How to modify Create test case from External data option in test manager programmatically?

I am trying to generate a script to automate the testing in test manager. I want the handle to 'Create Test case from External Data' option that is visible on openeing a test file in MATLAB R2019a.

Answer 1

[Altaïr]

Hey @bhavyashree Shetty,

The "Create test case from External file" checkbox mainly functions to show or hide the "File" edit field, shown below.

To programmatically import test case criteria from a MAT-file or Excel file for Baseline or Equivalence tests, the captureBaselineCriteria and captureEquivalenceCriteria methods of the sltest.testmanager.TestCase object are useful. Below are the commands to access their documentation:

For captureBaselineCriteria:

web(fullfile(docroot, 'sltest/ref/sltest.testmanager.testcase.capturebaselinecriteria.html'))

Example usage:

% Create the test file, test suite, and test case structure
tf = sltest.testmanager.TestFile('API Test File');
ts = createTestSuite(tf,'API Test Suite');
tc = createTestCase(ts,'baseline','Baseline API Test Case');

% Capture the baseline criteria
baseline = captureBaselineCriteria(tc,'baseline_API.mat',true);

For captureEquivalenceCriteria:

web(fullfile(docroot, 'sltest/ref/sltest.testmanager.testcase.captureequivalencecriteria.html'))

Example usage:

% Create the test file, test suite, and test case structure
tf = sltest.testmanager.TestFile('API Test File');
ts = createTestSuite(tf,'API Test Suite');
tc = createTestCase(ts,'equivalence','Equivalence Test Case');

% Capture equivalence criteria
eq = captureEquivalenceCriteria(tc);

For additional information on formatting test case data in Excel and creating a MAT-file for input data, refer to:

web(fullfile(docroot, 'sltest/ug/create-data-files-to-use-as-test-inputs.html'))