Test Board in Test Management 2.0
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Summary of Test Board in Test Management 2.0
The Test Board in Test Management 2.0 provides a comprehensive interface for managing test plans efficiently. It allows users to aggregate and monitor test plans in a centralized location, facilitating easier tracking and management of testing efforts.
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Key Features
- Aggregated View: View all your test plans as cards that display key details including start and end dates, pass/fail rates, and time remaining for completion.
- Search Functionality: Utilize filters to search for specific test plans based on name, duration, or owner.
- Test Plan Structuring: Create and organize test plans through the Planning tab, including breaking them down into test cycles and execution sets.
- Work Item Hierarchy: Access a detailed hierarchy of test plans, cycles, and execution suites, allowing for bulk modifications and progress assessments.
- Gantt Chart: Visualize the timeline of your test plans and child tasks, adjusting durations easily by dragging task bars.
- Custom Columns: Define custom columns to display essential information relevant to your testing process within the Planning tab.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Test Board, ServiceNow customers can streamline their test management process, saving time and enhancing productivity. The platform allows for real-time monitoring of progress and completion, ensuring that testing efforts are organized and effectively executed. This results in improved oversight and control over testing activities, contributing to better product quality and faster release cycles.
Test Board gives you a comprehensive view of your test plans and enables you to manage test plans more efficiently.
- Aggregate all your test plans and view them as cards at a single location. Each card displays key details of your test plan such as the start and end date, percentage of tests that have passed, percentage of tests that have failed, percentage of tests that have been blocked, and number of days left for completion.
- Search for specific test plans by defining filter conditions such as name, duration, or owner.
- Track, manage, and complete your test plans from a single interface, which saves you
time and effort.
- Define how a product or feature must be tested by creating a test plan.
- Structure your test plan in the Planning tab. Break down your test plan into test cycles to plan and schedule the phases of testing effort. Further break down your test cycles into test execution sets, schedule the tests, and assign users to run those tests.
- Monitor the progress and completion of your test plans.
Planning tasks
You can structure a test plan in the Test Board Planning tab, which provides the following capabilities:
- Test plan work item hierarchy
The Test plan work item hierarchy presents a wide variety of test plan information in expandable rows. It provides a quick overview of the test plan, with test cycles and test execution suites nested within the test plan.
In addition, you can:
- Modify the attributes (such as start and end time) of the test plan, test cycles, and test execution suites rather than opening each form and modifying the field values one by one.
- Add or delete test cycles and test execution suites, adjust their start and end dates, and then assess the overall progress of the test plan.
- Configure the columns displayed in the Test plan work item hierarchy.
- Gantt chart
- The Gantt chart provides a visual representation of the timeline of the test plan and its child tasks using a blue task bar. The length of the task bar pertaining to the test plan increases and decreases depending on the adjustments you make to the duration of its child tasks. You can also manually increase or decrease the duration by dragging the edge of the task bar to the required location.