About Custom Testing Tools

About Custom Testing Tools

An implementation of a Custom Test Type enables you to integrate your custom and third-party testing tools so that you can continue to develop and use your current testing solution. You can use ALM to configure the testing tools you are using, view test scripts created, execute the tests across multiple remote hosts, and view test results.

Without any customization, ALM enables integrated use of several test types based on HP testing tools such as QuickTest Professional, and LoadRunner. For example, it enables test types BUSINESS-PROCESS, FLOW, LR-SCENARIO, MANUAL, QUICKTEST_TEST, SYSTEM-TEST, and others. From within ALM, tests of these test types can be planned, managed, and run, the results can be viewed, and the tests can be linked to requirements and defects. For more details on using ALM, refer to the HP ALM User Guide.

This guide explains how to achieve a similar level of integration with other testing tools by defining and implementing ALM test types that use those tools, and registering the test types with ALM. The guide includes an example where the third-party testing tool is represented by a simple batch file. In your real-world application, you may wish to save more information to the ALM project, depending on the degree of integration with ALM you wish to achieve. For instance, you may wish to save the parameters used for each test, details of test results, or planned and actual settings and parameters. To perform these tasks, use the tools provided in the Open Test Architecture API when implementing your custom test type. For details, see the HP ALM Open Test Architecture API Reference.

See also The ALM Open Test Environment


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