How to Work with Build Verification Suites in ALM

This task describes how to create a build verification suite, which enables you to test the status of a particular build of your application under test.

To learn more about build verification, see Build Verification Overview.

This task includes the following steps:

1. Prerequisites

   In the Test Lab module, create the functional test sets that will be included in the build verification suite. For details about creating test sets, see How to Create Test Sets.

   Create the performance test to be added to the build verification suite. For information about creating performance tests, refer to the Performance Center documentation.

   Note: You can include existing functional test sets and performance tests in the build verification suite. You do not need to create new ones specifically for this purpose.

2. Create a build verification suite

   1. On the ALM sidebar, under Testing, select Build Verification.

   2. Click the Build Verification Suites folder and on the toolbar click the New Build Verification Suite Folder button.

   3. Click the New Build Verification Suite button and enter a name for your build verification suite. Click OK. The build verification suite is added to the tree.

3. Add Functional Test Sets and a Performance Test to the Suite

   Add functional test sets to the suite from the Functional Test Sets tab. For user interface details, see Functional Test Sets Tab.

   Add a performance test to the suite from the Performance Test tab. For user interface details, see Performance Test Tab.

4. Run the Suite

   Use one of the following methods:

   • Run the suite immediately. On the Build Verification Suites page toolbar, click Run. The Run Build Verification Suite dialog box opens, enabling you to select immediate timeslot for the suite. For user interface details, see .

   • Run the suite at a specified time. Reserve a future timeslot for the suite to enable you to run it at a later date. For details, see Reserving Timeslots.

5. View Test Results

   For each build verification suite that runs, ALM generates an Execution Report. The Execution Report provides general details about the suite, overall information per test set, as well as drilled-down run information for each individual test within the suite.

   If you ran the suite from within the Build Verification module via an ad-hoc timeslot, you can view the Execution Report details in real time. Irrespective of which method you use to run the suite, you can access the report by clicking the Last Run Report button on the Build Verification Suites page toolbar.

   For user interface details, see Execution Report Page - Desktop Client.