Context-Sensitive Reports

The areas Requirements,Tests, and Executions offer dynamically-generated lists of reports that are specific to each unit. Context-sensitive report lists are helpful because they offer report types that relate directly to your current activities.

Requirements
Context-sensitive report lists in the Requirements tree offer all reports that take a requirement ID as an input parameter.
Tests
Context-sensitive report lists in the Tests tree offers all reports that take a test ID as an input parameter.
Executions
Context-sensitive report lists in the Execution Plans tree offer all reports that take an execution-plan ID as an input parameter. On the execution-plan Runs tab, context-sensitive report lists offer all reports that have the following configuration:
  • Result category = Execution Plan
  • Selection criteria = Execution Plan Run
  • Property = ID

When you select a report from a context-sensitive report list, you are taken directly to that report's default tab in the Reports area. This default destination-tab behavior can be configured using each report's Edit Report dialog box.

There are two types of reports that appear in the context-sensitive report lists: reports that you have already accessed and reports that you have not yet accessed. Reports that you have accessed previously appear above a line separator in the menu. These reports are listed chronologically with the most recently viewed report at the top of the list. Other default reports that are available, but have not yet been accessed, appear beneath the line separator.

In addition to the default-configured context-sensitive reports, you can configure new and existing reports to be included in the context-sensitive report list of each area. Context sensitivity is added to reports on a per-user, per-report basis only.