My question may sound a little bit stupid.
My team has to test a Web application that it is used by 3 different User Roles. So, we start by writing our Test Cases based on the User Stories. My problem is that I don't want to create 3 different Test Cases for each User Role. I think that this needs a lot of time when writing the Test Cases and later testing them because:
Total Test Cases Number = User Stories x Test Cases Per User Story x User Roles Number.
Moreover, I don't want to create new Test Cases if some time in the future a new User Role will be created because they will be just duplicates with some little differences.
Is there a better way to manage this situation?
Thanks in advance.
Single Responsibility Principle?
Code and test the user access separately to the user story, unless you really do get a completely different story based on your role, in which case, its a distinct spec and warrants its own test.