Creating and Editing Test Spaces

Creating

New testspaces can be created by selecting the New Testspace button on the Overview page or by selecting the Create New Test Space button on the All Projects page. Fill out the form appropriately and submit it. Here is a brief summary of the main fields:

Project

select the project that you want this test space to be grouped under. If you need to first create a new project for this test space, just select the New Project link and fill out the subform appropriately. If you have no projects defined for your company, you will be first taken to a project creation form when creating a new test space.

Name & Description

self-explanatory. Description is optional.

Max results to keep

setting this to a nonzero value will cap the number of result sets in the test space. If a new result set is added to a test space that already has the maximum number of result sets, a set will be automatically deleted when the new set is uploaded (oldest results sets are deleted first).

Additional Users

these select boxes allow you to grant access and activate setback notifications for each user.

Auto compare sequentially & Duration high limit

selecting this option causes each result set to be compared with the the previous one. Any differences in status (or timing, if the duration limit is specified) will be shown in the summary and reported to users (depending on notification options).

Notifications

these settings determines what kinds of events will trigger email notification to users. Setbacks indicates that any regressions relative to a baseline (sequential or fixed) will trigger a notification. Errors is used to notify users when errors have been reported anywhere in a give result set. Timing indicates that any timing deviations outside of the pre-defined allowable range will trigger user notification. As indicated above, only users with the Notify property enabled will be notified when one or more of these notification options are enabled.

Changing

Test spaces can be modified by following the Edit link to the left of the name on the All Projects page or to the right of the name on the Testspace page. The fields are identical to the form for creating a space with only the addition of a fixed baseline comparison section. If you have one or more fixed baselines defined in the test space, then you will have the option to specify that one or more of these baselines should be used to compare with every result set in the space. The currently defined baseline comparisons are show in the Fixed Baseline Compares table. New comparisons can be added using the appropriate link and existing comparisons can be removed using the Delete link.

Deleting

Test spaces can be deleted by selecting the delete link (trashcan) to the left of the name in the All Projects page or the right of the name in the Testspace page.

This screencast demonstrates these concepts:

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