Customization: Setting Test Case fields with default values

The Field defaults customization can be used to initialize arbitrary Test Case fields that are otherwise would not be updated by SpecSync to a default value. This might be useful for custom Azure DevOps process templates.

The Field defaults customization described here is an Enterprise feature.

In order to enable this customization, the customizations/fieldDefaults section of the configuration has to be enabled. The complete reference of the configuration settings can be found in the customizations configuration reference.

The following example shows a basic configuration that initializes the field MyCompany.MyCustomField to value1.

{
  ...
 "customizations": {
    "fieldDefaults": {
      "enabled": true,
      "defaultValues": {
        "MyCompany.MyCustomField": "value1"
      }
    }
  }
  ...
}

The fields have to be identified using their reference name and not their label. E.g. the reference name for the Description field is System.Description. The reference names of the built-in fields can be found in the Azure DevOps documentation.

This customization uses the specified values only to _initialize _the field when the Test Case is created. To update custom fields, use the Custom field updates customization.