Two main behaviours of interest: * The CI monkey will not test a slice on a case that has an open sub-case. * Parent cases can only be closed when all sub-cases are closed. So parent cases are useful: * When its required that a fix needs to be staged into several steps. The last step is the parent case. As each sub-case is closed, the CI will immediately test the parent slice. * While trying to fix issue A, you find another issue B that its better to deal with spearately, that A depends on. Make B a sub-case of A. * When its useful to break up a task into several smaller steps. For example: Convert *all* "xxx" method calls to "yyy" method calls might be too much to manage all at once. or "Make all CI tests green". In this case you might create an "over-arching" case. cheers -ben On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Sergio Fedi <sergio.fedi@gmail.com> wrote:
What are Parent Cases?
What problem do they address? When should they be used?