Milestones: Structuring Your Testing Journey

Milestones in TestVia enable efficient planning and scheduling by offering a clear, date-ordered timeline dashboard. This allows teams to grasp testing objectives and monitor upcoming, overdue, and completed milestones effortlessly.

Each milestone signifies a key phase in a testing project, setting objectives, timelines, and dependencies to align testing efforts with project goals. Linked directly to test runs and sub-milestones, they act as structured checkpoints.

Milestone Timeline Dashboard

The Milestone Timeline Dashboard serves as the central hub for managing and monitoring all active milestones within a project, offering a clear and comprehensive timeline view sorted by date.

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Milestone Dashboard Sections

The dashboard consists of two key sections:

• Active Milestones

• Completed Milestones

Active Milestones

Active milestones represent ongoing testing phases and allow teams to track test runs and execution results linked to each milestone.

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Key Features:

• Milestone Progress Tracking
  Monitor the overall progress of active milestones, including linked test runs and their statuses.

• Timeline Management
  Set and adjust start and end dates for milestones. The dashboard visually indicates the remaining duration, overdue status, or unscheduled state of a milestone.

• Start, Stop, and Complete Milestones
  Click Start to initiate a milestone, Stop to pause it, or Complete to finalize it, ensuring structured execution and flexibility in milestone management.

Completed Milestones

The Completed Milestones section serves as a historical record of finalized testing phases, offering a chronological overview of past milestones.

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Milestone Status View

Clicking on a specific milestone in the dashboard opens its status view, offering an in-depth look at its progress, outcomes, and execution history. This dedicated page provides a centralized reference for tracking milestone completion and impact.

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Key Features:

• Milestone Information
  Displays essential details such as start and end dates, teams, milestone hierarchy, description, and creation date, providing context for the milestone’s scope and progression.

• Overall Run Status
  A visual breakdown of milestone progress, categorized by test execution statuses (e.g., Passed, Failed, In Progress, Blocked, Skipped), allowing for quick assessment of testing success.

• Overall Run Activity
  View results from all linked test execution results within the past 2 weeks to gain immediate visibility into recent testing activities.

• Sub Milestones
  Shows a structured view of sub milestones within a parent milestone, helping teams manage complex testing phases with a clear hierarchy.

• Linked Test Runs
  A complete list of test runs associated with the milestone for easy access to detailed execution data and trend analysis.

• Linked Issues
  Displays issues associated with the milestone, ensuring seamless traceability between testing progress and related defects or tasks.

The Milestone Status View empowers teams to assess testing phases, analyze trends, and ensure that key project objectives are met with structured execution.

Next steps

• Learn to create milestone.

• How to add test runs to a milestone?