Test Management or Test Management 2.0 ...?

[JanickeE]

I am currently assessing the Test Management plug-in for use in our team. Our needs are simple; we are responsible for multiple applications for a number of customers. Most of our testing is automated, but we need some manual testing before deploying into production. (Not sn apps, btw!) These need to be stored and re-used before the next deploy.

Test Management pros: Easy to arrange tests into sets/suites and assign tests to users.

Test Management cons: One test can only belong to one suite. The test step form is unwieldy and could do with an option to have check-lists instead, (like the test used in Test Management 2.0.) Would be nice to be able to run a single test or a test-set directly from Test/Test Set as well.

Have also had a quick look at Test Management 2.0 as part of this assessment.

Test Management 2.0 pros: Tests are easy to create, a singe test can be run on the fly and the test runner is nifty and elegant.

Test Management 2.0 cons: I have not been able to assign tests and run a test set while assessing TM 2.0 on my dev instance. Can you really only run tests when Test Management 2.0 is installed with Agile og PPM?  There are no videos or anything online that I can find that actually shows TM 2.0 in action. And why do test plans have to be broken down into cycles AND test execution suites with no option to run tests from the test plan?

My question is simply: Will Test Management be supported and developed further in years to come? Or is everything thrown at Test Management 2.0 as of now?

Any thoughts or sharing of experiences with both tools are warmly welcome.

[Sylvia10]

Hi Susan,

Is it possible for me to call or email you to further discuss how you are using TM 1.0?

[SusanWinKY]

Hi Sylvia, sure!  My email address is in my Community profile.

[Sylvia10]

Hi Susan, I was not able to locate your email address in the Community Profile. Please advise.

[SusanWinKY]

Oops, here it is:  

susan.williams@lexmark.com

[SusanWinKY]

Janicke, I'm curious if you proceeded with 2.0 or not.  We're doing another round of evaluation and are still hindered by lack of functionality in 2.0.  Did you end up using it, building any customizations, sticking with original Test Management, etc.??