487517 - "Alias" field cannot be edited after created

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Testopia :: Fields, defect)

Description

[Yummy Tester]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/1.0.154.53 Safari/525.19
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 GTB5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

In "Create a New Test Case" dialog window, there is "Alias" field is used to give the case a name. After create the case, the alias seems cannot be changed, there is no option to edit this field. 

What in case a user gives a wrong alias name or he/she wants to change it later?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click [Dashboard]
2. click [Test Cases] tab in the middle panel
3. click [Create a New Test Case] button
4. select a test plan to use
5. input sample data, give an alias name to this test case
6. submit the form
Actual Results:  
If I want to change the alias name, there is no option allow me to do so.

Expected Results:  
There is an option to allow me edit Alias field.

Comment 1

[Greg Hendricks]

You change it on the automation tab. Since Alias is meant to be used with automation, check the automated box and you will see the field.

Comment 2

[Yummy Tester]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You change it on the automation tab. Since Alias is meant to be used with
> automation, check the automated box and you will see the field.

You are right, it can be edited in Automation tab. So it is a false report and the case can be closed.