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Hello.
I want to know what is the purpose of execution type and what is the diference between manual and automatic.

Thanks for your help.

jarredondo wrote:Hello.
I want to know what is the purpose of execution type and what is the diference between manual and automatic.

A manual test should be executed by a person, an automatic one is automatically executed (by a framework, a specific tool or other).

I wonder what the relation is with "Run mode" (can be seen in the test results) and the "execution type".
It looks like the "Run mode" always shows "manual", no matter what "execution type" selection is used for a specific test case.

ericschlameisen wrote:I wonder what the relation is with "Run mode" (can be seen in the test results) and the "execution type".
It looks like the "Run mode" always shows "manual", no matter what "execution type" selection is used for a specific test case.

It is interesting me too. Should I use by importing of test results some special XML element for the run mode automatic?

Thank You!

Hi, I experienced the same problem today... I found what to do in resultsimport.php ! I know the original post is probably not waiting for an answer (maybe found it on his own) but I post it here as a "documentation". Maybe this will save someone else the time to find it too!

Simply add this in your xml results (2 for automated) :
<execution_type>2</execution_type>

I use TestLink 1.9, I don't know if this works in other versions.

Well, when your creating a testcase ypou can set the execution type to manual or automatic. For automatic usually , this is configured with API, say when you configure you testcases aliging to testlink API and integrated with selenium, when you run the selenium, after the execution is completed, all the results would automatically update the exuction status either with pass/fail according to your framework/API.

This is what the information iam having on this