Every application we use has those little things, that make the user’s work so much easier. It can be a keyboard shortcut, a hidden option, or a quick way to make the most out of a feature.

With the years we’ve created a long list of such helpful tips. Long enough to have it here for your convenience.

Let us know if you find it helpful or if you have a few tips of your own for us to add.

Useful Tips:

Test Organization

  1. Soft-Link for Better Organization: Utilize Soft-Link to structure and organize your testing more effectively.
  2. Shared steps, and shared-precondition: Save time and manage test writing more efficiently with shared steps and shared preconditions.
  3. Quick Test Access: In the Requirements module, under Tests in this requirement, select a test to get a list of actions and reports. Direct access. No need to move to other screens in order to work with and on a test.
  4. Drag & Drop Suites: Re-organize your suites by dragging and dropping them into other suites (Desktop only).

Test Planning

  1. Automatic Test Assignment: When a test is run in the lab, it is automatically re-assigned to the tester who runs it, regardless of previous assignments. This is useful when assignments are uncertain during lab creation.
  2. Direct Test Running: Team members can run a test directly from the Tests view by clicking on the spiral Run icon Run icon or by right-clicking and selecting the “assign” option (Right-click option is a Desktop client option).
  3. Multi-Configuration Runs: When assigning tests in the lab, select more than one Run-Configuration to create multiple runs with a single click.
  4. Lab Filters for Targeted Assignment: Use the Lab filters to assign only the filtered tests or suites. Only the filtered results will be assigned.
  5. Labs for Cycle Management: Labs are ideal for planning and managing test cycles and can also represent new versions of your application.

Bug Trackers and Defect Reporting

  1. Project-Specific Tracker Setup: Connect each Testuff project to a corresponding tracker project.
  2. When reporting a defect, you can Drag & Drop files from a folder to the entry fields of the bug reporter file attachment section.
  3. Use Template Tags: Use Template Tags for defect custom field value reporting.
  4. Defect Status Synchronization: The Defect Template lets you customize the appearance and content of your bug reports.
  5. Defect Status Synchronization: Use the same Defect Status values as in your tracker for better synchronization with developers.
  6. Closing Defects via Tracker: Show your colleagues how to close defects in Testuff using the tracker’s defect link. Synchronize defect status directly from Testuff.

Account Organization and Control

  1. Preferred Language: Select your preferred language in the User Settings. Testuff is available in English, French, Spanish, German, and Russian. Go to User Settings and from User Details section pick your preferred language.
  2. Team Management: Use the Team feature in a project’s settings to better manage your testers and projects.
  3. Archiving for Organization: Clean up your workspace by archiving projects, branches and labs and get a better organized view of your current working space. Restoring from archive is easy.
  4. Customization: Customize your account, go to Settings and select Customization.

Speeding Up Work

  1. Copy & paste does miracles in Testuff. Use it for a test or a suite, or even a group of them. It works between branches and projects as well.
  2. Editing During Test Runs: A test can be edited while running it. Use the Edit Test menu option.
  3. Batch Status Changes: To change the status of more than one test at the same time, check mark a group of tests, then click on the More Actions menu option Mark test as to select from list of available statuses.
  4. Export and Import: Export tests to Excel for quick edits and re-import them using the update import option.
  5. Keyboard Shortcuts work in the Test Editor. Use them to speed up your work.
  6. Work on several tests at once. Check mark more than one test/run and click on the More Actions to open the available options.

Miscellaneous

  1. Test Information: Watch for the  icon in Testuff. Click on it to get more information about a test.
  2. Use the Forgot your password? link on the login screen, to create a new personal password if yours is lost or forgotten.
  3. Follow us on X (Twitter) and Facebook for interesting content and updates.
  4. To change your monthly subscriptions (licenses) number go to your Settings window in Testuff and click on the Change link next to the number of licenses.
  5. Share your reports with others. Get the shareable link of any of the reports.
  6. Feature Requests: Need a new feature? Send us your suggestions; we listen to our customers.
  7. Consider using our API to create your own reports. Your managers will love it….
  8. Payment Updates: Be sure to update your payments account (at BlueSnap) with any credit card changes to avoid charge failures.
  9. Make new orders, for monthly licenses, from Testuff Settings window. For yearly new orders, go to your BlueSnap account and process them there.