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Starting October 11, 2024 (Zephyr Enterprise 8.2), the Zephyr Enterprise documentation moved from its current location on Atlassian to a dedicated, standalone Zephyr Enterprise documentation page. Please see: https://support.smartbear.com/zephyr-enterprise/docs/en/zephyr-enterprise/zephyr-user-guide/test-execution/executing-automated-test-cases.html

In Zephyr, you can trigger automation for your existing test cases by using a Script Automation job you created in Vortex. To do that:

1. Download and run ZBot.

2. Create a Script Automation job.

3. Open your test case and select the Automated Script check box in the Automation section:

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The Automation section of test cases now doesn’t contain the fields it had in previous versions (Name, ID, Path). If you have data in those fields, during the upgrade, Zephyr will automatically create custom fields for that data and will migrate the content.

4. Go to Test Planning and create a new cycle for your test case.

5. Go to Test Execution, select your test case in the list and click E:

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titleClick to view a list of fields of the Execute Automation Script dialog

Field name

Description

Select Vortex Job (required)

The Script Automation job you have created in Vortex.

Script Triggering (required)

The path to the script that will trigger the test case.

Parameters

The predefined parameters to be used when the job is run. For example, you can specify which test cases to run, to which release, test cycle they belong, and so on. For a list of possible values, see Script Automation.

Command to be triggered

The command  you will get based on the parameters specified above. Cannot be edited.

On starting execution, change status to

Select this check box to specify the status your test case will have during the execution. The default value is WIP (work in progress).

7. Choose the status your test case will have during the execution and click Run. The following dialog will pop up:

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Now if you open the test case and expand the execution history, you will see that execution status has changed to WIP (work in progress). After the execution is completed, the test case status will be updated in accordance with the data received from the test automation tool:

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See Also

Zephyr Test Automation
Zephyr Vortex
Script Automation
Suite Automation
Folder Watcher
ZBot Overview