Recent support article improvements
We’re always adding new content and making updates to our support documentation in order to help you get the most out of Provar. Here is a quick overview of some of our recent updates at a glance.
Recent updates
- [New] Published Spring ’23 Release 2 release notes February 15, 2023
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for Spring ’23 Release 2, February 2023
- [New] Published Gmail Connection in Provar with App Password support article January 12, 2023
- [New] Published Spring ’23 Release 1 release notes January 6, 2023
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for Spring ’23 Release 1, January 2023
- [New] Published the Integrating with LambdaTest support article January 6, 2023
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.8.2 release notes December 1, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.8.2 December 2022
- [New] Published the Override auto-retry for Test Step support article December 1, 2022
- [New] Published the OAuth 2.0 Microsoft Exchange Email Connection support article December 1, 2022
- [New] Published the OAuth 2.0 Configuration for MS Exchange support article December 1, 2022
- [New] Published the Generate Test Case support article December 1, 2022
- [New] Published the Page Object Cleaner support article December 1, 2022
- [New] Published the Provar Jenkins Plugin support article December 1, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Integrating with Provar Manager support article December 1, 2022
- [New] Published the Integrating with Test Manager support article August 26, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.8.0 August 2022
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.8.0 release notes August 26, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.7.2 July 2022
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.7.2 release notes July 28, 2022
- [New] Published the Flosum configuration support article May 18, 2022
- [New] Published the Flosum Architecture overview support article May 18, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Flosum integration introduction support article with the latest information May 18, 2022
- [New] Published the Improve your metadata performance support article May 9, 2022
- [New] Published the Adding a Salesforce OAuth(JWT) connection support article May 6, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.7.0 May 2022
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.7.0 release notes on May 6, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.6.3 March 2022
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.6.3 release notes March 16, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the integration steps for Micro Focus ALM support article March 15, 2022
- [New] Published the Update to Opportunity field validation behavior support article January 6, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.6.0 January 2022
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.6.0 release notes January 6, 2022
- [Updated] Updated the Test Builder not working correctly support article to use only one Chrome Extension Id October 27, 2021
- [New] Published the Execution Environment Security Configuration support article August 27, 2021
- [New] Published the Integrating with Sauce Labs Real Device support article August 27, 2021
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.5.0 August 2021
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.5.0 release notes August 27, 2021
- [Updated] Added new screenshots and information about using skipped steps in test cases to the Reporting support article August 27, 2021
- [New] Published the Salesforce CPQ Configuration Setting support article August 16, 2021
- [New] Published the Integrating with TestRail support article on August 9, 2021
- [New] Published the Reading data from Database Query results in support article August 6, 2021
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.4.1 July 2021
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.4.1 release notes July 7, 2021
- [New] Published the CircleCI Orb support article May 27, 2021
- [New] Published the CircleCI Common Build Errors support article May 27, 2021
- [Updated] Updated the Vlocity testing support article with the latest information May 27, 2021
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.4.0 May 2021
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.4.0 release notes on May 7, 2021
- [New] Published the Run under ANT limitation with macOS Big Sur support article March 18, 2021
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.3.1 March 2021
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.3.1 release notes March 18, 2021
- [New] Published the Adding a Salesforce OAuth connection support article on March 17, 2021
- [New] Published the Slack Integration with Provar support article February 5, 2021
- [New] Published the Running a Provar CI task in GitHub Action support article January 22, 2021
- [New] Published the Remote Trigger in GitHub Actions support article January 22, 2021
- [New] Published the Parameterization using Environment Variables in GitHub Actions support article January 22, 2021
- [New] Published the Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using multiple build.xml files support article January 22, 2021
- [New] Published the Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Targets support article January 22, 2021
- [New] Published the Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Test Plan support article January 22, 2021
- [New] Published the Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Job Matrix support article January 22, 2021
- [New] Published the Dynamic Forms support article January 7, 2021
- [Updated] Updated the BrowserStack Desktop article to include Overriding Browserstack credentials and Local testing with BrowserStack January 7, 2021
- [Updated] Updated the Salesforce Release Updates articles with updated testing recommendations January 7, 2021
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver recommendations article with the specs for 2.3.0 January 2021
- [Updated] Updated the Running Provar on Linux article with the latest ANT version information December 17, 2020
- [New] Published the Provar version 2.2.1 release notes November 18, 2020
- [New] Published the Refresh and reselect field locators support article November 17, 2020
- [New] Published the macOS Big Sur upgrade issue support article November 17, 2020
- [New] Published the Chrome 87 compatibility issue (Windows) support article on November 17, 2020
- [Updated] Updated the Browser and driver requirements for Provar 2.2.1 November 17, 2020
- [New] Published Installing Oracle drivers October 28, 2020
- [New] Published the Custom table mapping and Understanding table mapping in page objects October 26, 2020
- [Updated] Updated the Salesforce Release Updates article with the latest information and testing recommendations October 16, 2020
- [New] Published the Integrating with Jira (via REST API) support article on October 13, 2020
- [Updated] Added an example to the UI on-screen support article illustrating how auto-navigate using Salesforce IDs can take you to a record detail page. October 9, 2020
- [Updated] Added new screenshots to the Internationalization support article that illustrate testing a French Salesforce org and added additional, descriptive information about this feature September 25, 2020
- [New] Published the Parallel execution in Microsoft Azure Pipelines using Test Plans support article September 23, 2020
- [Updated] Added new screenshots and information about creating a page object operation to retrieve the current URL from your browser to the Page object operations support article September 21, 2020
- [New] Published the Setup and teardown test cases support article September 17, 2020
- [New] Published the Refresh and Recompile support article September 17, 2020
- [New] Published the Reload Org Cache support article September 17, 2020
- [New] Added Version 2.2.0 Winter ’21 release notes September 11, 2020
- [Updated] Updated the GitLab CI, Working with Git, Git, and Provar projects, Creating a Git repository for Provar projects, and the Introduction to Git integration articles to note that as of 2.2.0, the Git plugin is packaged with Provar September 11, 2020
- [Updated] Updated this support article title to reflect that Zephyr Cloud is generally available September 11, 2020
- [Updated] Added the Enforced Activation Date and the Recommended Complete Steps By Date for Salesforce Critical Updates September 1, 2020
- [Updated] Added the browser and driver recommendations for Provar version 2.2.0 September 1, 2020
- [New] Published the AutoRABIT integration support article August 18, 2020
- [Updated] Added information about the type of parameters for custom APIs to Creating custom APIs August 14, 2020
- [New] Published the Salesforce DX integration using ANT support article August 12, 2020
- [New] Published the ProvarDX installation support article August 12, 2020
- [New] Published the Salesforce DX integration support article August 12, 2020
- [New] Published Tags and SLAs support article August 7, 2020
- [Updated] Clarified that Salesforce has retired the Salesforce mobile web experience (updated the Mobile Emulation and Salesforce Mobile articles) August 7, 2020
- [Updated] Clarified that these instructions are related to integrating Salesforce DX using ANT August 7, 2020
- [New] Published the 2.1.1 release notes August 6, 2020
- [Updated] Updated the TestRunMonitorDemo.java syntax within Reporting August 6, 2020
- [New] Published Bitbucket Pipelines August 5, 2020
- [New] Published Salesforce Lightning Web Component (LWC) locator support August 4, 2020
- [New] Published ProvarX™ August 4, 2020
- [New] Published JavaScript locator support August 4, 2020
- [Updated] Added additional information to Test case that does not run on IE browser to help troubleshoot error messages July 31, 2020
- [New] Published Zephyr Cloud and Server (Beta) July 29, 2020
- [New] Published Salesforce critical updates July 29, 2020
- [Updated] Added browser and driver recommendations for Provar version 2.1.1 July 28, 2020
- [New] Configuration for sending emails via the Provar Command Line Interface (CLI) published July 27, 2020
- [New] Executing test cases parallel in multiple agents using Azure Pipelines and Provar Test Plans published July 24, 2020
- [Updated] Clarified that we recommend using this function at the end of test cases on the TestRunErrors functions page on July 16, 2020
- [Updated] Updated the second example and added a third example on the StringTrim functions page on July 16, 2020
- [Updated] Replaced the sample test case on the Round functions page on July 16, 2020
- [Updated] Replaced the sample test case on the StringNormalize functions page July 16, 2020
- [Updated] Replaced the sample test case on the StringReplace functions page on July 16, 2020
- [Updated] Added a third example {Round(3.999, 1, FLOOR)} Round FLOOR, e.g. 3.9 to the Round functions page July 16, 2020
Older updates
- [Updated] Added links to existing Test Palette documentation to the Test Palette introduction page July 6, 2020
- [Updated] Separated the Control test step documentation into individual support articles within Support > Using the Test Palette > Control test steps July 6, 2020
- [New] Running a Provar CI task in Azure DevOps published June 5, 2020
- [New] Configuring the Provar secrets password in Microsoft Azure Pipelines published June 5, 2020
- [New] Parallel execution in Microsoft Azure Pipelines using targets published June 5, 2020
- [New] Parallel execution in Microsoft Azure Pipelines using multiple build.xml files published June 5, 2020
- [New] Browser and driver recommendations published June 1, 2020
- [New] 2.1.0 release notes published May 29, 2020
- [New] Setting Java Development Kit (JDK) environment variables published May 6, 2020
- [Updated] Java version mismatch error. This article was updated on May 5, 2020, to include the updated range of tested and compatible versions.
- [New] Resolving high memory usage published May 4, 2020
- [New] Read test step published April 29, 2020
- [New] Provar naming standards published April 27, 2020
- [New] ServiceMax Field Service App (FSA) mobile testing on Windows published April 15, 2020
- [New] Micro Focus ALM Octane published March 31, 2020
Documentation library
- Provar Automation
- Installing Provar Automation
- Updating Provar Automation
- Using Provar Automation
- API testing
- Behavior-driven development
- Creating and importing projects
- Creating test cases
- Custom table mapping
- Functions
- Debugging tests
- Defining a namespace prefix on a connection
- Defining proxy settings
- Environment management
- Exporting test cases into a PDF
- Exporting test projects
- Override auto-retry for Test Step
- Managing test steps
- Namespace org testing
- NitroX
- Provar desktop
- Provar Test Builder
- Refresh and Recompile
- Reintroduction of CLI license Check
- Reload Org Cache
- Reporting
- Running tests
- Searching Provar with find usages
- Secrets management and encryption
- Setup and teardown test cases
- Tags and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Test cycles
- Test plans
- Testing browser options
- Tooltip testing
- Using the Test Palette
- Using custom APIs
- Callable tests
- Data-driven testing
- Page objects
- Block locator strategies
- Introduction to XPaths
- Creating an XPath
- JavaScript locator support
- Label locator strategies
- Maintaining page objects
- Mapping non-Salesforce fields
- Page object operations
- ProvarX™
- Refresh and reselect field locators in Test Builder
- Using Java method annotations for custom objects
- Applications testing
- DevOps
- Introduction to test scheduling
- Apache Ant
- Configuration for Sending Emails via the Automation Command Line Interface
- Continuous integration
- AutoRABIT Salesforce DevOps in Provar Test
- Azure DevOps
- Running a Provar CI Task in Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Configuring the Automation secrets password in Microsoft Azure Pipelines
- Parallel Execution in Microsoft Azure Pipelines Using Multiple build.xml Files
- Parallel Execution in Microsoft Azure Pipelines using Targets
- Parallel execution in Microsoft Azure Pipelines using Test Plans
- Bitbucket Pipelines
- CircleCI
- Copado
- Docker
- Flosum
- Gearset DevOps CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Integrating GitHub Actions CI to Run Automation CI Task
- Remote Trigger in GitHub Actions
- Parameterization using Environment Variables in GitHub Actions
- Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Multiple build.xml Files
- Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Targets
- Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Test Plan
- Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Job Matrix
- GitLab Continuous Integration
- Travis CI
- Jenkins
- Execution Environment Security Configuration
- Provar Jenkins Plugin
- Parallel Execution
- Running Provar on Linux
- Reporting
- Salesforce DX
- Git
- Team Foundation Server
- Version control
- Provar Automation trial guide and extensions
- Salesforce Testing
- Provar Manager
- Best Practices
- Troubleshooting
- Release Notes