Review process for tests

In the case of developers, there’s a review process from their colleagues before the fix/implementation is deployed on a specific environment.

Similar to them, my team of QA are using Qase as a tool to organize our test cases repository, and that tool has a review feature where a test case is created, and the person marks it for review so at least 1-2 other QA people can offer feedback.

As a QA lead that already does reviews for my QA colleagues on the test cases and test plans they create, I would find it very useful to have a similar feature in Bugbug for automated tests.

Here’s an example of how the flow could work:

1. The author creates a new Bugbug test that is marked in progress (using a dedicated label maybe? or a board?)

2. Author finishes their work and mark it as “ready for review”

3. Optional: a project setting could allow the administrator to set the number of review approvals before the automated test is ready to be added to a testsuite

4. The reviewer opens the automated test in a dedicated view wherethey can see all the steps similary to today, except also have an intuitive interface where they can ask for changes and offer suggestions/feedback: suggest a new selector for a step, changing waiting conditions, using a different variable, create a new group inside the test, insert components, remove steps, remove groups etc (basically all the things that can be done at the moment during a test creation)

5. Once the review suggestions are tackled by the author, they can send the test back to “In review” or they mark the test as “Done” (I don’t have full knowledge of best practices for review process that developers do), and it appears as usually in the test repository ready to be added to a testsuite

I think the views of a test “in progress/review” would differ depending on who is the “Author” and who is the “Reviewer”. As a reference here is the documentation of Qase tool and their review process:

https://docs.qase.io/general/get-started-with-the-qase-platform/test-cases/test-case-review