Test Plan Administration

The following protocol is to be followed when defining a Test Plan in order to avoid the deletion

There is no way to manage the delete permissions separated from the edit and creation, but there is a work around related to the iteration/Area of the test plan

Step 1- Create a separated area for suggested Test Plans, in this area the plan is inactive (as is not approved yet) and can be created by each one of QA team.

The un-active state avoid the deletion of the Test Plan

In this area QA members only can work and the plan is related to the area only.

Step 2- Move the Test Plan to state active under Approved area

Once the Test Is created the QA manager will approve and move to active and to the approved area

In this area the QA members are unable to delete the Test Plan

Pre-requisites:

Define the areas, associate the permissions

Let's do it:

From VS2010, under Team>>Settings>>Areas…

In Areas Dialog define the Areas ( And/ Or you can choose the Iteration)

Define for the QA Team, the proposed and approved security issues

Step 1-

Create a new plan (as QA member)

Create a Test Plan (Area will be default, so you need to be able to add to Area)

When you try to changed to approved and save it...

You get the appropriated message

Then the team leader moved it to approved. When the QA member try to delete we see is unable to do it

Limitations:

This is a workaround and not the expected behaviour

, but it works, if the area issue is not enough you can play with the iteration issue, the state (inactive) is not strong enough and a Test Plan can be deleted even in this state