How to install testlink on windows

Admin is the default credential. Due to unsuccessful login, an error page is displayed. Error may occur due to wrong combination of email id or password. Following screenshot shows the error message, the user receives if the credentials are not correct.

On successful login, the system dashboard will display if the account is associated with any project by admin or if you can create a sample project. To add a project, you should have Admin role. Once you log in for the first time as an Admin, TestLink opens the Create a new project form.

You cannot see any other page until the project is created or assigned to you. Usually to create a project, an option is available at the Test Project Management menu as shown in the following screenshot. It allows to select which features you want such as Requirement, Automation, etc.

After logging into TestLink, Dashboard is the first page that is displayed as soon as you are assigned to a project. Dashboard is customized by Admin. Based on the roles, admin can set the access of TestLink. These links are used to navigate to the respective functionality. The navigation bar contains the links that provide a quick access to the most useful functions of TestLink. These categories present different links for quick access to all the features of TestLink. On the top left side of the screen, a Search functionality is available while on the right side, there is a Test Project dropdown.

My Settings icon is present at the top left corner of the screen as the first icon. Following screenshot shows the My Settings icon encircled in red. Once you click the icon, it opens the settings page where various information is available to update. First, there is Personal Data where you can update your first name, last name, email id or Locale. The logout icon is present at the top left side of the screen, beside the My Settings icon.

After clicking the Logout icon, you can go back to the login page and the active session ends. To utilize all TestLink features, you have to login again. To create a Project, you should have Admin permissions.

Following are the steps to create a Project. It allows to select the features that you wish such as Requirement, Automation, etc. You can update the details in any of the sections and click the Save button. It will display all the available projects along with a delete icon in red at the right corner as shown in the following screenshot.

It will display a warning message for deletion along with an advice to deactivate rather than delete a project. Following screenshot displays the same. It will refresh the page and the project will be removed from the list.

In the Inventory, you can list all hardware details required in the project. To access this feature, you should enable it while creating a project or in the edit project page. It will open a pop-up form to define a device data. Once you click Save, a new row gets added along with all the entered details as shown in the following screenshot. It will ask for confirmation to delete. You will receive a successful deletion message and the row gets deleted as shown in the following screenshot.

Test planning, is the most important activity to ensure that there is initially a list of tasks and milestones in a baseline plan to track the progress of the project. It also defines the size of the test effort. It is the main document often called as the master test plan or a project test plan and is usually developed during the early phase of the project. If any test plan is listed for the project, it displays the list of test plans.

Otherwise, it displays a message to create a test plan to support the test execution functionality. Generally, a test plan consists of the following information.

Deliverables that are part of the testing process, such as test plans, test specifications and test summary reports. Defining the environmental requirements such as hardware, software, OS, network configurations, and tools required.

Testlink supports images, table, links, special characters, etc. It will be visible to other users as well who are linked with this project. If this checkbox is unchecked, only the person who has created can use and view this document. Once you click Create, you can see the added Test Plan along with a few icons at the extreme right of screen as seen below.

These icons are delete the test plan, export links to the test cases and platform, import links to the test cases and platform, Assign Role and test execution from left to right as displayed in below screenshot.

The name of the Test Plan is present in the first column and it is hyperlinked as shown in the following screenshot. You can edit the name, description, and selection of Active and Public mode.

This feature is available in the edit mode only. However, attaching a file option is not available. If a test plan is deleted, it deletes both the test plan and all of its corresponding data.

Data includes test cases, results, etc. To achieve the objective of a Release, there could be multiple builds. Build is always associated with only one Release.

A build fulfills the partial objective of Release with limited functionalities. In TestLink, test execution is made up of both builds and test cases. Each build is related to the active Test Plan.

Inactive builds are not listed on the execution and reports pages. Ensure that the Build date must is within the Release Timeline. To edit a build, you should have Edit Builds permission. Test Specification defines the structure of Test Design. Creation of Test Suits and Cases are done through test specification.

However, one project can have only one test specification. After navigating to test specification, Filters are displayed on the left side panel of the screen. Filters help out to narrow down the search and provide unique test cases.

It supports Any, Help, Medium and Low. It supports Any, Manual or Automated option. Reset Filters button will remove all selection in default mode. When you click the name, it displays the details of the project in edit form, where you can update the project details. After the name, it displays Project Description and Attached files. It supports a feature to add an attachment. You can browse and upload the file to the project.

It supports max Bytes. You can upload up to a maximum size of the file. You can upload multiple files to the project. At the top of the screen, there is a settings symbol , called Actions.

Test suite is a container that has a set of tests which helps the testers in executing and reporting the test execution status. It can take any of the three states namely Active, In progress, and Completed.

A test case can be added to multiple test suites and test plans. After creating a test plan, test suites are created, which in turn can have any number of tests. TestLink supports tree structure for test suites.

There could be multiple sub-test suites under a test suite. You can assign them based on relation. Once you click Save, you will see the test suite in tree structure on the left side panel of the screen. The details are available on the right side of the screen.

This functionality allows creating a duplicate of a Test Suite or reordering of the structure. The Copy button will copy the test suite in both of the projects, while the move button will move the test suite from the current project to the target project. It will open Test suite Operations. The page will be refreshed and the test suite will be deleted from the Tree structure on the left side panel of the screen. A test case is a document, which has a set of test data, preconditions, expected results and post-conditions, developed for a particular test scenario in order to verify compliance against a specific requirement.

Test case acts as the starting point for test execution, and after applying a set of input value the application has a definitive outcome and leaves the system at some endpoint, also known as execution post-condition. You can assign them based on the relation. Once you click the Create button, you can see the test case in the tree structure on the left side panel as well as the details are available on the right side of the screen.

This functionality allows creating a duplicate test case or reordering of the structure. In this installation process, we will be using the in-built web installer a step-by-step installation wizard.

The web installer is the default and recommended method of installing TestLink. TestLink is web-based test management and test execution system. It enables QA teams to create and manage test cases as well as to organize them into Test plans. Using TestLink, testers can execute test cases and track test results dynamically.

Then, press Enter. Click phpAdmin at the right top corner of the screenshot. Till this point, all the pre-requisites are successfully installed in the system. Place the TestLink folder here as shown in the following screenshot. It will display the installation page of TestLink. The system will check the pre-requisites to ensure everything is fine.

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