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Using Excel reports with Microsoft Test Manager to identify test state at a test plan level

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From Microsoft Test Manager, it is possible to identify the state of test cases (pass, fail, blocked etc) for a particular test suite. You can just select the test suite on the left side and the right pane would show all test cases with their test status.

Figure 1 – Selecting a test suite shows the state of all test cases in that test suite

However, getting the same information at a test plan level is not easy. In the Test Plan properties view, you can see a pie chart indicating the state of all test cases in a given test plan.

Figure 2 – Pie chart in test plan properties indicating overall state of all test cases in the test plan

But, it is not possible to drill down deeper to identify which if the test cases are failing in the test plan.

The workaround – Creating your own Excel Reports

The workaround is to create a report in Excel. In Excel, you can create a new report as shown below:

Figure 3 – Excel report showing state of all test cases (grouped by configurations) in a test plan

Figure 4 – You can drill down to identify failing test cases in a particular test plan

Steps to create this Excel Report

Figure 5 – The PivotTable used to create the Excel Report

Once you’ve created a PivotTable report (steps 1 to 6 given here), you can create a report with the following fields:

Report Filter:

1. Team Project. [Team Project Hierarchy] – Select the team project for the report

2. Test Suite.[Test Suite Hierarchy] – Drill down to select the test plan for the report.

Row Labels:

1. Test Configuration.[Configuration Name] – Test Configurations selected under the report filters.

2. Test Case.[System_Title] – The names of all test cases, grouped by test configuration

Column Labels:

1. Test Result.[Outcome] – the state of the test case (failed, passed, never run, error, blocked or aborted)

Values:

1. Test. [Point Count Tread] – indicates the count of all test points (test cases x configurations) satisfying the row/ column labels

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 29, 2011
    What is the exact query used to export the data to Excel? The TSF administrator on our team is unable to install SQL Server Analysis Services, so the only way to extract data at this point is through building a query in Visual Studio.

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2011
    I like using Gantt charts for project management.  What you have here is pretty similar. -Grahm I.E. 7.0+ www.oneclickcommissions.com/excel-report.html -or in Safari- www.oneclickcommissions.com/excel-reports.html

  • Anonymous
    June 15, 2011
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    July 29, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2012
    Interesting post, thanks! Here is another dashboard for testmanagement made in Excel: qastuff.wordpress.com/.../simple-excel-dashboard-to-monitor-your-test-progress

  • Anonymous
    August 29, 2012
    How to load report from a previous build that was assigned to the project?

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2012
    Great write up! Very useful. Now, if only had an easier way to get at the steps results. Cheers!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2012
    We are using excel reports to report tests run for a suite in a plan. But the numbers in Test manager do not match the numbers in Excel report ? Should there be a reason for this ? Regards, Himal.

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2013
    Hello, I am facing the same problem as the above comment. Could someone respond plz. "We are using excel reports to report tests run for a suite in a plan. But the numbers in Test manager do not match the numbers in Excel report "

  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2014
    Hi, I tried to generate the report as per the above method , but under the outcome its showing total number of test cases for each category (Blocked, failed, passed etc). Please help me to resolve this. Thanks