Associating a child to parent in a test planning hierarchy

Before you begin

You can associate these records in a test planning hierarchy:

About this task

The general rule for associating children to parents is that the association must be upward in the hierarchy. That is, a child record can associate with a parent record, but a parent record cannot create an association to a child record.

Procedure

  1. To create a child-to-parent association:
    1. For a test plan record, click the Test Plans/Test Cases page and click Select to add a reference to the parent test plan record.
    2. For a test case record, click the Main page and click Select to add a reference to the parent test plan record. Click the Execution page to display child configured test case records. Note, to associate a configured test case record with a parent test case record, you must make the association from the configured test case record.
    3. For a configured test case record, click the Main page and click Select to add a reference to a parent test case record.
  2. For the record in which you have created the parent or child association, save the record to the Rational® ClearQuest® database.

What to do next

After creating parent-to-child associations, you can use Rational ClearQuest queries to identify the relationships when evaluating test coverage.

For more information, see About a test planning hierarchy.


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