How to write new test cases for a test plan

prabhat · Post by **prabhat** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:16 am

Steps which i had done
1) Created new test plan
2) Assign user roles
3) Added build management

Now please let me know how can i write new test cases for it?
When ever i click "Add Test Cases" from the right panel, it takes me to the page where test cases are already written and i can add that after clicking on the test case on left panel.

What i want is to write a new test case for every new test plan. How can i do that?

dilbert166 · Post by **dilbert166** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:25 am

usually you would write the testcases first, and then assign them to any number of testplans.
the reason for this ist build a kind of growing repository of testcases to choose from. in our case, we´re usually not releasing new products very often, but make changes to an existing product. so you could re-use cases, you have originally written for the product and and add new ones for the changes we made.

prabhat · Post by **prabhat** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:32 am

Thanks for ur reply.
I have confusion in one line which you had written!
"ou have originally written for the product and and add new ones for the changes we made."

What do u mean by chages we made?

dilbert166 · Post by **dilbert166** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:46 pm

i was relating to the way we develop our software. we´re having a product in the market for 3 years now, and usually the product does not develop in big leaps, but keeps getting smaller features added in a higher frequency. if you have a nice testcase repository for the product, you can make sure that new features will not interfere with the older ones.
so what we usually do is create a test plan full of testcases already run on earlier versions, and simply add new testcases for the new features. so you keep testing old and new functionality and their integration in the process.