Business Process Testing in HP ALM


HP has introduced the business process testing framework in the ALM around 2006. This framework has been introduced by keeping business analysts in mind, so that they can create the scenario as per the logical flow of the application by themselves and instead of dependent on any automation tester to create a full test case for them and then they verify the whole test script functionality.

In this framework the automation testers create the business components with the logical business names.

Then business analyst or functional testers can create the test cases by arranging the business components in the sequence they want. This helps the business analysts to create the different scenario's on the go instead of raising the request and waiting for the automation tester to completed the coding for this test script.

Here user can give different parameters for the same component in different test cases which was not possible when users use same test cases in different scenario's in test lab.

Also user can provide the business component parameter in ALM only by just clicking the hyperlink Input in the test plan tab.

I will provide the flow and some more details on this functionality in my next post.

The only thing which you need to take note here is the business component will only be available in ALM if you have the BPT license with your ALM instance.

So please don't search for Business component tab if you don't have the BPT license.

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