How to manage test cases using Confluence?

Question

We would like to use Confluence for writing and managing our test cases. Confluence Testplan plugin seems close to what I'm looking for, but it's a bit too simple and limited.

How are you using Confluence to manage your test cases?

Answer 1

We both do and don't use Confluence for managing our test cases.

We Don't
In my project we use, and love, Confluence. But only for knowledge documentation and spreading. I'm sorry but I can't see how Confluence would be a good idea of writing and managing our test cases.

We Do
We use excel/calc spreadsheets to write an manage manual test cases. We write them on a very high lever. E.g. "Log in and upload a jpeg image." We expect all tester to have high domain knowledge and know how to log in and upload images.
Then we upload the spreadsheets to Confluence a special page. And every time the tests are run, before every release/sprint demo, we check them out. We enter in the results (sometimes add new tests) and check the spreadsheet back in again with comments.
It works fine, is fast, flexible, low overhead and it's ready to send to management or the customer anytime.

IMHO, honestly spreadsheets beats most test managing tools.

Answer 2

I used JIRA instead

~Matt

Answer 3

If the question is about functional testing or BDD, did you check GreenPepper? See the documentation.

Answer 4

We're not using Confluence for test cases right now, but we are for use cases. I wrote up some examples about how we manage use cases here: http://bit.ly/bEqLmW. The general idea could probably be applied to test cases also.