Utility to edit multi-line test steps

Question

I have put together a small utility for editing multi-line actions and expected results in test steps. Please let me know if you find it useful!

http://teststepseditor.codeplex.com/

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-Aidan

Answer 1

thank, this works well and very usefull!

Answer 2

this is definitively a good thing!

anyways, few things to add:

suggestion: when pressing SHIFT+ENTER to add new line in the step, it is not visually refreshing. only when i hit ENTER (jumping to next step), the view is updated.

suggestion: vs2010 does not display the next line of the saved testcase. thanks god testmanager does.

BIG SUGGESTION: why the ____, whyyy the ____ this is not by default in vs 2010? in history of WI you get formatting, you get bullet lists, you get colors... and NOW we are so happy, in the year 2010, that we can have more text lines in one test step? please... in our 2008 projects, we had huge MHT files with nested bullet lists in one test step. how the ____ are we supposed to use this vs 2010 ____ now? is it really so hard to code such functionality???

note: when importing old testcases (mht), it also supports "next line" in one test step...

Answer 3

I just completed the first stable release of the tool. It now supports:

• Adding and deleting steps
• Editing test cases that include shared steps
• Editing shared steps themselves

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-Aidan

Answer 4

Hi Aidan,

 

Thanks for this excellent utilty, but could the key combination be same as one used in Excel . I donot know if I am asking for too much but I am sure it will bring it closer to being more user friendly!

Also, looks like there is an issue when using the arrow keys as while using them the if becomes difficult to come to the first line in the cell from the end of the line.

It still is a nifty tool but then again..any possibility of it becoming embedded into VSTS ? Donot know why they missed it in the first place.

Answer 5

Hi Billa Bong,

For the Excel shortcut keys, which ones specifically were you looking for?

Can you describe the arrow key issue in more detail? What actually occurs and what are you expecting to occur?

As far as embedding in the VSTS Test Manager: unfortunately the classes are internal that need to be inherited in order to integrate into the UI. The Test Scribe plugin uses these classes, but in order to allow it, Microsoft distributes new versions of the core classes that allow the Test Scribe to have access to the core class internals. For 3rd-party developers to write plugins, Microsoft will need to make the core classes public.

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-Aidan

Answer 6

New version posted, supports copy/paste, search/replace, and has tabs to edit multiple cases.

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-Aidan

Answer 7

New version posted. Added a random string generator and fixed several UI and settings glitches.

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-Aidan

Answer 8

New version posted, now supports publishing of Results, with the ability to attach screenshots to each action result!

http://teststepseditor.codeplex.com

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-Aidan