First Steps

A short, 15 minutes guide to your first test case in TestResults.io

To understand the TestResults.io Test Automation Workflow better, it is suggested that you use the Playground project and play around with the different entities in that specific place. Once you understand the dependencies you can easily delete the Playground project and start testing. This shouldn't take you longer than 15 minutes.
The steps in this tutorial are also available as a guided tour which can be started in the portal from the help (?) menu with Start Tutorial.
To start with this tutorial, please select 
 from your project list, you should see a screen similar to  this
Starting from here, we will follow three simple steps to create our execution environments, create a test case and finally a test set to execute this test case.
Step 1 – Execution Environment (7 minutes)
An execution environment always consist of a Subject Under Test, your software, and a Test Environment, the system your software should be tested on. In the simplest case your Subject Under Test is a web page which is tested on a pre-installed browser.
Setup your Subject Under Test
Click on 
in the top navigation menu, this brings you to the "Software and Environments" screen
Click on  
 , this opens the "Add a new Software Version to be tested" dialog 
 

Enter the following details:
   Identifier: 1.0 
   Name: TestResults.io 
   Installation Type: Webpage
   URL: https://demo.testresults.io
Click on 
 to register this software version
Setup your Test Environment
Click on 
 to open the "Add predfined Test Environment" dialog 
 
Select Windows 10 - Firefox in the Name drop down. Leave the Installed SW drop down at No preinstalled Software Version
Click on 
 to register this test environment
Compare your result
If everything worked out for you, your screen should look like this
Step 2 — Test Case (5 minutes)
A test case always links directly to exactly one test plan. A test plan can have multiple revision. 
As we need a test plan document for this step, please download the prepared test plan before you continue and memorize the place you stored it.
test-plan-example.txt
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Example Test Plan (text-only)
Upload your Test Case
Click on 
in the top navigation menu, this brings you to the "Test Cases" screen
Click on 
, this opens the "New Test Case" dialog 
 
Enter the following details
   Identifier: TRIO-TC-1.0 
   Name: Test TestResults.io login 
   Description: This test case will test that the login to TestResults.io's demo web page works
Click on 
to register the new test case
On the automatically opened "Test Case Details" screen you can click the upload icon (
) for the "Test Case Plan Document". Select the Example Test Plan you have downloaded at the beginning of this step.
Click on 
 to indicate that you started working on the automation for this test case.
Compare your result
If everything worked out for you, your screen should look like this
Step 3 – Test Set (3 minutes)
To execute a test case it needs to be included in at least one test set.
Create your Test Set
Click on 
 on the "Test Case Details" screen, this opens the "Include in Test Sets" dialog.
Click on 
 , this will allow you to enter the name of a new test set. Use the following information:
   Name: First 
Click on the 
 button to add the new test set
Click on 
 to add the current test case to the new test set
Compare your result
If everything worked out for you, your screen should look like this
Conclusion
In the last 15 minutes you have create a dedicated test environment, uploaded a test case plan and added it to a test set for the first time. Congratulations, good job!
To make this more interesting, TestResults.io includes a special mode. If you followed the instruction step-by-step, you should now be able to execute the uploaded test case and see the results as if it would be executed as a real test.
As an unguided exercise: Open your test set (hint: click on "First"), select test environment and your software version and press execute. Sit back, relax and see the results, as they come in.
If you want to have the full walk-through you should continue with the part where you actually learn how to automate a test case with the designer. Click here to continue.
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