Test Review / Static-Testing Workflow (ISTQB #1054) — Modernized

Legacy TestLink 1.9.20 had no first-class peer-review workflow for test cases or requirements: reviewers were tracked ad-hoc through the tcversions.status / req_versions.status domains (draft, ready for review, review in progress, rework, obsolete, final), with no reviewer assignment, no review record and no audit trail. This gap (ISTQB CTFL chapter 3 static testing, issue #1279) is now closed in TestLink 2.0.1.

Modern screen

• Page: gui/templates/reviews/reviews.html
• API: api/reviews/index.php

The Dashio screen is a review board for the selected test project:

• Tiles for In review / Approved / Rejected / Cancelled counts.
• DataTable of review requests: entity title + doc id, type (Test Case / Requirement), status badge, reviewer, requester, created timestamp, actions (View details, Record decision).
• Filters: type, status, reviewer, plus DataTables search / paging.
• New Review Request modal: entity type, entity (latest version of a test case or requirement of the project), reviewer (users with access to the project), comments.
• Review Decision modal: review comments, Approve / Reject (Confirm / Cancel). A decision is final and syncs the underlying entity status.
• All labels come from the client-side TLi18n module; review.* keys exist in every locale bundle (en, ro, de, es, fr, it, ja, pt, ru, zh).

The ASIDE menu gains a Review entry (section 7b) for users holding mgt_view_tc / mgt_view_req / mgt_modify_tc.

REST BFF

api/reviews/index.php (session auth, JSON I/O):

Method	Route	Purpose
GET	?action=meta&tproject_id=N	statuses, entity types, reviewer candidates, canRequestTc / canRequestReq
GET	?action=candidates&tproject_id=N	assignable reviewers
GET	?action=list&tproject_id=N	review rows (joined logins) + per-status counts
GET	?action=entities&tproject_id=N&entity_type=tcase|requirement	reviewable entities (latest version)
POST	?action=create	create a review request
POST	?action=decide	approve / reject / cancel a review

Rights: mgt_view_tc / mgt_view_req to read; mgt_modify_tc / mgt_modify_req to request or decide. Schema is created lazily (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tc_reviews); tc_reviews is whitelisted in lib/functions/object.class.php and the DDL also lives in install/sql/mysql/testlink_create_tables.sql.

Decisions sync entity status:

• Test case: approve → Final (7), reject → Rework (4).
• Requirement: approve → F, reject → W.

Every transition writes an event: REVIEW_REQUEST, REVIEW_APPROVE, REVIEW_REJECT.

Verification

• Curl: meta / list / entities (tcase + requirement) / create (tcase + requirement) / decide (approve + reject) all OK; entity statuses confirmed in the DB (req_versions.status = F, tcversions.status = 4 then 7).
• Browser: tiles, table, filters, i18n (EN + RO), create modal and decision modal exercised; toasts Review request created. / Review decision recorded.; counts update live.
• Event Viewer: no new Error/Warning entries.
• Test suite: Task — Issue #1279 in tmp/TLU_Test_Cases.md — 9/9 curl steps + browser create/decide PASS.

Security hardening (object-level authorization)

POST ?action=create originally trusted the client-supplied entity_title, entity_doc_id and version_id, so a user with manage rights on project A could open a review against an entity of project B and the decide path would then write project B's entity status. reviewFindEntity() now resolves the entity inside the target test project and the insertion uses only the DB-derived title/doc-id/latest version; the reviewer must be an assignable member of the project. Verified: a spoofed entity_title/entity_doc_id/ version_id is ignored, a foreign/unknown entity returns 404 and an unknown reviewer returns 400.

Defect found and fixed during the run

The requirement entity listing originally joined req_versions.id = requirements.id. In 2.0.1 the requirement version is a child node of the requirement node (nodes_hierarchy.parent_id = requirements.id), so the query returned no requirements. The join now resolves the latest version through the child node (nodes_hierarchy(parent_id) JOIN req_versions ON req_versions.id = child.id), verified id 8 → version node 9.