These diagrams display the tools that ALM Octane integrates with at each stage of your application's lifecycle.

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Micro Focus Connect

Micro Focus Connect is the designated synchronization solution for ALM Octane. For instructions on working with Micro Focus Connect, see Micro Focus Connect Help Center.

When working with Micro Focus Connect, there is a wide range of connectors that can be used to synchronize third-party applications with ALM Octane, including ALM, Jira, Rally, and many more. For the full list of connectors available with Micro Focus Connect, see Micro Focus Connect Connectors.

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IDE integrations

Work with ALM Octane from within your development IDE.

Integration	How?
IntelliJ	See Work in IntelliJ IDEA.
Eclipse	See Work in Eclipse Oxygen IDEs.
Microsoft Visual Studio	See Work in the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE .

For a feature support matrix, see Functionality supported by IDE integrations.

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Source Code Management (SCM) integrations

Via integration with your CI server, track changes committed to your Source Control Management system. For details, see Track changes committed to your Source Control Management system.

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Build automation: CI server integrations

ALM Octane incorporates data from your CI pipelines into your application delivery process, helping you analyze quality, progress, change impact, code coverage, and more. For details, see CI Pipelines.

• Plugins for Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo, TFS, and GoCD are available online.

• For Jenkins, this functionality is part of the Application Automation Tools plugin.

• For Azure DevOps Server 2019 and later, and Azure DevOps Services (VSTS), there is the ALM Octane Integration Extension (technical preview).

• For GitLab, there is a standalone application called ALM Octane GitLab CI service that uses the GitLab API to get events from GitLab and to push them to ALM Octane.

For a list of functionalities supported by each CI server integration, see Functionality supported by CI integrations.

For other CI servers, build your own plugin in Java using the CI Plugin SDK for ALM Octane available on GitHub.

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Testing tool integrations

ALM Octane incorporates tests and results from various sources into the overall product and release data.

Integration	How?
Micro Focus testing tools:  UFT One, UFT Developer, UFT Mobile, LoadRunner Professional, LoadRunner Cloud, and LoadRunner Enterprise	Use the Pipelines module in ALM Octane and integrate with your CI server. ALM Octane receives testing tool test run results from the pipeline runs. See Automated testing flow (pipelines).
UFT One (Unified Functional Testing)	Set up UFT One integration without pipelines. ALM Octane discovers UFT One tests and data tables stored in Git or SVN, enabling you to run the tests in ALM Octane test suites. See Set up UFT One integration and Run automated tests from ALM Octane.
ALM test run injection	Integrate between ALM Octane and ALM/QC to automatically inject test sets and test runs from ALM/QC to ALM Octane. Available with the following versions and later: ALM Octane 15.20.1 ALM/QC 15.5, 12.60 Patch 6 See Inject test runs from ALM/QC to ALM Octane.
ALM test result tracking (offline)	Via the ALM Test Result Collection Tool. (This is still supported, but we recommend that you use the ALM test run injection mechanism instead.) See Send automated test run results to ALM Octane.
Quality of Things (QoT)	On-premises users can use QoT to download planned manual runs and suite runs, run them offline, and upload test results to ALM Octane. See Quality of Things (QoT).
Sprinter	Run ALM Octane manual tests in Sprinter. See Run and edit manual tests in Sprinter.
Third-party testing tools and frameworks, such as Selenium, NUnit, JUnit, and TestNG.	Via pipelines, using an ALM Octane CI plugin. See Set up CI servers. You can also set up testing integrations that enable you to execute tests from ALM Octane test suites. See Trigger automated test runs in your testing framework.

Security testing integrations

Track your security issues as defects in ALM Octane:

Integration	How?
Fortify	Set up an integration with Fortify, enabling each ALM Octane pipeline run to display the new security vulnerabilities found on that run. For details, see Set up an integration with Fortify.
Fortify	The Fortify BugTracker Utility enables you to open security defects on ALM Octane directly from Fortify. For details, see the Micro Focus Fortify Marketplace page.
SonarQube	Set up an integration with SonarQube, enabling each ALM Octane pipeline run to display the new security vulnerabilities found on that run. For details, see Set up an integration with SonarQube.

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Integrations with Commercial Off the Shelf software (COTs)

ALM Octane integrates with the following COTs:

Integration	How?
ALM defect, requirement, and release synchronization	See Synchronization.
Jira defect and backlog synchronization	See Synchronization.
Test management for Jira	The ALM Octane – Test Management for Jira plugin provides Jira users test coverage and status information directly on native Jira Epics, Stories, Issues or custom types. See ALM Octane – Test Management for Jira plugin.
Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)	See Integrations with ALM Octane.
Slack	Add your ALM Octane workspace to a Slack workspace and open Slack channels from within backlog items or pipeline run failures. See Set up a chat.
Teams	You can share an entity and comment on it via a Microsoft Teams channel. For details, see Discuss on Microsoft Teams.
Third-party applications	See the Micro Focus AppDelivery Marketplace page.