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Expecco ALM Settings[Bearbeiten]

Introduction[Bearbeiten]

Expecco ALM is a separate product which performs requirements and defect tracking, test management, scheduling and automated execution. Expecco ALM also does automatic project progress tracking by using tests for requirement and defect validation. Expecco ALM is available from eXept Software AG - for more information, please consult the eXept website.

Please 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. The expecco ALM server is responsible for the scheduling and automatic execution of test suites, storage and archiving of execution results and to keep track of the project progress, by associating test results with requirements and defects.

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[Bearbeiten]

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.

For static configurations, ALM knows about hosts which can are to 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 tea 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 dialing from outside with variable IP addresses.

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. If required (i.e. if test executions are due) ALM may then use that machine as an execution host.

Expecco ALM Host[Bearbeiten]

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

Expecco ALM Port[Bearbeiten]

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. If in doubt, ask the administrator who is responsible for the expecco ALM installation and maintenance. (most often, the default 8081 is used).

Expecco ALM User[Bearbeiten]

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. If in doubt, ask the administrator who is responsible for the expecco ALM installation and maintenance.

Expecco ALM Password[Bearbeiten]

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.

Remembering Common Setups[Bearbeiten]

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.



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