ALM Octane Fundamentals

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 user
• 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