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TestLink 1.9.18 will be released with important changes regarding how different Test Specification and Requirement Specification will related among then, and with following artifacts:
- test case attachments => test case version attachments
- test case relations => test case versions relations
- test case keywords => test case versions keywords
- requirement attachments => requimente versions attachments
- requirement coverage => requirement versions <-> test case versions links
When the test case version and requirement version concept were introduced, the simple past was to maintain the same old behavior were the main artifacts were the test case and the requirements.
This kind of behavior imposed some limits that were detailed by different users. One company decided to be the sponsor of a new development, that will be the new behavior since TestLink 1.9.18
This concept will be transformed in Test Case Version Attachments Each Test Case Version will have its own attachments.
When creating a new version of a test case, the attachments from the previous version should be copied.
This means that several instance/copies of the same files will exist on the file repository.
If an upgrade to the attachments is needed in a version that can be edited, the outdated attachments will be removed manually and replaced by the updated attachments.
it must not be possible:
a) to delete an attachment from that version of the test case.
b) to add an attachment from that version of the test case.
This concept will be transformed in Requirement Version Attachments Each Requirement Version will have its own attachments.
When creating a new version of a requirement, the attachments from the previous version should be copied.
This means that several instance/copies of the same files will exist on the file repository.
If an upgrade to the attachments is needed in a version that can be edited, the outdated attachments will be removed manually and replaced by the updated attachments.
This concept will be transformed in Test Case Version Keywords Each Test Case Version will have its own keywords.
Keywords will be related to the version of a Test Case, and not to the whole Test Case
When creating a new version of a Test Case, the Keywords from the previous version should be copied. Because older versions will be setted frozen, no action on keywords will be possible.
After a test case version is executed, it must not be possible:
a) to delete a keyword from that version of the test case.
b) to add a keyword from that version of the test case.
This concept will be transformed in Test Case Version Relations Each Test Case Version will have its own relations.
When creating a new version of a Test Case, the Relations from the previous version should be copied.
TCR.NFRZ - The Relation must be frozen, this means that cannot be deleted, when one of the following events will happen:
a). a new version of any of the test case version part of the relation.
b). at the execution of any test case version part of the relation.
Req - Test Case links, will become Req Version - Test Case Versions Links.
This is a raw presentation of future changes, just to allow TestLink users to be alert regarding changes that will get, when upgrading to 1.9.18.
More detailed information is going to be available during the next weeks.
This new behavior will the only available, no options to continue with old behavior will be available. We think this will be a good improvement for TestLink, providing users fine grain control of entities and its relationships.