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# About Activating Alert Rules

You can keep track of your requirements, tests, and defects as you perform your application management process. When an entity changes, you can instruct ALM to notify those responsible for any associated entities.

The alert rules you can activate are based on the following associations you can create in ALM:

- You can associate a test in the test plan tree with a requirement. This is performed by creating requirements coverage in the Test Plan module, or by creating tests coverage in the Requirements module.

- You can link a test with a defect. This is performed by adding a defect during a manual test run.

- You can create traceability links between requirements in the Requirements module.

After you have established associations in your project, you can then track changes using these associations. When an entity in your project changes, ALM alerts you of any associated entities that may be impacted by the change.

Version Control:ALM alerts associated entities only when a new version is checked in. The alert indicates that the version status has changed to Checked In. You can then compare the new version with the previous version. For details on comparing versions, refer to the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: History Tab.

Notification involves two steps. ALM flags the associated entity, which can be seen by all users, and then sends an email to the user responsible for the entity.

There are four alert rules you can activate:

Rule | Change Made | Entities Flagged | User Notified
--- | --- | --- | ---
1 | Requirement has any change, excluding changes in the Direct Cover Status field and the risk-based quality management fields. | Tests covering the requirement. | Test designer. Note that only the test designer can delete the alert.
2 | Defect status changes to "Fixed". | Test instances associated with the defect. | Responsible tester for the test instance.
3 | Test run status changes to "Passed". | Defects linked to the test instance. | User assigned to the defect.
4 | Requirement is deleted or has any change, excluding changes in the Direct Cover Status field and the risk-based quality management fields. | The requirement's child requirements and traced to requirements. | Author of the requirement.

For details on alerts, refer to the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: Alerts and Flags.

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