Course Overview
This three-day course about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Octane teaches students how to leverage the streamlined ALM solution to bring continuous quality to lean, agile, and DevOps-focused teams. Students learn how to manage quality information throughout the development cycle, from constructing requirements to designing and executing tests to monitoring defects.
The course uses lectures and a series of hands-on labs to teach the course material. The hands-on labs for this course use version 16.x of the ALM Octane software.
This course is intended for quality assurance engineers, DevOps team members, project managers, and quality assurance leads.
Highlights:
- Overview of ALM Octane
- Create backlogs, releases, and tests in ALM Octane
- Reports to track application development progress and quality
- Integrate Jenkins with ALM Octane
- Working with pipelines in ALM Octane
Prerequisites
To be successful in this course, you should have the following prerequisites or knowledge:
- Basic knowledge of the Agile process
- Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management
- Understand basic testing concepts
Course Objectives
On completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Summarize what ALM Octane is and where it fits in your project lifecycle
- Differentiate ALM Octane from traditional ALM (ALM.NET)
- Describe the various features and functionalities available with ALM Octane
- Describe how ALM Octane helps in Agile methodology by supporting velocity without compromising quality
- Describe how ALM Octane is integrated with many tools, helping to implement DevOps, and providing comprehensive endto-end control of the lifecycle
- Perform administration tasks at a basic level on the ALM Octane platform
Course Content
- Module 1: Course Overview
- Module 2: Introduction to ALM Octane
- Module 3: Project Management Flow
- Module 4: Backlog Management and Release Quality
- Module 5: Planning a Release
- Module 6: Managing the Team Backlog
- Module 7: Testing Flows in ALM Octane
- Module 8: Managing Defects
- Module 9: Agile Development Flow in ALM Octane
- Module 10: My Work Page
- Module 11: DevOps Main Flow
- Module 12: Working with Pipelines
- Module 13: ALM Octane Dashboards
- Module 14: ALM Octane Administration