How can I resume an "In Progress" test case without losing my step comments and progress

Question

If I start executing a test case in the Test tab, I may need to put the test case into "in progress" for multiple reasons including functionality is not 100% delivered, or I don't have time to finish it or I have environmental issues to resolve to continue...  If I press the "return to test center" it puts the test case "In Progress" and I need to be able to resume and not lose the info I have already put into the test run.  How can I do this?

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Michele Howard QA Manager

Answer 1

Yes, this one is big discoverability issue. Refer http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gautamg/archive/2011/06/02/faq-how-do-i-resume-my-manual-test.aspx

Thanks.

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http://blogs.msdn.com/gautamg

Answer 2

I did discover this now but I have an associated problem.  If I access a test case and return to the test center and my test case is "in progress", if I try to run a different test case, that "in progress" test case is either moved to "passed" or "failed".

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Michele Howard QA Manager

Answer 3

To avoid this issue i always click on the "Save".

So i do not miss the comments on the steps.

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Test Analyst in Mobile Vision Paulo Tiago C. Mariano

Answer 4

I'm wondering if this has been reported to Microsoft and hoping there is an update/patch for this bug.  It would really be helpful to be able to save and close a running test and resume to it at a later time without it failing.   Anyone know about the status of this?

Answer 5

Hi,

If you are talking about the ability to pause a session in test runner and then resume it even after restart, etc. please vote for it at

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2038995-allow-tests-to-be-paused-allow-other-tests-to-be-

Thanks