Using parameters in manual testing

Reference parameters in manual test steps and override their values across test sets or automated executions.

Use parameters in the steps of a manual test case.

Context

• You can use parameters in manual or automated testing with the default values that you set for each test case. Or you can override the default parameter values for the test cases within a test set. For details, see Overriding parameters.
• Manual test cases support only a single default value per parameter. There is no built-in way to define multiple value sets (an iteration or parameter table) for one manual test case. To run a manual test case against different parameter values, create separate test sets, each overriding the parameter to a different value for that test case.
• During the automated execution of a test set, the Studio arguments from the automation (corresponding to each test case) are automatically applied (as parameters) in Test Manager, at test-set level for each test case added in the test set.
• For automated executions, Studio arguments are surfaced in the Override parameters view at the test-set level. They do not appear in the Parameters tab of an individual test case, which is reserved for parameters that you manually create in Test Manager.
• Test Manager parameters are always of type String. Because of this, data is passed from Test Manager to a Studio argument only when that argument is also of type String. If the Studio argument uses a different data type, the value is not passed, even if the names match.

Note:

Test Manager parameters do not automatically map to Studio arguments, even when the names match, and there is no global variable shared across test cases in a test set. Arguments, defined in Studio and overridable at the test-case or test-set level, are the supported mechanism for passing values between test cases. Test Manager does not aggregate test-case data at the test-set level natively; for test-set-level reporting, use an external reporting tool.

Steps

1. Create a new test case.

2. Go to the Manual Steps tab and add manual steps.

3. To reference parameters in the manual steps, enter their name between double curly brackets. For example, to add the username parameter inside a manual step, reference it as {{username}}.

   

Result

The test case references the parameters you added, and the values are applied when the test case is executed.