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Status Future consideration
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 8, 2025

Enable Naming Convention Enforcement for Test Cases in ETM

Teams requires the ability to enforce a naming convention for test cases in Engineering Test Management (ETM). Currently, there is no out-of-the-box option in ETM to enforce naming standards or like applying a regex-based validation on the “Test Case” name field.

The customer explored a workaround by developing custom preconditions and follow-up actions, but the test case name attribute is not accessible within these extensions. As a result, enforcing naming conventions at creation or modification time is currently not achievable.

This enhancement request is to allow access to the Test Case name attribute within custom preconditions and follow-up actions, and/or to introduce a built-in capability in ETM to enforce naming patterns using regular expressions.

Idea priority Low
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool