Duplicate items

You can create duplicate of an item in the same workspace.

Overview

You can duplicate the following entities in the same workspace: features, user stories, quality stories, defects, requirements, manual tests, Gherkin tests, runs.

Note the following points regarding specific entities:

Entity Notes
Features

When duplicating a feature, you can choose whether or not to duplicate its child backlog items with it.

Requirements

When duplicating a requirement, the new requirement becomes a sibling of the original, and does not contain its descendant requirements.

Only requirement document items can be duplicated. You cannot duplicate a requirement folder.

Runs

For details on duplicating runs, see Duplicate runs.

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Duplicate an item

You can create duplicates of the following entities: features, user stories, quality stories, defects, requirements, manual tests, Gherkin tests, and runs.

Note: For details on duplicating runs, see Duplicate runs.

To duplicate an item, do one of the following:

  • Right-click an item and select the Duplicate button . The new item is displayed in the first row of the grid.

  • In an item's Details tab, click the More button and select Duplicate. The details of the new item are displayed.

The new entity is named Copy of <original entity name>. Its phase is New, and its creator is the user who duplicated the original entity.

The following table lists which elements are copied to the new item and which are not.

Status Details
Copied

The following elements are copied to the new item:

  • Common fields: this varies depending on the entity type. Note that user-defined fields (UDFs) are always copied.

  • Attachments

  • Tasks
Not copied

The following elements are not copied to the new item:

  • Comments

  • Dependencies

  • History

  • Release processes

  • Test coverage

  • Test runs and old versions

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Duplicate runs

You can duplicate the following run types:

  • Manual runs
  • Automated runs (AR) or Gherkin runs (GR) that are part of a suite run

Suite runs cannot be duplicated.

To duplicate a run:

  1. Open a list of Runs. Some of the common ways to view the Runs grid are:

    • Open a Test item and select the Runs tab.
    • Click the Runs tab inside a suite run.
    • Go to the Runs tab in the Quality module.

  2. In the Runs grid, select one or more runs of the same type. You can select up to 10 runs.

  3. Click the More button and select Duplicate. The new runs are added to the grid, assigned new IDs, and their status is set to Planned.

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