type", " "Payment Method", "Age"Age, " etc. 

When creating your Test Model, you need to define which parameters should be considered consider and their values.

Parameter values are the different ways that a parameter can vary - these are the values that are chosen in a given test case for a given parameter. For example, examples of parameter values might be "Browser Type" of “Google Chrome”; "IE,"; "Safari"."

Deciding The most important part of the entire test design process will be to decide what to include as parameters and values in your Test Model will be the most important part of the entire test design process.


Create a Parameter 

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Select "Parameters" on your test model

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Click the option "New Parameter"

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Type in the name of the parameter 's name and fill in the parameter values you want, one per line.

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Tip
titleDescription vs Numbers

In some situations, descriptive fields are not the best and more practical way to use parameters in your model. 

In the example, you can see the parameter "Age" with a descriptive value. 


Instead of descriptions, maybe you could use the numbers for the ones you want to be tested. In the example, you can see the same parameter , "Age," but now with a numerical value.


Create a Parameter with a Ranged Value - Boundary Testing

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Range values are useful when you are there is required to test around cutoffs for certain business businesses rules, which that adds too many values to your parameters , and it's not efficient. 

To create a range value, use the syntax ‘number space hyphen space number’ (i.e., # – #); , Xray Test Case Designer will recognize it as a range of values to choose from.

BelowBellow, check the example with the Parameter "Age":


Additionally, it will handle a ranged value as a set of numbers inclusive of your endpoints. Therefore, Xray Test Case Designer will , in effect , boundary test the range and then randomly choose numbers from within that range (as it needs for tests).

See below how the ranges ranged values above turn into values to use in your tests.

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On the “Parameters” screen, edit a Parameter Value to instead appear as a general category. Hover over this Value and click on the branching icon to the Value’s right.

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Edit the Expansions and click on “Create” to save them.


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  • If you would like each of these 5 “sub-values” to appear in your test scripts with equal weighting (e.g., have ‘Porche’ appear in approximately as many test cases as ‘Ferrari’), the “Use evenly” option is already set by default.
  • If you would rather have the sub-values that you put towards the top of your list appear more frequently, select the Bias initial values” option.

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Standard is the default view where the user has visual access to all the available parameters and all the main actions to them. 

Bulk view

Bulk view lets enables you to edit your you parameters faster and displays parameters and values in a "code style" format. Learn more on  how to bulk edit parameters.

Edit

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a Parameter & Values

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Hover the parameter you want to edit.

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Click on the parameter name to show the edit dialogue.


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You can also click directly on the desired parameter value to bring up the edit dialogue for that specific value.

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Bulk Edit Parameters

Parameters bulk edit enables enable a faster way to make changes to several parameters' values quicker and in a more efficientlyefficient way.


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Click on the “Bulk Edit” toggle and edit your parameters & values

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This will toggle the input window into a quick-to-edit single - text window.

Now you can have the ability to change any parameters or values value as needed and change the priorities in a more efficient way 

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Hover the parameter you want to re-order.

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Two options are displayed, one to move up and another to move down the selected parameter.


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You can also use the bulk option to re-order your parameters



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