Estimation and My Actual Time Spent are now available as columns (Time Estimated and Time Spent) in the Requirements grid.
My Actual Time Spent is now shown in hours and minutes instead of minutes only.
Requirements are the goals a piece of software must achieve in order to be accepted. For example, the Requirements of a website might be that it works on devices and is usable across browsers. Plutora Test allows users to create any number of Requirements that can be reused in multiple tests.
Plutora Test allows users to add or edit any number of Requirements, so they can be reused in multiple tests.
Also see how to Quick Search and Advanced Search, Filter Requirements, Duplicate Requirements, and Delete Requirements.
Add or Edit a Requirement
To add or edit a Requirement:
- Click Requirements.
- Add or edit a Requirement:
- Click to select a user group or user from the Assigned to drop-down menu.
- Type a Requirement ID.
- Type a Requirement Name. (Mandatory field.)
- Type a Requirement Description.
- Manage Categories:
- Add a Category:
- Click to select a category from the Categories drop-down menu.
- Delete a Category:
- Click the X on the Category.
- Click Confirm.
- Add a Category:
- Add an attachment using Plutora Test Chrome Plug-In:
To manage attachments, users need the Attachment View / Download, Attachment Access, Attachment Create, and Attachment Delete user permissions.- Add a screenshot:
- Click the black camera icon.
If the camera icon has a red dot, Plutora Test Chrome Plug-In is not installed. Click here to see the installation instructions. (You must also be using Google Chrome browser.) - Manage the screenshot using the toolbar. The tools from left to right are:
- Edit the screenshot title:
- Annotate the screenshot with the following tools:
- Selection: Select and move annotations.
- Crop: Select this tool, draw a rectangle around the area you want to keep, and click Confirm Crop.
- Arrow: Draw an arrow.
Arrows, text, rectangles, ellipses, and free draws will use the color selected in the Color tool (see below). - Text: Click to drop text and click the text to edit.
- Rectangle: Draw a rectangle.
- Ellipse: Draw a circle or oval.
- Free Draw: Draw a line.
- Undo: Undo the last action.
- Redo: Redo the last action.
- Delete: Deletes an annotation that has been selected using the Selection tool.
- Color: Click to select a color for your annotations. The button on the right opens a color wheel so you can select a color that isn’t in the menu.
- Selection: Select and move annotations.
- Click Download to download the file to your computer.
- Click Save to Attachments to save the file to Plutora Test.
- Click the X to close the pop up without saving the screenshot.
- Click the black camera icon.
- Add a video:
Videos created from Plutora Test’s Screen Capture are now saved in AWS, meaning that an unlimited number of 25 MB videos can be saved as attachments.- Click the black video icon.
If the video icon has a red dot, Plutora Test Chrome Plug-In is not installed. Click here to see the installation instructions. (You must also be using Google Chrome browser.) - Click to select which application window should record.
- Click Share.
- Click Start Recording.
- Click Stop to end the recording.
- Edit the video title:
- Click Record New Clip to discard the current video and record a new one.
- Click Download to download the file to your computer.
- Click Save to Attachments to save the file to Plutora Test.
Plutora Test can accept attachments up to 25 MB in size. If the video is larger, it cannot be saved as an attachment, but you can still download it. - Click the X to close the pop up without saving the video.
- Click the black video icon.
- Add a screenshot:
- Add an attachment manually:
To manage attachments, users need the Attachment View / Download, Attachment Access, Attachment Create, and Attachment Delete user permissions. - Manage uploaded attachments:
Uploaded attachments are now sorted in descending order by upload date.- View an attachment:
- Download an attachment:
- Delete an attachment:
- Manage Test Coverage:
- Add a Test Plan Association:
- Click to select a Test Plan from the drop-down menu.
- Delete a Test Plan Association:
- Click the X on the Test Plan Association.
- Click Confirm.
- Add a Test Plan Association:
- Manage Dependencies:
A Dependency is a relationship between the Requirement and another Requirement. For instance, the Requirement may be Required For another Requirement.- Add a Dependency.
- Delete a Dependency.
- Manage Time (while editing a Requirement only):
*NEW* Estimation and My Actual Time Spent are now available as columns (Time Estimated and Time Spent) in the Requirements grid.- Estimation: Add the estimated time the Requirement will take.
- Spent / Remaining Time: Shows the actual time spent versus the estimated time.
- My Actual Time Spent: Add the actual time spent so far.
*NEW* My Actual Time Spent is now shown in hours and minutes, not just minutes.
- Click the pen icon.
- Click the day in the calendar.
- Type the Hours spent.
- Type the Minutes spent.
- Click Save & Close.
- Manage Comments (while editing a Requirement only):
To manage comments, users need the Comments View, Comments Create, and Comments Update user permissions.
- Add a comment by typing your comment in the Your comment… field and clicking Send.
- Click Edit to edit your comment.
- Click Reply to reply to a comment.
- To tag a User, so that your tagged comment appears in their Comment Stream:
- Click to select the Project/Release that the Requirement is associated with.
- The fields under the Project/Release drop-down menu are custom fields created using the Requirements Custom Fields Customization. Ask your administrator how to fill them in.
- Multi-select custom fields now contain checkboxes for easy selection. Selected items in multi-select custom fields can now be deleted without opening the menu by clicking on the X next to each item.
View Activity History
Click the clock-shaped button on the top right of the pop up to view the Activity History of the record. To see more information about Activity History, click here.