That's why I picked MS Word to write test cases. Then import test case headings to an Excel file. I then used Excel to record test cases execution (P/F), because Excel has built-in function for statistics of text case execution. Btw, it can create graphic reports based on data, i.e. pass or fail. We can include comments in each test case. I think, Excel was created for financial sectors not technical stuff.
Other test management tool looks messy to me. With MS Word, we could write a book with headings and lots of stuff like diagrams. Search - edit - replace are useful, too.
Anyway using MS Word and Excel were kind of manual process to me - not very difficult. If there was good tool out there to automate my process, I would pick a tool with following criteria.
- Allow me to keep MS Word as a test case document. Don't mess it up. I could retrieve it at any time in its original form. Test case document is a product doc [alive as the product life], we must keep it.
- Report of test case execution similar to Excel. We aren't very interested in keeping test case execution doc in Excel, because it is a project document, i.e. obsolete after the project done.
- Update test case and test execution at any time at each test phase.
- Interface shouldn't be too complicated. I don't want a complex tool going down to unit test cases from a requirement specification. Too many things would make it crowded, too much details, and uncomfortable.
- Tool allows loading requirement specification in MS Word format and allow user to download it in original form. We don't want to mess up with developers.
- Matching each test case to each requirement section, function specification, or function description. May be to some requirement words/phrases/sentences requires too much work.
- Generate a test report for a test object with statistics at any time for a manager.
- Fail test cases should include comments by testers.
- Generate a general report for all test objects open in the current project.
P.S. MS Word will be around for a long time, thus our documents are safe. Even if there was a new one, they would allow import/convert MS Word documents.
* A former manager at Guestlogix said that there were more than 50% of companies using Excel to write test cases? Why? Probably their products were too small.
* Probably test management tool was the only project that I would be interested to develop. However, I am no longer interested in running a technology business. Working only would give me time off for something else.
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