Test Plan production from EA (EA 6.1)

[Graham_Moir]

Perhaps I've missed something but I have been trying to produce a report which can essentially be used to execute an actual system test, where the test will simulate the business processes/activities.    

Part of the requirement for this therefore is to be able to output the tests defined for elements within the EA model in the sequence flow order shown in activity/analysis diagrams.   However I can't seem to achieve this which means the practicality of running a test using EA information is heavily undermined.

I've tried 2 routes.  One is the "testing report" on the Project/Documentation menu which helps up to a point - I can select all "system" tests for example,  however the sort order of this report is not clear to me but seems to be project browser tree order (which isn't the same as activity diagram sequence flow).   I've also tried the RTF report generator,  but this seems to constrain you to sorting either in tree order, or name order.

Anyone any ideas ?
thanks

[thomaskilian]

I once have been at this point and did not find an answer. If you do, please let me (and others) know!

[mikewhit]

Formulate a Feature Request ....

[Graham_Moir]

Done - HTML feature request submitted direct to Sparx and the same item added to the "Suggestions and Requests" forum.

[thomaskilian]

Formulate a Feature Request ....
 

Quite surely I did this eons ago with obviously no success.

[Graham_Moir]

Well, if more people request it perhaps the weight of opinion will actually prompt Sparx to add it !

[gloubi]

I include at the end of this post the answer I've just given in another post of you.

If you want to produce a test plan, there are several issues you are faced to:
* the customization of the template style and element types - please see the included post hereunder concerning that question
* the effective included elements.  All in a tree (then it is easy) or just selected elements (then draw a diagram containing them and follow the procedure described in the included post hereunder).
* the order.  
- If you generate a RTF based on a tree, then the order is specified by
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?rtftemplatesdialog.htm
- If you generate a RTF based on the elements included in a diagram (using the flag "document contained elements in a RTF"), then the order in EA6.1 is the order in which you inserted the elements in the document and specifying the order in the RTF template editor has no effect  (which is a bug to me because if you specify these elements to be inserted by name, then they should be).

R -

----Included referenced post-------------------------------------------------
There are two alternatives:
* in the screen below, click the button "manage templates" and when asked, copy the testing template
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?rtftemplatesdialog .htm
* the more tricky solution, used if you want to have only the items in a diagram is described hereunder :


1/ You have to draw a diagram including  
* each use case you want, each one having its tests defined using the test view (menu view->testing)
* the test cases you want to include in your test documentation

2/ double-click in an empty place on the diagram to open the diagram properties and check the flag "Document each element contained in a RTF"

3/ Make a template (same procedure as the manage template procedure desribed above)
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/EAUserGuide/index.html?rtftemplatesdialog .htm
The trick here is that when defining the template you have to check the "package element" in the RTF style editor.

[Graham_Moir]

Again - thanks for this info,  although all I want to do is generate a document with my tests in it in the order of a business process activity diagram to make execution of the test easier.  

What you suggest seems as though it will achieve what I want, but it does seem very longwinded (and error prone in that I have to be careful about the order I do things/place elements on the diagram) for what to me is a simple and practical requirement.  

I already have a diagram of course - an activity/analysis diagram of a business process - with all the elements on it that I'm interested in, and tests associated with each activity element.   However I can't seem to produce easily a test plan with tests in the order of the sequence flow on the diagram,  and it seems perverse that I have to create another diagram to achieve that.

[gloubi]

I agree it is not easy