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# Testing

As you develop your application, testing is a critical part of the process. Testing ensures that the product meets your organization's quality standards. To assist, ALM Octane helps you with many types of testing frameworks and test types.

ALM Octane supports manual, Gherkin, and automated tests.

Manual tests and Gherkin test | Use Manual tests and Gherkin tests for acceptance testing, unit testing, or integration testing. In these tests, the tester uses the application to make everything works as expected. Manual tests list each step and you perform the test, step by step. Gherkin tests contain scenarios that describe what to test but give the freedom how to test.
Automated tests | Automated tests are helpful for repetitive tasks and performing difficult tasks. Use automated tests for unit testing, regression testing, and continuous integration. You maintain automated tests in external testing tools.

ALM Octane incorporates test run results in dashboard and quality analysis.

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## Test entities

The following table lists the various test entities:

Test entity | Description
--- | ---
Manual Test | Manual tests make sure an application works as expected by testing most of its features. Manual test types include acceptance, end-to-end, regression, sanity, security, performance, and others. This entity represents the test steps to perform in the application under test. For details, see Testing.
Gherkin Test | Gherkin tests are a type of manual test. They use the Gherkin syntax and scenario structure. Gherkin test subtypes also include acceptance, end-to-end, regression, sanity, security, and performance. This entity represents the scenarios to perform on the application under test.
Test Suite | A container with set of tests grouped in one unit. Can contain manual tests and Gherkin tests that run sequentially, as well as executable automation tests that are triggered to run on a CI server. Test suites contain no independent steps of their own.
Automated Test | Automated tests are edited and managed in external tools, such as UFT One, LoadRunner, and UFT Developer, LoadRunner Enterprise. You can run the tests on automation and CI servers or on ALM and send the results to ALM Octane. This entity represents the script (not editable) that is stored and maintained in the external tool. Executable automated tests can run as part of a test suite in ALM Octane. For details, see Testing and Add UFT One tests from an SCM repository.
Manual Test Run | A manual run of a test. See Testing for usage examples.
Gherkin Test Run | An automated run of a Gherkin test.
Test Suite Run | A run of a test suite.
Automated Test Run | A run of an automated test, by a CI server such as Jenkins or TeamCity.
Pipeline | ALM Octane pipelines consist of pipeline steps, which represent the jobs that run on your CI server. Pipelines enable you to interact with your CI server. For example, ALM Octane collects the results of automated tests that run on the CI server.
Pipeline Run | A run of a pipeline, by a CI server such as Jenkins or TeamCity. Pipeline runs consist of builds, and can include information about failing automated tests, SCM commits related to this pipeline run, and more.
Build | A build is the result of a pipeline step run. A pipeline run consists of builds. If a pipeline step runs automated tests, its build consists of automated test runs.
Vulnerability | Vulnerabilities are security issues found in your code by a security testing scan. After reviewing a vulnerability, you can create a relevant defect to fix in your code, or dismiss and close the issue.

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See also:

- Manual testing flow
- Create Gherkin tests
- Automated testing flow (pipelines)
- Create test suites
- Track and analyze product quality

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