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