How to: Change the State of a Test Case to Closed

If you accidentally create a test case, or your team no longer needs a test case, you can change the state of the test case to closed using Microsoft Test Manager. Closed test cases are still in your team project, and are displayed in test suites to which they already belong. Test results for closed test cases are not removed. Closed test cases will only appear in the results list for queries that do not exclude closed test cases.

Change the state of a test case to closed

To change the state of a test case to closed

1. Open Microsoft Test Manager.

   Note

   To display the Microsoft Test Manager window, click Start, and then click All Programs. Point to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and then click Microsoft Test Manager 2010.

2. From the Testing Center, click Plan and then click Contents.

   The Contents pane is displayed.

3. Select the test suite in the test suite hierarchy pane that contains your test case.

4. To open the test case to change the state, double-click the test case listed in the Test Suite Details pane.

   Note

   If you just want to remove a test case from a test suite, you can select the test case and click Remove.

5. Click State and then click Closed.

6. (Optional) In the History tab, type Test Case Is No Longer Required to explain why the manual test case is closed.

7. To save your changes, click Save and Close.

   When you view test cases from the test case manager, closed test cases are still displayed. To customize the test case manager to show only open test cases, see the following procedure. For other ways to filter on data columns, see How to: Change and Filter the Data Columns in Microsoft Test Manager.

Customize the test case manager view

To customize the test case manager view

1. Open Microsoft Test Manager.

   Note

   To display the Microsoft Test Manager window, click Start, and then click All Programs. Point to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and then click Microsoft Test Manager 2010.

2. To open the Test Case Manager, click the down-arrow on the center group switcher and click Organize.

3. In the center group menu bar, click Test Case Manager.

   The Test Case Manager is displayed and all the test cases are shown in the list.

   Note

   All active and closed test cases are displayed in this view.

4. To change the query that is used by default to show all the test cases, click Unfiltered and point to Edit filter.

   The Edit filter view is displayed.

5. To add a new clause to the default query for the test case manager to only show the test cases that are not closed, click Click here to add a clause and select the following values for each field:

   And/Or	Field	Operator	Value
   And	State	<>	Closed

6. To add more clauses to your query to customize the test cases returned, click Click here to add a clause.

7. Click each column in the query clause to fill in the clause. If a column has a list of accepted values, a drop-down arrow appears when the column is selected. Click the drop-down arrow to select from the list. The following columns are available:

   Query Column	How to complete
   And/Or	Select And if this clause and the previous clause must be true to match a result. Select Or if either this clause or the previous clause must be true to match a result.
   Field	The list for this field contains all the searchable work item fields used in the current Team Foundation Server. Use as many clauses and fields as you have to have in order to obtain useful results. Press ALT+DOWN ARROW or type the field name that you want to select.
   Operator	Examples of operator choices are = (equal), <> (not equal to), > (greater than), < (less than), >= (greater than or equal to), <= (less than or equal to), In, Was Ever, Was Never, and Contains.
   Value	Specifies the value that you are looking for in the specified field. If there is a list of values to select from, click the drop-down arrow to select the one that you want. Team Foundation work item tracking includes some query variables to dynamically add values to your query. For more information, see Query Variables.

8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 to add all the values for which you want. Then click Save query to save this query as the default query for the test case manager.

   Note

   To clear this query and reset to the original query, click Filtered and point to Reset filter.

See Also

Tasks

How to: Remove a Test Case from a Test Suite

Concepts

Creating Manual Test Cases