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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).