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.
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Test types
ALM Octane helps you with different types of testing frameworks and test types.
ALM Octane supports manual, Gherkin, and automated tests:
ALM Octane incorporates test run results in dashboard and quality analysis.
Test entities
The following table lists the various test entities:
Test entity | Description |
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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 Manual testing flow. |
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 a set of tests grouped in one unit. Test suites contain no independent steps of their own. A test suite can contain:
You assign test runs to people, and run each test individually. After finishing all the test runs, ALM Octane aggregates the results of each test run into a single suite run. |
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 Automated testing flow and Add UFT One tests from an SCM repository. |
Manual Test Run |
A manual run of a test. See Manual test syntax 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 |
ValueEdge and 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, ValueEdge and 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.
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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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