Generate Test Plan from Query Results

This extension adds a menu item for queries to generate test plans from the test cases in the query result. The hierarchy of the query will be replicated in the Test Plan using Static Test Suites.

Here you can see the two ways of launching the extension.

And the resulting Test Plans that would get generated:

Naming Convention

The Test Plan names are autogenerated from the Area Path and Iteration Path such that a unique Test Plan will be created per team per iteration if the query results contain test cases from multiple iterations or multiple teams.

For example. If Team A has a query that returns test cases for \Iteration 1 and \Iteration 2, then 2 test plans would be generated: Team A Iteration 1 and Team A Iteration 2.

Currently, renaming Test Plans before they are created is not supported, but you can rename the Test Plans afterwards by opening the work item.

Justification

This extension fills a gap in ADO. There are 3 types of Test Suites: Static, Requirements based, and Query based. For the query based test suites, all test cases end up in the same suite, however it may be organizationally advantageous to keep the structure of a hierarchy query where the levels become their own test suites. It would be a lot of work to create these levels by hand. I come from a hardware validation background and am using ADO to track hardware test results as well as software test results.