ALM Octane Fundamentals (ALM110) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Course Overview
  • Explain the daily classroom schedule and structure
  • Review the overall course objectives
Module 2: Introduction to ALM Octane
  • Describe ALM Octane
  • Explain the ALM Octane lifecycle
  • Log in to ALM Octane
  • Explain the different modules in ValueEdge
Module 3: Project Management Flow
  • Create a space, workspace
  • Build a backlog
  • Set up releases, teams, and users
  • Plan a release
  • Track progress
  • Analyze and monitor release quality
  • View Workflow
Module 4: Backlog Management and Release Quality
  • 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
Module 5: Planning a Release
  • 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
Module 6: Managing the Team Backlog
  • Break stories into tasks
  • Assign stories using team member buckets
  • Track team progress
  • Work on your stories
Module 7: Testing Flows in ALM Octane
  • Describe and Create an Application Module
  • Summarize the manual testing flow
  • Describe manual and Gherkin tests
  • Create tests: Manual, Gherkin, Test Suite
  • Run manual tests, Gherkin tests, and test suites
  • Plan test runs
  • Report defects
  • Save and compare versions of test scripts
  • Add and run automated tests
Module 8: Managing Defects
  • Report defects
  • Fix defects
  • Monitor defects
  • Analyze product quality
Module 9: Agile Development Flow in ALM Octane
  • Plan and create a workflow in the Agile model
  • Create backlogs
  • Plan releases and sprints
  • Create tasks
  • Track overall release progress
  • Add tests to backlog items
  • Run tests
  • Analyze test results
  • Work with release
Module 10: My Work Page
  • Identify and view assigned items
  • View tests
  • View test runs
  • Advance the phase of an item
  • Attach files to items
  • View item history
Module 11: DevOps Main Flow
  • ALM Octane Integrations
  • Set up integration with a CI server
  • Obtain API access
  • Install the ALM Octane CI plugin
  • Add a CI server to ALM Octane
Module 12: Working with Pipelines
  • Describe pipelines
  • Explain how ALM Octane builds pipelines
  • Display pipelines in ALM Octane
  • Create and configure pipelines in the Jenkins UI
  • Edit the pipeline and configure pipeline steps in Jenkins
  • Run the pipeline from ALM Octane
  • View pipeline results
Module 13: ALM Octane Dashboards
  • Describe and use ALM Dashboards
  • Use Dashboards
  • Create and configure widgets
  • Analyze overall quality in the Dashboard
Module 14: ALM Octane Administration
  • Create workspaces
  • Create releases
  • Create teams
  • Add users
  • Create user-defined fields
  • Create forms
  • Create workflow phases
  • Create business rules