Overview of TestDirector

TestDirector, Mercury Interactive’s Web-based test management tool. TestDirector helps you organize and manage all phases of the application testing process, including specifying testing requirements, planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.

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• Define Testing Scope: Examine application documentation in order to determine your testing scope—test goals, objectives, and strategies.
• Create Requirements: Build a requirements tree to define your overall testing requirements.
• Detail Requirements: For each requirement topic in the requirements tree, create a list of detailed testing requirements. Describe each requirement, assign it a priority level, and add attachments if necessary.
• Analyze Requirements Specification: Generate reports and graphs to assist in analyzing your testing requirements. Review your requirements to ensure they meet your testing scope.

Test Plan

• Defining Testing Strategy: Outline a strategy for achieving your testing requirements, as defined in the Requirements module.
• Defining Test Subjects: Consider the hierarchical relationship of the functions in your application. Divide the functions into subjects and build a test plan tree representing your application’s functionality.
• Planning Tests: Plan tests for each subject in your test plan tree. Decide which types of tests to create for each subject, such as sanity level tests or regression tests.
• Creating Requirements Coverage: Link each test in the test plan tree with a requirement or requirements in the requirements tree.
• Designing Test Steps: Design the tests in your test plan tree. Create test steps describing the operations to perform and the expected results. After you define the test steps, decide whether to perform the test manually or automate it.

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Test Lab

• Create Test Sets: Define groups of tests to meet the various testing goals in  your project. These might include, for example, testing a new application version or a specific function in an application. Determine which tests to include in each test set.
• Schedule Runs: Schedule test execution and assign tasks to application testers.
• Run Tests: Execute the tests in your test set automatically or manually.
• Analyze Test Results: View the results of your test runs in order to determine whether a defect has been detected in your application. Generate reports and graphs to help analyze these results.

  Defect

• Add Defects: Report new defects detected in your application. Quality assurance testers, developers, Project managers, and end users can add defects during any phase in the testing process.
• Review New Defects: Review new defects and determine which ones should be fixed.
• Repair Open Defects: Correct the defects that you decided to fix.
• Test New Build: Test a new build of your application. Continue this process until defects are repaired.
• Analyze Defect Data: Generate reports and graphs to assist in analyzing the progress of defect repairs, and to help determine when to release the application.

  Test Director Analysis

  Generating Reports: TestDirector reports help you assess the progress of defining requirements and tests coverage, the test plan, test runs, and defect tracking.

• Generating Graphs: TestDirector graphs help you draw conclusions quickly and see the relationships between different types of data in a project.
• Generating Project Documents: The TestDirector Document generator enables you to create a Microsoft Word document containing a project’s requirements, planning, test list, test execution, and defect tracking data.

Project Customization

  ·        Project Customization window to control access to a project by defining the project users and their privileges. It also describes how to customize a project to meet the specific needs of the project users.

Site Administration

  Site Administrator to manage Test Director projects. This includes maintaining projects, users, connections, licenses, servers and configuration parameters.

Features & Benefits of Test Director

• Provides Anytime, Anywhere access to Test Assets: Using Test Director’s web Interface, tester, developers, business analysts and Client can participate and contribute to the testing process.
• Traceability throughout the testing process: Test Cases can be mapped to requirements providing adequate visibility over the test coverage of requirements. TestDirector links requirements to test cases and test cases to defects.
• Manages Both Manual and Automated Testing: TestDirector can manage both manual and automated tests (WinRunner). Scheduling of automated tests can be effectively done using TestDirector.
• Facilitates consistent and repetitive testing process: Central repository for all testing assets facilitates the adoption of a more consistent testing process, which can be repeated throughout the application life cycle
• Provides Analysis and Decision Support: Graphs and reports help analyze application readiness at any point in the testing process. Requirements coverage, run schedules, test execution progress, defect statistics can be used for production planning.
• Provides access privileges to test assets: Role based security provides read or read/write accesses to test assets. Ability to set permissions for a user to modify a defect status. Email notification of defects for different rules can be customized