Test Cases (legacy documentation)

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Last updated: Apr 26, 2023 by Mike Harrison
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Create a Test Case

The Test Case tab lists existing messages, click Create to create a new one:

If you have never seen raw email content before, its just text and consists of a series of Headers KEY: VALUE, a double newline, then body content.  Real emails are usually encoded, but for testing can be just text.

The edit dialog looks like this:

The minimum number of values that need to be changed are:

  • The From: header should be set to an email address of format, user@domain.com which is NOT registered in JIRACloud

  • The To: header should be set to the same email address as your mailbox / a valid catchemail address as defined in the Profile.

The Subject and body content (separated from the headers by TWO newlines) can also be changed, here is a screenshot of that:

NOTE that the Test Case is associated with a Profile, this will be used as the context for the Test Case to be run against.  Once saved:

Use the green  icon to run the Test Case, the result is:

In this case, most are informational, there is no Profile Default Reporter user (this means that the reporter will be the 'addon user', you'll see this added under username addon_com.javahollic.jira.jemh-ui.  the Cc: user could not be added as a watcher as it was not found.  Here is the created issue, showing the Sender Email Address custom field was populated, as well as the Email User Participants field from cc: