Generating Business Components from Manual Tests

Generate new business components out of manual tests to reuse the steps in the manual tests for business process testing.

In the menu, click Tests > Details View .
Select one or more manual tests in the Tests tree.
Right-click your selection and select Generate Business Component.
Specify how you want to handle the steps in the new business components.
- Click Copy the steps from the manual tests to copy the steps of each selected manual test into a corresponding new business component. Future changes to the steps of the manual test will not affect the steps of the corresponding business component and the other way round.
- Click Share and reuse the steps of the manual tests to copy the steps of each selected manual test into a corresponding new shared steps asset. Each shared steps asset is then used by both the manual test and the new business component. Future changes to a shared steps asset will affect both the manual test and the business component.
Choose the location where you want to place the new business components in the Libraries tree.
Click OK. Silk Central creates a new business component for each selected manual test.

Example

For example, suppose you have selected the manual tests Test 1 and Test 2, and you want to create two new business components out of these manual tests.

If you choose to generate business components out of these tests by copying the steps from the manual tests, Silk Central generates two new components with the names Test 1 and Test 2. The new component Test 1 has the same steps as the manual test Test 1, and the new component Test 2 has the same steps as the manual test Test 2.
If you choose to generate business components and to reuse the steps of the manual tests, Silk Central performs the following actions:
- It generates two new shared steps with the names Test 1 and Test 2.
- It replaces the steps in the manual test Test 1 with the new shared step Test 1.
- It replaces the steps in the manual test Test 2 with the new shared step Test 2.
- It generates two new business components with the names Test 1 and Test 2. The new business component Test 1 has the new shared step Test 1 and the new business component Test 2 has the new shared step Test 2.