Searching across all test cases and their session comment

[olw-medcom]

Hey there,

Now that we have the ability to override the test session comment and the outcome I was wondering if we could start using this to search across our test cases?
Let's say that sometime in the past we failed a test sessions because they need to update their display of patient records to also display the patient shoe size...
Then we later find out that actually that was a mistake on our part, they don't need to display their patient shoe size.. 😆 Then it would be a very welcome feature to quickly be able to find the specific test case where we wrote it to them.

[costas80]

Sounds reasonable @olw-medcom. Basically the session dashboard would include an extra search criterion on comment texts. This would need to be treated more a keyword search considering that comments are rich-text making them difficult to match verbatim.

In addition we could also foresee an overall search flag regardless of the comment text, to list the tests with any comments. I think this especially would useful as it would quickly highlight the tests where "interventions" were made/needed.

I'll add this to the TODO list :)

[olw-medcom]

Sounds very nice, thank you @costas80!

[costas80]

Hi @olw-medcom. The discussed update (search sessions by comments) is ready to pull from the latest nightly build.

The test session filters now include the new Comments filter. You will notice that this filter combines a checkbox and a text field. By checking the checkbox, you search for sessions with any comment. In addition to this - and once the checkbox is enabled - you can also provide text that will be matched against the sessions' user or admin comments. Note that the text provided is normalised so it will match text regardless of any formatting present in the comments' content.

Can you confirm that this update covers you?

[olw-medcom]

Yes this indeed covers us! I unfortunately will not be able to test it because I'm going on vacation currently and I can't restart the ITB to get the update today as we have some pending admin interactions that would break if I shut it down.