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Status Future consideration
Categories Performance
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 4, 2024

Propagate/assign category values from parent objects to created child objects

When a parent object is created and receives a category attribute value and a subsequent object (aka "Child") is created from it, the Child object should automatically have the category attribute populated with the Parent's value.  The following flow contains details to clarify the scope.

  1. Test Plan (TP)/Test Suite (TS) object is created and has the global category attribute (for example ECCN = "9E991") assigned. 
  2. Test Case (TC) object(s) is(are) created and has the same global category attribute (i.e. ECCN = "9E991") assigned.
  3. When the TP-TC or TS-TC are selected to create a Test Case Execution Record (TCER) then the TCER would automatically populate the global category value (i.e. ECCN = "9E991"). 
    The assumption is that all of the parent objects (TP/TS and TC) have the same category values assigned.
  4. When the TCER is executed the Test Case Result (TCR) automatically populates the global category value (i.e. ECCN = "9E991").
  5. This continues for all objects that are generated by ETM's processes/functionality (i.e. attachments, result files, test scripts...).
Idea priority High
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)