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TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

By : Thomas Hamilton
August 26, 2023

What is TestLink?
Test-link is most widely used web based open source test management tool. It synchronizes both requirements
specification and test specification together. User can create test project and document test cases using this tool. With
Test-Link you can create an account for multiple users and assign different user roles. Admin user can manage test cases
assignment task.

It supports both automated and manual execution of Test cases. The testers can generate Test Plan and Test Report in a
fraction of the time with this tool. It supports test reports in various formats like Excel, MS word, and HTML formats. Apart
from these, it also supports integration with many popular Defect tracking system like JIRA, MANTIS, BUGZILLA, TRAC, etc.
Since it is a web based tool, multiple users can access its functionality at the same time with their credentials and assigned
roles.

In this tutorial we will learn

What is TestLink?
Advantages of TestLink
Login to TestLink
Creating a Test Project
Creating a Test Plan
Build Creation
Creating Testsuite
Creating a Testcase
Assigning test case to test plan
Creating Users and Assigning Roles in TestLink
Writing Requirements:
Executing a test case
Generating Test Reports
Export Test case/ Test Suite
Importing Test case/ Test suite

Advantages of TestLink
It supports multiple projects
Easy export and import of test cases
Easy to integrate with many defect management tools
Automated test cases execution through XML-RPC
Easy filtration of test cases with version, keywords, test case ID and version
Easy to assign test cases to multiple users
Easy to generate test plan and test reports in various formats
Provide credentials to multiple users and assign roles to them

Login to TestLink
Step 1 : Open the Testlink home-page and enter the login details

1. Enter the userID – admin

2. Enter the password
3. Click on the login tab
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Creating a Test Project

Step 1: In the main window click on Test Project Management, it will open another window

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: Click on the tab “create” to create a new project.

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 3: Enter all the required fields in the window like a category for a test project, name of the project, prefix,
description, etc. After filling all necessary details, click on tab “Create” at the end of the window.
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This will create your project “Guru99” successfully.

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Creating a Test Plan

Test plan holds the complete information like the scope of Software testing, milestone, test suites and test cases. Once you
have created a Test Project, next step is to create Test plan.

Step 1: From the home-page, click on Test Plan Management from home-page

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: It will open another page, at the bottom of the page click on a tab “Create”

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 3: Fill out all the necessary information like name, description, create from existing test plan, etc. in the open
window, and click on “create tab”
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Step 4: Guru 99 Test Plan is created successfully

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Build Creation
A build is a specific release of a software

Step 1: Click on Builds/Releases under Test Plan from the home page

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: In the next window, fill all necessary details for a software release and click on create to save your release

1. Enter the title name

2. Enter the description about the software release
3. Mark the check-box for status- Active
4. Mark the check-box for status- Open
5. Choose the date of release
6. Click on create a button

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Once you have a release the software it will appear like this
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Creating Testsuite
Test suite is a collection of test cases which may be testing or validating the same component. Following steps will explain
how to create test suite for your project.

Step 1: Click on test specification option from the home page.

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: On the right-hand side of the panel, click on the setting icon . It will display a series of test operation.

Step 3: Click on the “create” tab for the test suite

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 4: Fill-up all the details for test-suite and click on save it tab.

1. Enter the test suite name

2. Enter the details about your test suite
3. Click on save button to save the details of test-suite

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

You can see the test suite for Guru 99 is created

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Your test suite appears on the left side of the panel under folder structure tree

Creating a Testcase
Testcase holds a sequence of test steps to test a specific scenario with an expected result. Below steps will explain how to
create a test-case along with test steps.

Step 1: Click on the test suite folder on the left side of the panel under a folder tree structure

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: Click on the setting icon in the right side panel. List of test case operations will be displayed on the right side
panel

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 3: New window will open, to create test cases click on create a button in test-case operations

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 4: Enter the details in the test case specification page

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 5: After entering the details, click on “create” button to save the details. The test-case for Guru99 is created
successfully
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Step 6: Click on test-case from the folder, as shown above, it will open a window. Click on “create steps” button in a test
case. It will open a test case step editor

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 7) It will open another window on the same page, in that window you have to enter the following details

1. Enter the step-action for your test case

2. Enter the details about the step action
3. Click save it and add another step action OR click save and exit tab if there is no more test step to add

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 8) Once you save and exit the test step, it will appear like this
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Assigning test case to test plan

For test case to get executed, it should be assigned to test plan. Here we will see how we can assign a test-case to test
plan.

Step 1) Click on the setting icon on the test panel. It will show the list of operations.

Step 2) Click on “Add to Test Plans”

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 3) New window will open, search your project “Guru99”

1. Mark the checkbox against your test plan

2. Click on add button

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

This will add your test case to your Test Plan.

Creating Users and Assigning Roles in TestLink

Testlink provides User management and authorization features.

Below is list of default roles in Testlink and their rights –

Role Test Cases Test Metrics

Guest View View

Tester Execute View

Senior Tester Edit & Execute View

Leader & Admin Edit & Execute Edit & Execute

Step 1: From the Testlinks home-page, click on users/roles icon from the navigation bar

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: Click Create

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 3: Fill out all the users details and click the “Save” button

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Here in the list, we can see the users have been created

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 4: Allotting test project role to the user,

1. Click on “Assign Test Project Roles” tab

2. Choose the project name
3. Select the user role from the drop down

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Writing Requirements:
Step 1: From the navigation bar select the “Requirements Link”, it opens the Requirement page.

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: From the requirement page, on the right side of the panel click on “create” button

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 3: A new window will open, enter all the details like

1. Document ID
2. Title name
3. Requirement Description
4. And Click “Save” button

For the type, you can choose the option from the drop-down- here we chose “User Requirement Specification”

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 4: It should create Requirement specification and displayed on the left side panel under the project “Guru99”.

Step 5: Select the setting button from requirements specification home-page. It will open another window.

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 6Click “Create” tab under Requirement Operations.

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Step 7: Fill out all the specified details and click the “Save” button

1. Enter the document ID

2. Enter the title name
3. Enter the description
4. Enter the status-whether it’s in draft, rework, review, not testable, etc. Here we chose valid
5. Enter the type – user interface, non-functional, informational, feature, etc. Here we chose use case
6. Enter the number of test cases needed
7. Enter “Save” button at the end

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Note: To add more requirements you can mark the check-box and click save button

On the left side of the panel, we can see that the requirement is added.

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Assigning requirement to test-cases

In Testlink, Requirement can be connected to test cases. It is a very crucial feature in order to track test coverage based
on requirements. In test reports, you can verify which requirements are not covered and act on them to apend in test
suites for maximum test coverage

Step 1: From the test specification section open any single test case and click on requirement icon
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Step 2: To assign requirements specification to test case you have to follow the following steps

1. Scroll the drop down box to select the requirements specification

2. Mark the requirement checkbox
3. Click on “assign” tab

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

After clicking on “assign” tab, a window will appear stating “Assigned Requirement.”

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Executing a test case

In TestLink, we can run a test case and change execution status of a test case. Status of a test-case can be set to
“blocked” “Passed”, or “failed”. Initially, it will be in “not run” status but once you have updated it, it cannot be altered
to “not run” status again.

Step 1: From the navigation bar click on the “Test Execution” link. It will direct you to the Test Execution Panel.
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Step 2: Pick the Test case you want to run from the left side panel

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 3: Once you have selected the test cases, it will open a window.

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 4: Follow the following steps

1. Enter the notes related to test case executed

2. Select its status

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 5: On the same page, you have to fill similar detail about the execution of test-case. Fill the details, select the status
and then click on “save execution”.
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Generating Test Reports

Test link supports various test report formats like

HTML
MS Word
MS Excel
OpenOffice Writer
OpenOffice Calc

Step 1: From the navigation bar, click on Test Reports option

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: From the left side panel, select “Test Report” link

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 3: To generate a report follow the following steps

1. Mark and unmark the option you want to highlight in your test report
2. click on your project folder
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The test report will look like this

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Export Test case/ Test Suite

Testlink provides the features to export test projects/test suites in your Testlink and then you can import them into another
Testlink project on different server or system. In order to do that you have to follow the following step

Step 1: Choose the test case you want to export in the Test specification page

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: Now on the right-hand side of the panel click on the setting icon, it will display all the operations that can be
performed on the test case.

Step 3: Click the “export” button

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 4: It will open another window, mark the option as per requirement and click on the export tab

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Following XML is generated

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Importing Test case/ Test suite

Step 1: Select the Test suite folder inside which you want to import the test case

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 2: Click on the setting icon on the right-hand-side of the panel, it will display all the operations that can be
 executed on the test suite/test case

Step 3: Click on the import button in the test case operations list as

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 4: Browse and attach the XML test case file that you have exported from test link and click on upload button.

1. Use the browse option to attach the XML test case file that you have exported from testlink
2. Click on upload file

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

When you upload a file, it will open window stating import test cases

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Step 5: Test case will be uploaded and displayed on the right-hand side of the panel

TestLink Tutorial: A Complete Guide

Summary:
In this tutorial, we have covered various aspects of TestLink- like how you can use Testlink-as a test management. It
explains you step by step how to manage test plan for your project, how to create a user and assign them their roles
accordingly or even how to import or export test cases to your project. Other useful features like generating reports,
defining requirement, etc. are also demonstrated well in this tutorial.

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