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title: How to Link Issues to Test Case?
url: https://www.qatouch.com/blog/how-to-link-issues-to-test-case/
published: 2018-07-19T08:06:16+00:00
modified: 2018-07-19T08:06:16+00:00
author: Swathisri R
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tags: [QA Touch, Software Testing, Test Management Software]
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# How to Link Issues to Test Case?

This Blog summarizes How to link Issues to Test cases and track them in QA Touch. Following are the ways to achieve Issue-Test case Mapping in QA Touch.

- Linking Issues with The Test case

Link New Issue

- Link Existing Issue

Link Issues to The Test case.

- Link Test case to Issue

- Viewing Linked Issues

## Linking Issues with The Test case

QA Touch provides Two ways to Link Issues with The Test case

- Link New Issue

- Link Existing Issue

## Link New Issues

You can create a new Issue for a test case from Test run the created issue is automatically linked with the test case. Follow the below steps to create a new issue and link with test case

- Click  **Add Issue**  icon.![add_issue_click](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/add_issue_click-1024x514.png)If the Test case is marked Failed, Add Issue page pops up automatically.

- In Add Issue popup, enter data in the below fields:

Issue summary

- Select Priority

- Assign Issue

- Click save to create new Issue

![add_issue](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/add_issue.png)

- The Created Issue will be automatically linked to the specific test case.

## Link Existing Issue

QA Touch provide two ways to link existing Issue to Test case, You can bidirectionally link Issues and Test cases:

- Link Issues to Test cases

- Link Test cases to Issues

## Link Existing Issues to Test Case

**To Link existing Issues to test case:**

- Select Test case to which you need to link Issues

- Click on Link Issue icon

![link_issue_click](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/link_issue_click-1024x515.png)

- Select Issues to be linked in the popup, You can also select multiple issues

- Click save to link selected Issues with the test case

![link_issue](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/link_issue.png)

- Selected Issues will be linked to test cases.

**To Link Existing Test cases to Issue**

Existing Test cases can be mapped to Issue from Issue list page

To link test cases to issue

- Click Link Test case icon

![link_case_click](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/link_case_click-1024x514.png)

- Choose the Test case **Module **from **Test Case Modules **Drop-down

- Test cases under selected module will be listed

- Select Test cases to link with Issue

- Click **Save **Button

![link_case](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/link_case-1024x475.png)

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The linking with test cases selection page will look like the screenshot above.

## Viewing Linked Issues

Tracking Linked Issues has made easier in QA Touch. You can Track Issue – Test case Mapping from both Test case and Issues.

- Viewing Linked Issues From TestCase

The List of Issues Linked with Test case were displayed in Test Result View

![link_issue_view](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/link_issue_view-1024x512.png)

You can also Unlink the Issue from test case by clicking  **X **** **unlink icon.

- **Viewing Linked Test Cases From Issue**

To view Linked Test cases click **Linked Test Cases** in Issue View page. The issue view page will look like the screenshot below:

![link_case_view_click](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/link_case_view_click-1024x514.png)

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The Linked Test cases  popup shows the List of Test cases Linked with Issue as shown below snapshot:

![view_case](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/view_case.png)

You can also Unlink the test case from Issue by clicking delete.

Hope the procedure turned out to be useful. A ton of know-how articles like this are down the pipeline and do stay subscribed to get notified about those.