Test Plan Production for practical use

[Graham_Moir]

I have been trying to produce a test plan 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 date/name order.

Please add a feature to produce practical test plans that match the flow of defined business processes.

Many thanks

[thomaskilian]

Yes, please! Producing a test scenario also means to put the single tests in a certain order. It should not be too hard to produce that with EA.

[gloubi]

I agree with Graham that specifying the order is not easy to configure.

Also, it seems to me the output order is not always consistent with the order you specified in the RTF templates dialog, especially when having checked the flag "Document contained elements" in a diagram (the included elements are never sorted, whatever the options you choose: order elements by name, etc..).

Actually I made a test plan template just as Graham but it was not easy is not yet fully satisfying.