3.3 Checkpoints
Checkpoints correspond to testing process tasks which must be
performed before proceeding with other tasks. There are standard
checkpoints defined initially during WAassistant tracker setup, other
checkpoints can be added later if needed. There are two important
fields in the checkpoint editing form:
- Status
- Each checkpoint status defines progress of the testing process.
Status change of a checkpoint may imply automatic change of other
checkpoint statuses and change of presentation of some pages,
especially reports.
- Report
- Content of this field is used when making reports (see [Report]
menu item).
Each checkpoint can have one of the following statuses:
- inactive
- This is the initial state of most checkpoints. It means the
checkpoint is not currently active and will be handled in future. You
cannot activate inactive checkpoints which depend on other checkpoints
which are inactive or open.
- open
- Once checkpoint doesn't depend on any inactive or open
checkpoints, it may become open. Open checkpoints are those
which should be currently worked on. When the task defined by the
checkpoint is finished, the checkpoint status must be changed to
done.
- done
- Status of successfully finished checkpoints.
- n/a
- This is effectively the same status as done. Its purpose is to
indicate that the checkpoint task was skipped and won't be performed
at all for some reason.
Information about each checkpoint status change (except for changes
made by the admin user) is sent by e-mail to all Supervisors
and subscribers of the item (for more information about subscribers
see Sending Messages).