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Expecco ALM Settings

Introduction

Expecco ALM and its variant AIDYMO are separate products which perform requirements and defect tracking, test management, scheduling and automated execution. They also implement automatic project progress tracking by using tests for requirement and defect validation. They can be used as central repository and versioning system for tests.
They are available from eXept Software AG - for more information, please consult the eXept website.

You can ignore this document if you do not have expecco ALM installed on a machine in your network.

The settings dialog allows you to configure the communication with an expecco ALM server. You can use expecco ALM to schedule automatic execution of tests, for storage and archival of test execution results and to keep track of the project progress and quality status.

In addition, it is also used as a central repository for test suites - both for sharing with other users and for revision control and versioning.

ALM Operation Modes and Configurations

The central ALM server can be used for centralized versioning of suites and to automate the execution of tests within a department or company. It can distribute tests among a number of test-execution "slave" machines, which are either configured statically in ALM, or which announce their willingness to run tests dynamically.

Static Setup

For static configurations, ALM knows about hosts which can be used for test execution, and these definitions are held inside ALM. It is then the ALM administrator's or individual project manager's responsibility to define a list of test machines. In this setup, the machines must be reachable by ALM, and ALM will actively contact them for test execution.

This static configuration is best for a test lab, where a predefined number of machines (virtual or real) are reserved for test execution. ALM needs to know the test hosts and needs to be able to connect to them. It is therefore not possible to execute tests on machines which dialin from outside with variable IP addresses (i.e. if ALM is in an off-site host/cloud).

Dynamic Setup

In the alternative dynamic setup, individual machines announce their willingness to execute tests, without a need for prior configuration within ALM. For this, the client actively sets up a connection to ALM, provides authentication and details about its machine architecture, and maintains a webSocket connection to ALM. If required (i.e. if test executions are due) ALM may then use that machine as an execution host.

This dynamic configuration needs to be used if ALM is installed in the cloud or an off-site server host.

Mixed Mode

The above modes can be mixed, and both statically defined hosts and dynamically added hosts can be used for test execution at the same time.

Name in ALM

This is only relevant if you intent to offer your machine as a test execution machine in a dynamic setup. If the test-execution service is later started, this name will be shown in ALM's statistic and overview pages.

Expecco ALM Host

Defines the host name of the machine where the expecco ALM server running.
If in doubt, ask the administrator who is responsible for the expecco ALM installation and maintenance.

Expecco ALM Port

Defines the HTTP port, which is used for the communication. Because the standard HTTP port (80) is both privileged AND often already in use by an Apache HTTP Server, an alternative port number such as 8080, 8081 is often used. For secure connections (SSL), the typical port number is 443.
If in doubt, ask the administrator who is responsible for the expecco ALM installation and maintenance (often, the alternative HTTP port 8080 or 8443 is used).

Expecco ALM User

Your username in the expecco ALM system. This is assigned by the expecco ALM administrator. It is usually NOT your username on the local machine and NOT necessarily the login name on the expecco ALM host (although ALM can be configured to use the same LDAP users if so preferred and configured in ALM).
If in doubt, ask the administrator.

Expecco ALM Password

Your password in the expecco ALM system. Again, this is initially assigned by the expecco ALM administrator and further maintained by yourself in expecco ALM. This is usually NOT the password on the local machine and NOT the password on the expecco ALM host (although ALM can be configured to use the same LDAP passwords if so preferred and configured in ALM).

Remembering Common Setups

To support the use of multiple servers or work under different user names, you can remember a given configuration and give it a unique name for later retrieval via the "Use Configuration" combo box.

Use Configuration

To retrieve a previously remembered configuration.

Check Reachability

Press this button to test your settings. If the configured ALM server can be reached and a valid user/password combination was given, the ALM version info will be shown below.

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