MTM Home test plan listing: can we nest this list?

Question

When I go my MTM Home page and select a test plan from the list, my list is getting pretty long. Is there any way I can organize my test plans to fall under categories so I can group my test plans to make this selection list smaller?

Answer 1

I dont think there is such functionality but you can post your idea on http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio

Thanks,

Anuj

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Answer 2

I don't understand why MTM is designed with only one (small) list to hold all the test plans in the Testing Center Home page?  I think almost all IT shops would be creating hundreds of test plans and this single list quickly becomes difficult to try and navigate through. A nested structure would have helped a lot.

Answer 3

Hi rfresh,

Thank you for your post.

Seems select test plan windows size cause little problem for you. Sorry for any inconvenience.

For current release, the select test plan size is by design, cannot re-size it. But there are scroll bars help drop down/up the test plan list.

I suggest you submit a feedback about re-size selete test plan window to Visual Studio UserVoice site (http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio). Microsoft engineers will evaluate them seriously.

Regards,

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Lily Wu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

The list may be long, but you can use the filter features on most columns like owner, area path etc.

Answer 5

To work around this I create an archive test plan and move the test cases into this plan, then delete the originals.

Answer 6

MTM provides a plain list of Test Plans for each Team Project, I would expect most IT shops would have at least a couple of team projects.
Larger and long running projects/products might come up into hundreds of test plans, but it would typicaly take several years before you come close to 100 test plans for a project/product,