ALM Octane Essentials Training Course

A three-day course covering the fundamentals of HPE Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Octane.

Learn how to leverage this streamlined ALM solution to bring continuous quality to lean, Agile, and DevOps-focused teams.

The course uses lecture, text, and a series of hands-on labs to teach the course material. 

To be successful in this course, you should have working knowledge of Windows, websites and browsers, and understand basic testing concepts.

By the end of this course, delegates will learn how to manage quality information throughout the development cycle, from constructing requirements, designing and executing tests, through to monitoring defects.

You may also be interested in ALM 12.

Who Should Attend?

  • Quality Assurance engineers
  • DevOps team members
  • Project Managers
  • Quality Assurance leads

Exam Details

There is no exam as part of this course.

Objectives

  • Understand how to use Octane to manage your Agile projects
  • Understand how to create graphs and metrics from Octane
  • Understand all the modules within Octane
  • By the end of the course you should have a complete understanding of all the modules within Octane and how it should be used to manage your testing projects from start to finish

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Please note: this course runs on demand so the price is TBC. It can be arranged to run on-site at your offices as Training for Teams or as a public course if there is sufficient interest.

Please contact us for more details.

Course Content and Agenda

This course covers 17 modules over three days as detailed below:

  • Overview of the Octane interface, brief explanation of the modules within Octane, Terminology

  • Creating Users & Teams, User Roles
  • Creating releases
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Creating Sprints & Milestones, Workflow, Lanes customisation
  • Defining Epics & Features
  • Creating User Stories & Quality Stories
  • Ranking the backlog
  • Using the Planning Board

  • Creating Application Modules

  • Assigning Features & User Stories to Teams
  • Assigning User Stories to Individuals
  • Breaking User Stories down into Tasks 
  • Progressing Stories through the board
  • Writing manual tests and Gherkin tests
  • Using test data parameters, marking manual tests for automation
  • Creating Test Sets
  • Assigning tests in test set to individuals
  • Test execution
  • Version Control for Test Cases
  • Planning Test Execution for later dates
  • Raising Defects
  • The Defect Lifecycle
  • Linking Defects to existing entities
  • Ending a Sprint
  • Assigning unfinished items to other Sprints
  • Entering Retrospective information
  • Dashboards & Reporting
  • Creating custom graphs

  • Differences in Octane between SCRUM & Kanban

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