Automation V3: Tags and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Tags and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are very powerful features in Provar that can help you apply labels and descriptions to test cases and individual test steps. These are designed to help you identify important information such as the business owner, the functional area of the test case and the name of the person who is responsible for maintaining the case. 

These can help you overcome the challenges associated with managing and organizing a large volume of test cases. 

In general, you will need to first create and define your tags and SLAs and then apply them to your test cases where applicable. 

The following includes instructions for defining test cases using the Tags and SLA feature.

Business Owner tag

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The Business Owner tag is used to define the business owner of test cases.

Step 1: To create a business owner tag, navigate to Settings, click the + icon, and choose Add a Business Owner.

Step 2: Enter the Tag Name and Description and click the Save button. 

Functional Area Tag

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The Functional Area tag is used to define the functional area of what you are testing. For example, you might want to create a Functional Area tag to describe the individual processes or systems that you are testing. 

Step 1: To create a business owner tag, navigate to Settings, click the + icon, and choose Add a Functional Area.

Step 2: Enter the Tag Name and Description, and click the Save button. 

Test Case Maintainer tag

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You can use this to define the name of the person who will be maintaining the test case.

Step 1: To create a business owner tag, navigate to Settings, click the + icon, and choose Add a Test Case Maintainer.

Step 2: Enter the Tag Name and Description, and click the OK button. 

Creating SLAs

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You can use SLAs to define service level agreement parameters for test cases.

Step 1: To create a business owner tag, navigate to Settings, click the + icon, and choose Add a SLA Requirement.

Step 2: Enter the Tag Name and Description. 

Step 5: Enter Expected Duration in (seconds) which will be used to measure test case execution and test step execution.

Step 6: Enter the Maximum Duration in (seconds) which will be used to measure test case execution and test step execution

Step 7: Click the Save button.

Using tags and SLAs in test cases

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You can use tags and SLAs at both the test case level and test step level. 

Step 1: Open test case.

Step 2: Click the + icon in the test case and hover over Add a tag or SLA to select the tag type that you want to add such as SLA Requirement, Business Owner, Functional Area or Test Case Maintainer. 

Above: View of Tags icon within a test case. 

Step 3: Within the Tags / SLA tab, select the tag(s) or SLA(s) that you want to add from the relevant drop-down menus. 

Above: View of the Tags and SLAs window. 

Step 4: You can reorder the selected tag(s) and/or SLA(s) using the up and down arrows. This will determine the order in which these sections appear in your exported report. 

Step 5: Run your test case. 

Step 6: When exporting your test case execution report, you have the option to select Summarize by Functional Area, Summarize by SLA Requirement, Summarize by Test Case Maintainer and/or Summarize by Business Owner. 

You will see your test cases grouped by your tags and SLAs. 

Above: View of the Export Test Run window. 

Above: View of test case report results grouped by tags.

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