3.6.12. Tracking changes in a Project
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### 3.6.12. Tracking changes in a Project

In order to see when changes were made to a Test Case, Test Suite or Test Job in a Project, you can activate the change tracking option in the Project properties.

When this option is activated, each Test Case, Test Suite and Test Job shows information on the timestamp of a change, and the type of change (created or modified). You can optionally enter a property which should be displayed alongside the change type to track e.g. the user that made the change. The changes that lead to change information being shown are:

- The creation of a node.

- Any time an editor is saved (renaming within an editor, adding Test Cases to an editor, removing Test Cases from an editor, adding data or component names, using the refactor actions from within an editor.

Project-wide refactor actions, such as those started from the search result view, and any renaming in browsers, are not shown in the change information.

#### 3.6.12.1. Activating change tracking

1. Open the Project properties:

   Test-->Properties

2. Select General from the tree on the left-hand side.

3. Activate Track changes to activate change tracking for this Project.

4. Choose whether you want to track a certain number of changes per node, or whether you want to keep changes for a specific time span. Enter the amount of changes or days.

   | The display for each node is updated on saving. If there are too many changes, or some changes are outside of the specified time span, they will be removed on saving.

5. You can (optionally) enter a system or environment property that is displayed in the Properties View as additional information about the change (e.g. the user that made the change).

When change tracking is activated, the Properties View for the original specification (not places of reuse) for Test Cases, Test Suites and Test Jobs displays information on the changes made (Figure 3.11, “Tracking Changes”).

Figure 3.11. Tracking Changes

You can deactivate change tracking via the Project properties. To remove all current information about changes, use the delete option (Section 3.6.12.2, “Removing change tracking information from a Project”).

#### 3.6.12.2. Removing change tracking information from a Project

1. To remove all information on all nodes about changes made, open the Project properties:

   Test-->Properties

2. Select General from the tree on the left-hand side.

3. Click the button ”Delete all tracked data” and confirm when asked.

4. All data will be removed from the Project that were collected for the change tracking.

   | If a node is currently locked, then the data for this node will not be removed. You will see which nodes are affected in a dialog. We recommend deleting change tracking data when you are sure that no one else is using the Project.