Recycle Bin for Quality Center

We've all done it at one stage or another—deleted a test in Quality Center, only to realise that it was deleted by mistake. To fix this you would have to manually capture the lost data, or restore the project from a backup (assuming there is one) and salvage the lost data from there.

It would be great to have a "Recycle Bin" feature in Quality Center to provide a restore capability when something was deleted by accident. With Quality Center's workflow engine, it is possible to implement just that.

The Recycle Bin can be developed as a feature integrated with the existing Delete function. It will also retain version control of deleted entities if version control is implemented. Below is an example that shows how a Recycle Bin was implemented in the Test Plan module (it is also possible to develop a similar feature for the Requirements and Test Lab modules):

At this stage the way to restore a test or folder would be to manually move it from the Recycle Bin back to it's original location. However the recycle bin feature can be further enhanced to provide an automatic restore with a custom "Restore" button on the toolbar.