We are trying to use VSTS work item management with as few modifications as possible. One of the requirements we have is that our QA department needs to be able to find out which PBIs and Bugs are ready for them to start working.
(we are using our own inherited process based on the built-in SCRUM template)
Our definition of "ready for QA" is that - for e.g. a PBI - all non-QA tasks are done.
I have created this board:
In this case we should be able to make a list (query) that would result in these PBI's and Bugs:
- 5101 Demo - Ready for QA
- 4970 Demo - Ready for QA
- 8542 Bug - Ready for QA
I have made a query that does that (I got help over here)
PROBLEM:
So until we actually started onboarding QA resources, everything was bliss.
However - we have found out that if we make a "link" to PBI's and Bugs they disappear from the result. We need our QA-resources to create a link from their Test cases to the PBI's and bugs and such the query I have does not work anymore.
But - I cannot ... for the love of God ... figure out how to modify my query to enable this. Any references break my query - even between a PBI and a Bug.
What do I do with this?
Problem walk-through:
Before adding references to either PBIs or Bugs the query looks like this:
The query returns two PBIs and one Bug.
Then I add a "Related" link from a Test case to the Bug:
The query now has this result:
Solution found:
The result of the query after the solution proposed by Marina is this:
