Testers

A Tester refers to a member of the test team who will actually be carrying out the tests. A tester entity is created for each member of the team and then these testers are assigned to the individual test cases representing the tests they will be performing.

Note that testers can only be assigned to test cases once the test cases become part of a project. This is to cater for the instance whereby several versions of the software product may be undergoing testing at the same time, but by different test teams. It may be preferable in this situation to use the same test cases in each project, but with different testers.

To create a tester,

Click the ‘Create Tester’ button from the main window

       or

Right click the ‘Testers’ folder in the tree view window and select ‘New tester’.

       or

Click the ‘Create’ menu and select ‘Tester’.

Tester Dialog

Tester ID

This is an ID, which will represent the tester with a maximum size of 64 characters. The ID should obviously be unique and recognizable. IDs are selected in the project test case dialog to assign testers to test cases.

Testers name

The name of this tester

Location

The physical location of the tester. This may be an office name, a city or town name. Whatever makes most sense to your organization.

Remote Access

This section is to allow a tester to access this database from the CGI version of TestLog, if the database has been added to the CGI config file. Once this option has been checked you will be able to set the privileges for the Tester (Read Only, Read/Write or Read/Write/Create) and enter a password that they will use to login to the CGI version.

Figure 3.1 Tester edit dialog