Show Test execution in active sprint in swimlane corresponding to Test plan

[Florian Foohs]

The sprint board of my team is set up with swimlanes based on stories.

The test plan of the active sprint shows up as swim lane, just as we would like -> OK

Any sub tasks of the test plan are shown in the swim lane of the test plan -> OK

But any test execution of the test plan is not shown in the swim lane of the test plan, but is listed under "Other issues" -> NOK

How can the test executions that belong to the test plan be shown in the swim lane of the test plan?

[Dick · Accepted solution]

Hi @Florian Foohs , Welcome to the Atlassian Community

You filter in all Jira issues that go on your board using the board filter. 

From this bunch of Jira Issues, you filter a subset for each swimlane using jql

Any issues that are left, end up in the "Other issues" lane.

So once you filter in the test executions in their own lane, the "other issues' lane will be empty, and as a bonus, will not be displayed any more.

Kind regards,

Dick

[Florian Foohs]

How can I adapt the swimlane filter then?

The only option I see for swimlanes in Board configuration is "Base Swimlanes on" : "Stories"

This somehow works to set up Test Planes as swim lanes, but it only groups sub tasks under the test plan, the test executions do not show up in the swim lane of the test plan.

[Dick]

Hi Florian,

Swimlane filters are defined in the board configuration window, tab swimlanes. 

Base swimlanes on:  allows selection (it's a pulldown menu). 

You can choose Queries, then you get the interface where you can make swimlanes with issues you gather using JQL.

Kind regards,

Dick

[Dick]

In your case, the selection was Stories. That means that all issues that are not stories or their subtasks are gathered in the Everything Else lane. 

Hope this gives you some insight as to how the interface works.

Dick

[Florian Foohs]

So it is not possible to customize the Story selection further. I really liked that every Testplan got it's own swim lane, just wanted to show all dependent tasks in that lane.

When I now configure it via queries I seem to run into the problem that I would need to create a swimlane for each test plan filtering via the ID.

That seems like extra work every sprint and therefore not an interesting approach.

When I make one swim lane containing every test plan and test execution it gets close to what I initally wanted, because we do not have multiple test plans every sprint.

But I need to figure out how to select sub tasks that are child of a test plan that fits the filter, because now either all sub tasks (even those not related to the testing issues) are in the testing swim lane or none.

[Dick]

If you ie have used issuetype epic for the testplan, you can do:

"Epic Link" = EPIC-123 OR parent in childIssuesOf("EPIC-123")

[Florian Foohs]

OK, got the filter working, only disappointment is that I could not have it in the way that every test plan automatically gets is own swim lane like when selecting "User Stories"

[Dick]

I'm sorry to hear that the outcome isn't exactly what you desired.

 
Going 180: can you perhaps avoid the initial problem by having the stuff that ends up in the "everyting else" swimminglane also inside a story, and perhaps give that a colour to distinguish it from the regular stories?

Kind regards,

Dick