Test Suite & Test Management

Why does setting a test case's default execution duration matter beyond showing testers an estimate?

Automated test-case generation in SolMan fails until the system is set to Modifiable. Why is client-level changeability not enough, and what extra setting does eCATT need?

TBOM Trace isn't capturing anything during a tester's manual run, even though the case offers the TBOM Trace option. What user-level prerequisite is almost always the cause?

In a release status schema, you want a status that freezes a test plan so its structure can no longer be edited — but testers must still record execution results. Which option do you set, and which one would wrongly block result entry too?

A QA manager wants three different things: (1) are all process steps even covered by test cases/TBOMs, (2) how far along is execution across many test plans, (3) a management summary to circulate. Which of the three Test Suite Analytics reports gives each, and which is new in 7.2?

You bundle automated test cases into a package, define a run sequence for end-to-end data flow, and try to schedule automated execution — it won't run. Why, and what's the constraint?

A tester isn't receiving test email notifications even though they have the right SAP roles. What two things actually gate the emails, and what's the misconception about the test-process role?

You need to find process steps that have NO test case at all versus seeing how many cases each step already has. Which two analyses do these, and where does each live?

In test planning, why aren't 'test coverage' and 'test scope definition' the same step, and what decides what goes into a given test plan?

Right after a 7.1→7.2 upgrade, what historical test data is NOT usable as before — and which item silently survives but needs manual work so it's easy to lose track of?

SAP positions Test Suite as the default functional-testing solution from 7.2. What makes it more than 'just the test module renamed,' and what's the misconception about third-party tools?

A user has SAP_SMWORK_ITEST but still can't actually work in the Test Suite work center. What second navigation role is required, and how do navigation roles differ from the job-specific roles?

In 7.2, one test case in a package is assigned to multiple testers. A teammate marks it passed — does that close it for everyone? And how does package sequencing change what testers can run?

What is a Test classification actually used for when you generate test plans/packages — and what does it NOT do?

You copied SMIN to ZMIN for a custom defect transaction type but defect creation still won't offer it. Besides the copy, what configuration must exist for the type to be usable?

A customer with an existing HP ALM / IBM Rational integration on SolMan 7.2 asks whether they can keep relying on it. What's the catch in SAP's removal of third-party integration?

You want a test case to be reused automatically everywhere a process step is used. Do you attach it in the process step library or to the step inside a specific business process — and what's the consequence of the other choice?

After a 7.1→7.2 upgrade, which automated tests fail to carry over, and what's the asymmetry between manual and automated test handling?

For unit testing vs integration/regression testing, do you reach for a plain test package or a test sequence — and what property of the testing actually decides?

When you create a defect from the Test Execution screen, what's the default and what must NOT be assumed about routing it as a transportable correction?

Which test plan setting is irreversible after saving, and why does picking it wrong force you to rebuild the plan?

Among SolMan test status values, which can you customize or retire, and what is special about the system ones CATT_* and UNTESTED?