How to View and Resolve Detected Changes

This task describes how to view and resolve changes detected in applications using the Change Detection Report screen in ALM.

This task is part of a higher-level task. For details, see How to Run Automated Business Process Tests and Flows.

For detailed information about change detection and resolution, see the HPE Unified Functional Testing User Guide.

1. Prerequisites

   • To resolve changes, a user must belong to a user group that has permissions for the Modify Test and the Modify Component tasks. For more information on configuring user group permission settings, see the HPE Application Lifecycle Management Administrator Guide: Managing User Groups and Permissions. 

   • Make sure Unified Functional Testing version 12.50 or later is installed on the same machine.

2. Open the Change Detection Report screen

   For access details, see Change Detection Report Screen.

3. Update the changed components and steps

   Select the element in the changes tree for which you want to view changes.

   In the Change Detection Report, ALM displays a number of things:

   • Run results for the test or flow, for each component, and for each step in the test.

   • Changes in the application for each component

   • Screenshots of the different versions of the application

   Using the report, you can update your components and steps automatically:

   1. In the component tree, select the component for which you want to resolve changes.

      You can see which components in which you need to resolve changes with an exclamation icon in the Changes column of the components tree.

      Tip: If you want to see only the components needing changes, in the Changes column, click the down arrow and select the Open Changes radio button.

   2. In the right pane, view the details about the needed changes.

   3. If you want to accept the proposed changes, in the lower right corner of the pane, click the Apply Changes button. ALM applies the changes as suggested.

      In addition, the selected component's report row is updated to show that you have resolved the changes.

      If steps in your component require updates due the application change, ALM also updates the Change Detection Report.

   4. In the right pane, select the checkboxes for the steps that require an update.

   5. In the lower right corner of the pane, click Update Steps. ALM automatically updates the steps in your components in the background.

      Note: If you want to apply the changes in the components for the current test only, you should clear the Update changes will affect only current test checkbox. If you do not clear this option, the changes to the components are applied to all tests containing these components.

4. Save the changes

   After you have updated all the necessary components, in the lower right corner of the Change Detection report, click Save.

   Note: After saving changes to a business component, the report becomes read-only for that component.