We are currently looking at Testrail as an alternative to using the Zephyr plugin within JIRA as Testrail looks to give us better test case and reporting management than Zephyr does.
Currently faced with the usual problem when changing tools of how to migrate our existing test cases from one to the other.
I know there are importer tools to get Excel spreadsheet cases into Testrail, so that is ok.
The problem I'm facing is how to get the test scripts out of Zephyr.
Does anyone know of any similar plugins to export test cases/scripts from Zephyr to Excel?
I've tried using the inbuilt export function, but it only seems to export the basic case details, not the individual test steps.
Any help greatly appreciated.
the inbuilt export definitely exports the test steps. I am looking at my own exported test cases with test steps right now in xls and csv formats
However the export has many many columns, the test step part is easy to miss.
In my XLS the test steps are in columns BF, BG, and BH. Of course yours are likely to be different, I am only giving you those column names as an example of how many columns you will have to scroll past.
XLS: For example test case EX-123 with 4 steps there will 4 rows merged together until the test steps col. So the "key", "Summary" columns will be 4 rows merged together..
CSV: The all the info is on the 1'st row.. and then at the test step column each test step has a row.
Just take a test case you know has steps, and start to scroll right through the columns and you'll see the steps .
Having done some further investigation myself, it appears there are multiple ways to extract parts of the tests from Zephyr.
If you use the 'Search' function to locate a test and then choose to Export via the Export button in the test case frame itself then you get a summary of the test information but WITHOUT the test steps.
If you use the 'Search' function to locate a test and then choose to Export via the Export button in the test case frame itself then you get a summary of the test information but WITHOUT the test steps.
If you use the Export button from the top of the window (there should be 'Share', 'Export' and 'Tools' buttons) you get additional options.
Selecting the option for 'Excel (All fields)' will extract full test case information, including all the fields.
A slightly quicker way to extract them is to Search for executed tests and from the 'Executed Tests Summary', select a test via the checkbox next to the test and select 'Export'.
This gives the option to extract the test information, including test steps, as CSV, XLS, HTML, XML or RSS.
As stated above, this is a large file and the test step information not readily apparent. (My steps were started in column CH!)
It is also worth noting that each line within the test step appears in a different cell, so importing to another tool will definitely require a lot of reformatting of the test step information.
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The new version of Azure-DevOps no longer allows me to order Test Cases within a Test Suite. Previously there was an 'Order tests' button on the top of the view. Does anyone know how I do this in the new version, please?
In ADO Test plans
Go to any Suite --->In Define tab-->Click order any number of times you want to sort it or order by .
You can See the icon Here
You can click and drag the test cases in the Define tab to reorder them. It's not very discoverable, but it works just fine. Then you can sort by order as the first answer describes.
I have a couple of things I have been trying to work out with no success.
I am using Azure DevOps in the cloud not locally.
Is it possible to simply paste screen captures into Test Case Steps.
When running manual test cases the Runner header displays an icon to Show Description, where do I enter this description in the test case, I have tried the Summary Tab Description with no success.
Image of description issue
Andy put me on the right track, I had to extract the process associated with my project then modify the TestCase.xml. I had to change the FieldName from using Microsoft.VSTS.Common.DescriptionHtml to System.Description
Q1: Is it possible to simply paste screen captures into Test Case Steps.
No, copy/paste screen captures is not supported in Test Case Steps, we can only attach the screenshots as attachments.
Q2: Where do I enter this description in the test case, I have tried
the Summary Tab Description with no success.
Yes, you can enter the description in Summary Tab, make sure you have saved the test case after entering the description. Tested on my side and everything works as expected.
I would like to create a spreadsheet that I can refresh and pull in each weeks English premier League fixtures, each week I would like to refresh this and see the weeks future fixtures. I have tried to use the import function from Data/From Web and selected the box with the table of fixtures however no data gets pulled into the spreadsheet.
The website I am using is - "http://data.7m.com.cn/matches_data/92/en/index.shtml"
I am open to understand a better way of doing this import and also if there is a better website to use I am also happy to change. I have chosen this one as it seems to have the most simplified listing of the fixtures.
I have also tried this website - https://www.premierleague.com/fixtures
When the import completes it actually skips all the fixtures and returns all the other information.
Should i be looking to some of the HTML elements within the script of the web page to extract the data?
For example on the following site - https://www.premierleague.com/fixtures I am looking for a file received by the website that updates the fixtures each week (after some direction from Google) I hit the F12 command and look within the "Network" tab however I cant understand how the website, this or the others quoted create the weekly fixtures.
Any suggestions on how to pull this into Excel or another tool would be fantastic.
Welcome to [so]! it sounds like you haven't done as much research as you could have. Your first link, in the top corner has links to "Free Feed" which take you to customizable widgets and from there is a link to a customizable live template.The first page also has a link to "Data" , I'm not sure what that consists of or whether it will help (since I'm not much of a sports fan on my continent, and even less on yours!
As for importing into Excel, I didn't have an issue with the table I could see, but once again I'm not clear on what data you're trying to get and what you want to do with it.
On the ribbon's Data tab click From Web.
Enter the first URL from your question and hit Enter
When the Navigator window loads, click "Table 1" and then click Load.
Below is what Excel then automatically loaded as a table:
If instead of clicking Load, you were to click Edit then you are brought into the Power Query Editor, where you can customizable tons of stuff. The one I was interested in was Use First Row on Headers. After choosing that, and clicking Close & Load, and 30 seconds of formatting later I had:
With Power Query you can choose, remove, split, or combine columns from this or other tables. It's fairly advanced but you should be able to find a good Power Query tutorial online, to see examples of what you can do, to learn about other ways you can customize the import and/or analysis of the data.
Edit:
More Information:
Here are the instructions for all versions:
Office Support : Connect to a web page (Power Query)
I have a MSFlexgrid in my application where i have rows and columns and I tried to automate using CodedUI. And I am trying to spy the cells inside the MSFlexGrid but CodedUI is unable to spy the cells and it shows as below when tried to spy the cells it shown as Client as a ControlType. So, please help me to resolve this.
That's an ActiveX control. I don't think Coded UI has built in support. You can try the options here MSDN SOCIAL
First option, not very reliable, click the grid control in specific coordinates. It will work if you always have to select the top row and the grid sise doesn’t change rapidly.
The second option, much better functionality requires a lot of effort. You will have to wrap the grid control with a shell that implements an accessibility API to make it testable. It is a lot of work and I wouldn’t have suggested the first option if it wasn’t so difficult.
when exporting to RTF i get the steps from my use case scenario steps as 1 textline
: 1) some text 2) some other text 3) even other text..
I would like to have this text as a list instead of 1 long sentence with numbers in it. How can i achieve that? I tried to modify the RTF template but is still keeps 1 line in the export.
example
some text
some other text
even other text
I know this isn't exactly what you were after, but with Enterprise Architects Structured Scenarios you can generate internal and external TestCases with the Test description having the format you requested.
When EA generates the test case it will also generate all the test steps for you (and the alternate steps as well), and place them in the Scenario tab in the testing dialog (Alt+3). Keep in mind you will need to have the Use Case selected to show the correct tests.
You can then run the RTF report over these tests and get the correct steps for the report.
I hope this helps