Create Test Plan from Solution or Project

Question

Hi,
When creating a Test Plan does it matter if it is from the Solution or a Project?
thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
I guess the first question should be which version of Solution Manager are you using, 7.0 or 7.1.
The process is typically to create a project, document the business process hierarchy, assign Test Cases to the business process hierarchy, and create a test plan which allows you to select the processes to be tested and the test cases.  If there are no test cases assigned to processes then the test plan cannot be created.
A simple rule is that an Implementation Project is used to implement new business processes and during this project you document the processes including test cases.  These test cases can be assigned to a test plan and executed.  When the project passes the go-live the documentation you have created during the implementation project can be copied to a Solution. This is when the Solution is updated with documentation relating to the productive environment.
From a documentation perspective the Solution will therefore provide all the documentation associated with the productive landscape, including the test cases you have used as a basis for your test documents in the test plan.  When you change a productive business process you can use a maintenance project to check out the documentation from the Solution, change the documentation, and then check in the changed document.
For Test Cases the same logic applies.  If you need to change a Test Case you can check it out to the maintenance project, create a test plan for the maintenance project and perform the testing.
The important note is that the Solution should reflect the productive environment and a project should reflect the project environment.  The benefit is control and traceability.
Regards,
Rich Labib