How to Use Provar Manager
In this section, we will explain what Provar Manager is, what it can do and why it is useful as well as show how to take advantage of its main features.
What to Know Before using Provar Manager
Overview of a Testing Life Cycle
Testing is an important aspect of any software development life cycle, involving a wide variety of activities that can also be defined as a separate life cycle running sequentially (i.e. Waterfall) or in parallel (i.e. Agile). Depending on the chosen approach to software development (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, etc.), these testing activities will occur at different times, with more or less level of importance, and with varying levels of detail.
Regardless of this, the activities themselves can be categorised as follows:
- Requirement analysis – The QA team tries to understand the software requirements in detail, often communicating with various stakeholders, and starts considering what sort of tests should be done and in what way (e.g., manual vs automated).
- Test Planning – The QA team determines the strategy, resources, limitations, efforts, and costs involved in the testing endeavor.
- Test Case Design – The QA team creates, verifies, and improves test cases and test scripts.
- Test Environment Setup – The QA team decides the software and hardware conditions under which the applications will be tested and also performs readiness checks of those environments.
- Test Execution – The QA team tests based on the designed test cases and according to the test plans. These activities include the execution of test scripts, their maintenance, and the reporting of bugs
- Test Result Analytics – The results of the previous testing activities are collected so that the QA team can meet, discuss, and analyze the data to improve future executions.
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course at the University of Provar.
How the app is structured
The Salesforce Platform
The Salesforce platform offers several advantages to Provar Manager users,
including:
- Scalability: With Salesforce, you can quickly scale Provar Manager as needed without worrying about expensive hardware upgrades or complicated infrastructure management.
- Customization: Salesforce provides a range of customization options so you can tailor Provar Manager to your business needs.
- Security: Salesforce takes security seriously and has a robust infrastructure with regular updates to protect your data from potential threats.
- Integration: Salesforce can easily connect with other systems and tools, making it an excellent choice for businesses looking to streamline their operations.
- Collaboration: Salesforce’s Chatter makes it easy for teams to work together, regardless of location or time zone.
- Data analytics: With Salesforce, you can quickly analyze large amounts of data and gain valuable insights into your testing operations.
Provar Manager Modules
Provar Manager consists of different modules that teams can use depending on their needs.
Release Management
The Release Management module streamlines the process of planning, scheduling, and tracking the work needed to release software Agilely.
Teams can create projects, epics, and user stories to define the work needed and organize it into releases and sprints to track their progress.
Test Management
The Test Management module is designed to help your teams plan, execute, track, and report on their software testing activities.
Teams can create test projects, write test plans, create test cases, organize them into test suites, execute tests, and document their results for further analysis.
Test Operations
The Test Operations module allows teams to document the environments and systems under test, connect to Version Control Systems, and schedule the execution of automated tests on multiple platforms
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- Provar Automation
- System Requirements
- Browser and Driver Recommendations
- Installing Provar Automation
- Updating Provar Automation
- Licensing Provar
- Granting Org Permissions to Provar Automation
- Optimizing Org and Connection Metadata Processing in Provar
- Using Provar Automation
- API Testing
- Behavior-Driven Development
- Consolidating Multiple Test Execution Reports
- 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
- Japanese Language Support
- Override Auto-Retry for Test Step
- Mapping and Executing the Lightning Article Editor in Provar
- Managing Test Steps
- Namespace Org Testing
- NitroX
- Provar Automation
- Provar Test Builder
- ProvarDX
- 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
- Provar Manager
- How to Use Provar Manager
- Provar Manager Setup
- Provar Manager Integrations
- Release Management
- Test Management
- Test Operations
- Provar Manager and Provar Automation
- Setting Up a Connection to Provar Manager
- Object Mapping Between Automation and Manager
- How to Upload Test Plans, Test Plan Folders, Test Plan Instances, and Test Cases
- Provar Manager Filters
- Uploading Callable Test Cases in Provar Manager
- Uploading Test Steps in Provar Manager
- How to Know if a File in Automation is Linked in Test Manager
- Test Execution Reporting
- Metadata Coverage with Manager
- Provar Grid
- DevOps
- Introduction to Provar 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
- 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
- Version Control
- Masking Provar Credentials on CI
- Salesforce Testing
- Best Practices
- Salesforce Connection Best Practices
- Improve Your Metadata Performance
- Testing Best Practices
- Automation Planning
- Supported Testing Phases
- Provar Naming Standards
- Test Case Design
- Create records via API
- Avoid using static values
- Abort Unused Test Sessions/Runs
- Avoid Metadata performance issues
- Increase auto-retry waits for steps using a global variable
- Create different page objects for different pages
- The Best Ways to Change Callable Test Case Locations
- Working with the .testProject file and .secrets file
- Best practices for the .provarCaches folder
- Best practices for .pageObject files
- Troubleshooting
- How to Use Keytool Command for Importing Certificates
- Browsers
- Configurations and Permissions
- Connections
- DevOps
- Error Messages
- Provar Manager 3.0 Install Error Resolution
- Provar Manager Test Case Upload Resolution
- Administrator has Blocked Access to Client
- JavascriptException: Javascript Error
- macOS Big Sur Upgrade
- Resolving Failed to Create ChromeDriver Error
- Resolving Jenkins License Missing Error
- Resolving Metadata Timeout Errors
- Test Execution Fails – Firefox Not Installed
- Selenium 4 Upgrade
- Licensing, Installation and Firewalls
- Memory
- Test Builder and Test Cases
- Release Notes