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Quick guide for QA managers

This guide provides an overview of the possibilities that Katalon TestOps can offer when planning tests, organizing test artifacts, and analyzing test reports.

Requirements

Plan tests

As a QA manager, you must provide detailed test plans that outline the approach, objectives, scope, resources, schedule, and procedures for testing a software application.

TestOps facilitates test planning by allowing you to create releases and builds. Inside a release or a build, you can link all the testing requirements and check for release readiness or requirement coverage.

TestOps also supports integration with Jira. You can link test runs in TestOps with Jira requirements. See: Enable TestOps - Jira integration for test management.

Note:
To create a release and link a test run, follow these steps:
  1. In TestOps, go to Planning. In the Releases tab, click Create Release.

  2. In the Create Release section, fill in the release information:
    • Name: the release version (e.g., release 8.0.0).
    • Start Date: when you want to start your release time frame.
    • Release Date: when your release ends.
  3. Click Create.

Result: You have now created a release.
Once Jira integration is enabled, you can:

After creating a release, you can link test runs to a release. See: Link test runs to a release in TestOps

The Planning > Releases tab as shown in the image below allows you to view and analyze test releases and its readiness after linking your test runs to Jira releases.

The Release tab

The Planning > Requirements tab organizes your Jira requirements linked to your test cases. This tab also allows you to access and view test case coverage and traceability matrix reports.

The Requirement tab

If you have enabled BDD configuration in Katalon TestOps, you can also quickly check BDD test results in the Requirement tab. See: View BDD test results in TestOps

Organize your test cases

Here is a quick guide for QA managers on how to organize test cases in Katalon TestOps.

In Katalon TestOps, you first need to upload your test scripts using Git repositories to Katalon TestOps. This allows you to manage version control and synchronization in the Katalon TestOps. See: Configure a Git repository in TestOps.

After uploading your test scripts from the Git repository, you can organize your tests in test suites or dynamic test suites.

If you want to run parallel tests with multiple browsers, you can add and manage your test suites in a test suite collection. See: Manage test suite collections in Katalon Studio.

Analyze your test reports

Here is a quick guide for QA managers on how to view and understand test reports in Katalon TestOps.

Katalon TestOps provides several ways to gain a clear view of the overall readiness of your projects.

As part of your daily tasks, you will refer to the test reports to evaluate your testing progress. Go to your Project > Reports on the Katalon TestOps dashboard to view your test reports.

To learn more about test reports, see: Reports overview.

The test reports most referred to by Katalon users are:

ReportWhat does it do?
Test ActivitiesShows your testing activities in daily/weekly/monthly periods. This enables faster troubleshooting and assists you in the decision-making process of your product cycle.

See: Test activities reports

Release ReadinessShows how ready your releases are. This allows you to:
  • Evaluate the status of the two most recent releases.

  • Oversee your release plan with reminders of the delivery date.

  • Monitor productivity to see progress in development and testing.

  • Highlight the total number of defects for each release.

See: Release Readiness reports
ProductivityTracks the total number of test cases you have created in your project in a daily/weekly/monthly period.

See: Productivity reports

QualityShows the test quality based on Flakiness Test Distribution (the distribution of test cases by their flakiness probability).

See: Quality reports

Platform CoverageShows the coverage of test runs or test results executed in corresponding environments.

See: Platform coverage reports

Requirement Coverage

Provides the coverage status of requirements for a given scope. This allows you to centralize all Jira and BDD requirements in one single place for reports and analytics.

See: Requirement coverage reports

Local Test EnvironmentShows the number of online and offline agents and the distribution of all agents by the operating system.

See: Local test environment reports

Next steps

Now that you've learned how to plan and organize tests in the Katalon Platform, as well as analyze test reports, you can explore Katalon Platform's other helpful features for QA managers.

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