Description

When you run a test case, which could be a single test or a test plan, an execution is created.
A test execution contains the executed test and its test steps in case of a single test execution.
In case of the execution of a test plan the execution contains all tests of the plan and their test steps.
For every test and test step contained the execution saves the corresponding test result and status.

Executions can be interrupted and resumed at a later time.
It's also possible to create executions for tests and test plans first and begin them at a later time.
This can be useful since an execution always works on the definition of the test or test plan at the time the execution was created, although the definition might be changed later.

Parameters used in test steps will be replaced by specified data during the execution. 

Operations

Executions for single tests can be created and started from any definition tree containing the corresponding test.
Test plan executions can be created and started from the plan tree of the corresponding test plan.

Executions can also be created and started from the execution view of a project.
The execution view also provides access to all other functions regarding test executions.
This includes editing executions and resuming previous executions as well as displaying and exporting execution statistics.