The General tab gives you opportunity to configure Steps and enable Preconditions.
The Steps Configuration gives you opportunity to configure Steps. You can leave the default configuration or adapt it to an existing process.
Changing statuses affects the configuration of already existing issue types with Steps.
The status set in the Default steps status will be displayed as the first status in a given step. To change the default status, click the selection box and select a different status from the list.
This action will delete the Steps column with data from all issues in the current project.
This option permit to select Test Case statuses in which editing Steps will be not allowed. In the selected statuses, you will be:
To add a status, click the selection box and select the appropriate status from the list.
This option permit to select Test Case statuses in which executing Steps will be not allowed. In the selected issue statuses you will be:
To add a status, click the selection box and select the appropriate status from the list.
This option gives the ability to display Steps panel on other issue types in a given project. You can select additional issue types from list and use Steps like in Test Case Templates (Steps without Status column). To add an issue, click the selection box and select the appropriate issue from the list.
The configuration of Additional Steps issue types option is available when the Test Repository or Test Execution module (or both) is enabled.
The Preconditions Configuration gives you opportunity to enable Preconditions and decide from which projects you want to share preconditions in current project. This field is presented on Test Case Template and Test Case view.
To enable Preconditions click the slider. After enabling this option:
Find out more on the Preconditions and Preconditions repository pages.
With this option it is possible to use the existing Preconditions repository from another project. All you need to do is select a project/s from the list. Only those projects in which Preconditions are enabled are available on the list.
If you disable Preconditions from project/s with which you share their repository, they will be shown on the Projects with disabled preconditions list. The Preconditions repository from that project/s will be not available anymore in current project.