Sharing Test Assets Across Projects

About Shared Test Assets

Shared test assets let you use assets from one Project to another Project. This can be useful in these situations:

  • When more than one Project needs to use the same test artifacts
  • When testing teams want to be able to access and pin other test artifacts in separate projects as reference.

Share Test Assets in QMetry

QMetry allows sharing test assets across projects. Users can share requirements, test case and issues in other projects. If a test asset is moved to another project, it will no more be available in the source project. All its association in the source project will also be removed.

  • Requirements can be shared through linking with Test Case. 
  • Test Cases can be shared through linking with Requirement & Test Suite.
  • Issues can be shared through linking with Requirement & Test Executions.


Places in QMetry from where test assets can be shared:


Asset Type

Link

From where

Requirement (Detail, Edit page)

Test Case

(Link Test Cases with Requirements)

Test Cases tab > Link

Requirement (Detail, Edit page)

Issue

(Link Issues with Requirements)

Issues tab > Link

Test Case (Detail, Edit page)

Requirement

(Link Requirements with Test Cases)

Requirement tab > Link

Test Suite (Detail, Edit page)

Test Case

(Link Test Execution with Test Cases)

Test Cases section > Link

Test Suite (Detail, Edit page)

Link Test Cases with Test Suite

(Link Test Cases with Test Suite)

Test Cases section > Link Test Case from Requirement

Requirement, Test Case, Test suite

Link above assets to respective bulk assets

Bulk Operations > Edit

Issue (Detail, Edit page)

Requirement

(Link Requirements with issues)

Requirement tab > Link

Test Execution

Issue

(Link Issues with Test Case)

Bug icon on grid


Sharing test assets works like this

For shared test assets, assets from a source project are linked as reference in a destination project. Cross project teams can refer such test assets linked in the destination project in support of original entities.

The linkage stops working if –

  • The linked asset is archived/deleted
  • The linked asset is moved from source project


Also refer to Reuse Test Cases / Shareable Test Cases.