Who Should Attend?
- Quality Assurance engineers
- DevOps team members
- Project Managers
- Quality Assurance leads
Exam Details
There is no exam as part of this course.
Objectives
- Summarise what ALM Octane is and where it fits in your project lifecycle
- Differentiate ALM Octane from the traditional ALM (ALM.NET)
- Define the purpose of ALM Octane
- Describe the various features and functionalities available with ALM Octane
- Describe how ALM Octane helps in Agile methodology by supporting velocity without compromising quality
- Perform administration tasks at a basic level on the ALM Octane platform
Select a date
Please note: this course runs on demand so the price is TBC. It can be arranged to run on-site at your offices as Training for Teams or as a public course if there is sufficient interest.
Please contact us for more details.
Course Content and Agenda
This course covers 17 modules over three days as detailed below:
- Explain the daily classroom schedule and structure
- Review the overall course objectives
- Describe ALM Octane
- Explain the ALM Octane lifecycle
- Log in to ALM Octane
- Set up releases, teams, and workflows
- Build a backlog
- Plan a release
- Track progress
- Analyse and monitor release quality
- Plan and create workflow in the Agile model
- Create backlogs
- Plan releases and sprints
- Create tasks
- Track overall release progress
- Summarise the manual testing flow
- Describe manual and Gherkin tests
- Create tests
- Execute tests
- Report defects
- Analyse results
- Set up integration with a CI server
- Create a pipeline
- Configure the pipeline
- Run pipelines from ALM Octane
- Assign tests to application modules and backlog items
- Analyse the build and release quality
- Emulating correct “real user” behaviour
- Identify and view assigned items
- View tests
- View test runs
- Advance the phase of an item
- Relate items to other items
- Attach files to items
- View item history
- Define ALM Octane backlog
- Explain the backlog cycle
- Explain backlog entities
- Build product backlogs
- Create the backlog tree
- Add user stories and quality stories to the backlog
- Rank the backlog
- Rank the backlog items subsets
- Identify release planning prerequisites
- Build a release backlog
- Assign backlog items to individual team members
- Move stories to another release
- Balance release and sprint workloads
- Break stories into tasks
- Assign stories using team member buckets
- Track team progress
- Work on your stories
- Describe pipelines
- Explain how ALM Octane builds pipelines
- Display pipelines in ALM Octane
- Create and configure pipelines in the Jenkins UI
- Create an ALM Octane pipeline in Jenkins
- Edit the pipeline and configure pipeline steps in Jenkins
- Run the pipeline from ALM Octane
- View pipeline results
- Analyse automated test failures
- Track code changes
- View and share the pipeline overview
- Create manual tests
- Create Gherkin tests
- Automate Gherkin tests
- Create test suites
- Save and compare versions of test scripts
- Run manual tests, Gherkin tests, and test suites
- Plan test runs
- Add automated tests
- Run automated tests
- Analyse automated test run results
- Report defects
- Fix defects
- Monitor defects
- Analyse product quality
- Track and analyse build, release, and product quality
- Analyse overall quality in the Dashboard
- View an overview of product or release quality
- Analyse product and release quality in ALM Octane grids
- Analyse build quality using pipeline data
- Describe and use ALM Dashboards
- Use Dashboards
- Create and configure widgets
- Create workspaces
- Create releases
- Create teams
- Add users
- Create user-defined fields
- Create forms
- Create workflow phases
- Create business rules
- Add tests to backlog items
- Run tests
- Analyse test results
- Work with release
