Plan reordering of Test CAses does not carry over to Run tab

Question

Changing ORDER for suite in PLAN mode does not update Order for RUN mode.

We are at the same server level as MTM level, (2010). Does anyone know for certain that thsi is fixed in VS2012? The support site has several defects regarding this, one still open and one that is closed as being fixed in VS 2012, (next major release)

Answer 1

I took suite with 11 test cases and changed title of last 4 to (8 = 11, 9 = 10, 10 = 2, 11 = 1) and then used "Order" command to update as per new titles.  I entered new number for each of these 4 test cases, moused out of last item and selected "Update Order" icon at top -- it reordered the test cases alright, but not correctly.   11 became 1 (correct), 10 became 3 (INCORRECT), 9 became 10 (correct), 8 became 11 (correct).
I did not save and tried again and was able to reproduce with same steps.  Update order button does not correctly reorder and I don't believe "Apply changes" works either. 

Does anyone know if this is fixed? Does anyone know how I can submit this as a bug against VS 2010?

Thanks !!!

Answer 2

Hi KenexaDave,
 
Thank you for your post.

Based on this case is as same as this one that casued in the same issue, I merge them together, it will be very beneficial for other community members having the similar questions.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Best Regards,

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

Answer 3

KenexaDave,

Can you post the detail steps you do, it will help reproduce the issue?
What is order command?

Regards,

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

Answer 4

here are the steps to reproduce the issue.

Use a suite with multiple test cases. I used one  with 11 test cases.

Change the Order number  of multiple test cases.. I changed the order of last  the last 4. The changes I made were to  change #8  as 11,  change # 9 to 10, change # 10 to 2, and finally change #11 to 1.

I then clicked the 'Order' menu item, which is on teh same  menu line as 'Open', 'Add', 'New', and 'Configurations'

The test cases were reorder but NOT correctly.

The result that I saw was that  11 became 1 (correct), 10 became 3 (INCORRECT), 9 became 10 (correct), 8 became 11 (correct).

Please keep in mind that this incorrect reordering is NOT necesarilly the same issue as the changed reordering not carrying over to the RUN tab.

Thank You.

Answer 5

Hi KenexaDave,

I test the issue, and get the same result as yours. But i can get the right new order via edit all order of all 11 test cases, not just the last 4 test cases. I think test case order have relationship with other test case order, order means this case after which case or before which case, not just mean fill one case in a order, order always arrange like 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., fill case in may lead blank order or duplicate order, so MTM will arrange test cases again based on the original order, so the new order may not the expected result. I suggest you re-order all test cases.

Regards,

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

Answer 6

I'm sorry Lily but I don't think I am understanding how to make this work. My situation...

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Those are my test cases. I need number 7 to become number 2. I went into ORDER in PLAN and changed 7 to 2 and renumbered the old 2-7 to 3-7. It is now properly updated when I look under PLAN. When I go to TEST, they are still in the original order. Looks like you answered the question ( Thus I am posting here rather than starting a new thread ) but the fix seems to escape me. Can you break it down for me? Fortunately, this is a fairly light test so I can just run them in the order I need but I do need to grasp the concept of using reorder as most of my test suites are significantly larger.

Thanks!!

Mike