Lesson 4: Save and run the view

In this lesson, you save the Traceability: feature - test environment view that you created and modified in the previous lessons, and then run it to see how the team members run the view. After you confirm that the view shows all the artifacts that are relevant to your project, you can share the view with your team.

Procedure

  1. Save the Traceability: feature - test environment that you created and modified in the previous lessons.
    Click Save and Close.
    Save the view.
    Views are saved in the My views folder.
  2. To run the view, go to Views > Browse > My views, and click Traceability: feature - test environment.
    The new view in the My views folder.
  3. Share the view with your team.

    Go to Views > Browse > My views, select the Traceability: feature - test environment view, and click Move or Copy selected views button Move or Copy selected views. In the dialog box, select the move option. Specify where to save the view in the Shared views folder, and click Ok.

    Remember: Access of moving and deleting views is restricted. Only view creators can complete the following operations:
    • Move views from the Shared views folder and its subfolders to other locations (My views and subfolders of Shared views folder).
    • Delete views from the Shared views folder and its subfolders.

    If you are not a view creator and try to move or delete the views, an error message is shown.

Results

The Traceability: feature - test environment view is now saved in the Shared views folder, and team members can run the view to trace the relationships among features, test cases, test results, and test environments. Team members can use the view to focus on specific artifacts, by selecting specific nodes, and running dependency analysis.