Best practices | TestCases | Progress

All TestCases have a property called TestCaseWorkState, and we strongly recommend that you use it to track your progress. Especially in team environments.

If your project uses pre-execution approval, you can't change the TestCaseWorkState. Tosca does this automatically, depending on where your TestCase is in the approval process.

Understand why it's so important

Tracking your progress is extremely important, for several reasons:

• It makes progress visible to your team, which lets you better organize, prioritize, and report on your efforts.

• It ensures that Requirements show the correct test coverage. All TestCaseWorkState property values translate to a specific coverage percentage. When you check the state of your project, this tells you how far along the tests are that cover your biggest business risks.

• It makes open items easier to track, especially in projects with messy folder structures. You can use Tosca's TQL search to find TestCases with a particular state. For example, to find all new TestCases that still need designing, use the search query =>SUBPARTS:TestCase[TestCaseWorkState=="PLANNED"].

Track your progress

Every new TestCase starts off with the TestCaseWorkState as PLANNED. Make sure to change the property value as you go along:

• Set it to IN_WORK when you start working on the TestCase.

• Set it to COMPLETED once you're done. Typically, you're done when the TestCase is finished enough to become part of a larger test set in an ExecutionList.

What's next

If you haven't yet, check out our other best practices articles.