Global Meta Data Administration

Global Meta Data is Meta Data saved by you as a named Set within a library and is not associated with a TS or SUT. You may define Global Meta Data from View > Global Meta Data and the Global Meta Data window displays.

The Meta Data is a table of Name-Value pairs that you can define. From the Global Meta Data window, you may create, save, delete many different sets of Global Meta Data. You may also cut, copy, paste Meta Data from TS/SUT Meta Data.

You can now apply an entire Meta Data profile to a Test Case to override it’s parameters.

Metadata allows a user to create a group of parameters that are associated with Test case variables. This will give flexibility to the user to quickly change the test bed environment without having to change the entries (e.g IP address /vlan/port/ac-address..etc), the metadata group in this case will become test case specific (e.g sgw nodal). You can also include port Test server and Port reservation in the metadata. See About the Session Builder Tab - Apply the Meta Data.

Library

Select the library where you wish to create/edit Global Meta Data. Click New and enter the required name.

Added an option to add any entry in the Test Case to metadata folder " or group" - this allows the user to name the group something that they can reference such as a Test Case (for example sgw nodal 1).

Name, Value Columns

You may edit each cell under the Name and Value column and enter any ASCII character.

New Row (Name-Value pair)

Click to insert a row.
Enter names and values and press Tab to insert a new row.
Enter information/type into the last row and a new row is automatically inserted.

NOTE: A row with labels <Enter Name> and <Enter Value> is always visible.

Select a row to delete (), cut (), copy (), paste (), move the value pair up or down ().

NOTE: Delete, Cut, Copy, Paste, Up and Down is available when you select a row. Cut and Copy stores the information on the clipboard and Paste inserts inform from the clipboard to the Meta Data row.

Click to import Meta Data from a CSV file on you local drive and the data will be appended to the current Meta Data Set.

This option allows you to create large amounts of Meta Data using Excel or text editor and import data.

NOTES:

Make sure that the CSV you create includes one line for each name, value pair (2 columns). For example, if your Meta Data CSV file includes more than 2 columns, all values past the 2nd column will be ignored. That is, column 1 Name1, column 2 Value2, column 3 Ignored, column 4 Ignored.
After you import Meta Data, you may copy/paste from the Global Meta Data to SUT Meta Data, or TS Meta Data sets.

After defining a Global Meta Data Set in a library, you may access the Global Meta Data from within a Test Case editor. Click F5 or Meta Data in a parameter to display the Meta Data Selector window, and click Global in the left pane to associate the define Global Meta Data Set with the test session.

The first item in the list (left pane) is always the Global Meta Data Set. You can change the Global Meta Data Set by clicking Set Global.

NOTE: The Global Meta Data association is to the test session, not the test case.