assign one testcase to multiple testers

[antia]

Hi everyone:

I have searched disscussions about this subject in the forum, so I know the feacture is not avalible yet.
However, in my case I need to assign one testcase to several testers that will run the testcase on their own computers because we hope to test the product on random computer.

I saw some people's solution is that add another test plan then add the same test cases to the test plan so they can assign them to another tester.
I tried this, but I realize that the results of different testers won't showed in the same test result or matrix, So that will be very hard to compare the result from different testers.

I try to use "plateform" to do this, so the results are showed together, but I am very new to TestlLnk and testing. So I wonder if someone have used the same way to solve this and if this method cause some problems?

Of course, if someone have better way to do this, I will be very grateful to your sharing.

ps: Is the feature "Query Metrics" avalible in TL ver. 1.9.4?

[fman]

http://www.teamst.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6981

[StephenP]

Re: platforms. I haven't used them much myself, but this is indeed the sort of situation they are intended for. Did you have a reason for thinking they might cause problems?

[antia]

Re: platforms. I haven't used them much myself, but this is indeed the sort of situation they are intended for. Did you have a reason for thinking they might cause problems?

I plan to use Platforms together with testers so the platform will be showed after tester's name. Somehow I feel it maybe will cause problems when I have different testers testing different part of testcases on different platform + differents testers testing the same set of testcases - when those two things happen at the same project.

[StephenP]

I'm not completely sure what you want to do. Do you mean that some test cases are to be run on multiple platforms, while others are to be run on only one, but it doesn't matter which one?

You could for example define platforms "HP desktop", "Dell laptop", "Acer laptop" and "Windows generic". You then assign some test cases to all of the first three platforms, and the rest of the test cases to "Windows generic" (only). Does this help?