Getting started

Test Perspective manages manual tests with three simple building blocks:

• Test Sheet = one Confluence page that groups test cases.
• Test Case = one Test Case and Execution Macro (called test macro in this guide) placed on the page.
• Test Step = one row in the macro, describing a single action and its expected result.

See the Glossary for all terms.

Prerequisites

• You can edit the Confluence page. (Inserting the macro requires page edit mode; running tests and recording results work on the published page.)
• The app is not supported on Blog pages.

Create a test case

1. In page edit mode, place the Test Case and Execution Macro anywhere on the page.

   1. Type /test for a quick selection.

2. Press the Add step button in the macro toolbar to add a test step.

3. Enter the test operation in the Action column and the expectation in the Expected column.

For inserting, reordering, and deleting steps, see Editing test steps.

Execute a test

1. For each step, run the test and record the outcome in the Result column. The Result column offers Pass, Fail, Skip, and Clear (no result). Each value is color-coded (Pass in green, Fail in red, Skip in blue) so you can see progress at a glance.
2. Editing the Result column records the current date and time in the Tested Date column.
3. To attach an image or video as evidence, drag and drop a file into the Image column. Click a thumbnail to open a preview; the attachment can be deleted from the … menu in the preview. For clipboard paste, video playback, downloading, and image annotation, see Attachments and image editing.

Note

• The toolbar shows a Steps-Passes-Fails-Skips summary of the current test case. When every step has passed or been skipped (no failures), a completion checkmark is shown.
• Click the Open the macro in a popup icon in the toolbar to open the test macro in a full-screen dialog, which is useful when a test case has many steps.

Check progress across pages

Open Apps → Test Perspective in the space sidebar to see all test sheets and test cases in the space, with their progress. See Test Sheet List & Test Case List.

How to re-test

To run the same tests again, copy the test sheet from the Test Sheet list. The copy keeps the test case definitions (such as Action and Expected) and clears the execution results.

Note

Attachments are not copied. Steps marked Skip stay Skip in the copy.

See How to re-test for all copy options and for clearing results in place.