A pre-requisite lets you designate one test case in a Test Set that must pass before the rest of the set runs.
What is a Pre-requisite Test?
Inside a Test Set, you can promote one of your test cases to be the pre-requisite. It runs first, on its own, before everything else. The remaining cases — the main tests — only start if the pre-requisite succeeds. This is useful for setup the other tests depend on, such as seeding data or resetting the environment.
One pre-requisite per Test Set (at most).
A test case can't be both the pre-requisite and a main test in the same set.
It's optional — a set with no pre-requisite runs all of its test cases together.
How to Add a Pre-requisite
Open the Test Set and go to the Test Cases tab. The list is split into two sections: Pre-requisite Test and Main Tests.
In the Pre-requisite Test section, click Add pre-requisite.
In the Manage Pre-requisite dialog, search for and select the test case that must pass first.
Click Apply changes.
How a Test Set Runs with a Pre-requisite
When you run the set, the pre-requisite and the main tests are queued together, but each main test waits for the pre-requisite before it actually executes:
If the pre-requisite succeeds, the main tests run as usual.
If it fails, is canceled, or is stopped, the main tests are Canceled.
If retries are enabled, the main tests start as soon as the pre-requisite succeeds on any attempt; if it uses up all its retries and still fails, they're canceled.
With a data file, each row is handled independently — a row's main tests start when that row's pre-requisite succeeds, and only that row's main tests are canceled if it fails.
Parallelism: once the pre-requisite passes, the main tests run under the Test Set's Max Parallelism setting, just as they would without a pre-requisite.
In your test runs, the pre-requisite appears in the run list alongside the set's main tests, marked with the same Pre-requisite badge.
