Products

The core object in MozTrap is the Product. A Product itself is little more than a name and optional description, but almost every other object in the MozTrap data model relates to a Product either directly or indirectly.

Products have a list of versions; every test run and test case version applies to a particular version of the product.

Product Edit Fields

  • Name - The name of the Product. (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc)
  • Description - (optional) A brief description of the product.
  • Version - Every Product must have at least one Product Version. Many Products will end up with several Product Versions. (1.0, 2.0, 2.5, etc). If this is a web project and you don’t want several versions, feel free to call this whatever you like (Production, Current, etc.).
  • Environments - This is a pre-existing collection of environments called an Environment Profile. You can specify this at creation time, or later. Note that the set of environments can be different for different Product Versions because the needs of your product may change over time. When you want to update the list of supported environments, you do this on the Product Version rather than the Product itself.

Product Versions

When a new Product Version is created, all test cases for that Product will get a new version to match the new Product Version.

For more information on how Test Cases and Product Versions relate while running tests against different builds of a Product, see the Test Runs section.

Product versions are automatically ordered according to their version number/name. The version is split into dotted segments, and the segments are ordered lexicographically (with implicit left-side zero-padding of numerals to avoid e.g. “2” ordering after “11”). So, for instance, version 1.1 is greater than version 1.0.3, version 2.0b1 is greater than 2.0a3, and 3.11.1 is greater than 3.2.0.

There are some special cases to better support common version-numbering schemes. Strings alphabetically prior to “final” are considered pre-release versions (thus 2.1a, 2.1alpha, and 2.1b are all prior to 2.1, whereas 2.1g is considered a post-release patchlevel). The strings “rc”, “pre”, and “preview” are considered equivalent to “c” (thus also pre-release), and the string “dev” orders before “alpha” and “beta” (so 2.1dev is prior to 2.1a).

Product versions can also optionally have a code name that does not impact their ordering.

Fill Case Versions

Test cases have a version for each Product Version. If you have multiple product versions, it is possible to have a version of a case for one product version and not for another. For example, given:

  • Product Foo
    • Version 1.0
    • Version 2.0
  • Case A
    • Case A, Version 1.0

You can see here that you have a version of the Case A for Product Foo Version 1.0, but not for Version 2.0. With a large project, you may find yourself with hundreds of cases where you created them for Version 1.0 and not for 2.0.

If you want to create those versions, you have 2 options:

  1. If you only have a few, you can edit the case in question, and in the upper right of the dialog, click the version field and select +2.0 (add this version)
  2. Edit the product version and specify the other version in the Fill Cases From field.

Product Version Create Fields

  • Product - The Product that this is a version of.
  • Copy Environments and Cases From - (optional) Environments apply to each product version. Each version can have a unique set of environments. But commonly, they are very close, and the set of environments evolves over time. This field allows you to choose which existing product version to copy the environments from. You can then add or remove from the list of environments for this version.

Fields in both Create and Edit

  • Version - The name of the new version. See product versions for more info on how order of versions works.
  • Codename - (optional) This can be any text and is only used as a reference in the summary list of versions when there is another name for a version. For instance, for Mac OS 10.7, the Codename is Lion.

Product Version Edit Fields

  • Fill Cases From - (optional) The product version to copy cases from if they don’t exist for this product version yet. See Fill Case Versions.