Add Existing Test Case to User Story

[Anon Anon]

Currently we are using Rally as our repository for test cases. If I have a user story, rather than writing a test case for that user story, I'd like to be able to add and existing test to it. I do not see that this is possible outside of scheduling a test set and adding it to the iteration which isn't always what I'd like to do. If I already have test cases under the user story that I have written, I'm not sure I understand why I'd want to schedule a test set for that particular iteration?

[Anon Anon]

Hi Andrew, 
Test cases can only be directly associated to one workproduct at a time.  To assocaite an existing test case to a story, you would do this by editing the Test case, and click the work product link to select the item in which you want associated.  To have multiple test cases associated to a story, you would need to create the test cases from the Test case link in the left sidebar of the story detail page.  This would associate all the test cases to the story.    In the event you want the same test associated to more than one work product, you would need to copy the test case and associate the copy.  
Test Sets are designed to be used for regression testing - where you would repeat the tests in more than one iteration.  In this way, you can group the tests together, then the Test set can be scheduled into mulitple iterations.  

[Anon Anon]

That is a lousy solution to only allow a test case to match to one work product, then ask users to make duplicate test cases. Clearly a test case can test 2 or more work products and should be able to track to both directly.

[Legacy User]

agreed, a test case can apply to multiple work products and the complaint and what keeps my group from fully embracing Rally is the insane limitation.  Financial systems are a good example where a single test case can apply to several work products.  

 

There have been changes love to hear about those.