Copy (or export/import) scenarios across elements

[Hieu Phan]

Hi Forum,

We have a challenge about copying Scenarios (Steps and Results) across elements. Our situation is:

We use BPMN1.1 to capture business processes in EA, for the <User> Tasks, we capture the steps of human system interaction in the Scenarios tab.

For test management, we use Enterprise Tester to integrate into EA. However, ET only support requirement and testcase importing. Therefore we have to copy all existing scenarios to the scenarios in testcase to import into ET (The 'generate testcase' function in scenarios tab doesn't help when it generate an testcase with empty scenarios tab).

Do you know any way to copy scenarios quickly without using programming API?

Many thanks,
Hieu Phan.

[qwerty]

I guess the API way is the easiest. It would be possible to use a SQL instead but I doubt that would be easier since you have to identify somehow from which UC the scenario shall be transferred to which test case (which is programmatically easier to do than in a complex SQL).

The new V10 has a build-in debugger for VB and JScript. That will make it quite easy to write a custom script.

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[Hieu Phan]

Thanks for the info,

The Debug feature is great, I'm glad it's available in EA10.
Unfortunately, in my company, the policy from the Enterprise Architecture office is that Business Analysts and Testers are not allowed to run scripts in the EA model, as it contains the whole IP of the company and we don't want too much noise added by automatic creations from scripts without rigorous management.
Maybe I should suggest different behaviour for EA when we click 'Generate Testcase' from activity elements.

Cheers,
Hieu Phan.