DevOps and Automated Testing

Key DevOps enhancements in this release of Pega Platform™ include a new feature to merge application-level test coverage reports, as well as improvements to Pega scenario testing for increased performance. The scenario testing enhancements include the ability to add a wait-step at runtime to reduce testing flakiness, and the new functionality to rerun failed scenario tests automatically.

Adding wait time to a step
DevOps and Application Testing includes the following enhancements:
Extend PegaUnit setup and clean up capabilities using custom fixtures (8.6)
Avoid duplicating application test efforts by merging test coverage reports (8.5)
- Export and import simulation data automatically with Deployment Manager (8.4)
- Improve test cases with new testing features (8.4)
- Monitor branch quality with the new branch quality dashboard (8.4)
- Simulate calls to data pages and connector rule types when unit testing (8.4)
- Troubleshoot pipelines in Deployment Manager with improved diagnostics (8.3)
- Manage test and application changes separately in Deployment Manager by using a separate product rule for test cases (8.3)
- Start a Deployment Manager deployment in a distributed, branch-based environment by using the Merge Branches wizard (8.3)
- Upgrade Deployment Manager without running post-upgrade steps (8.3)
- Track changes for branch merges in Deployment Manager (8.3)
- Unit test more rule types and configure activity status assertions (8.3)
- Update and adapt existing scenario tests to UI changes (8.3)
- Group related tests into test suites (8.3)
- Improve your experience with creating and cleaning test data for automated tests (8.2)
- Improve your application quality by monitoring test coverage metrics (8.2)
- Monitor application quality in real time by using the REST API to fetch quality metrics (8.2)
- Clean up Pega unit test cases that use inactive or deleted rules (8.2)
- Manage your deployments in a dedicated portal (8.2)
- Improve user access to Deployment Manager (8.2)
- Configure notifications in Deployment Manager (8.2)
- Manage your artifacts by using custom repositories (8.2)
- Get test coverage from multiple testing sessions (8.1)
- Use trend charts to visualize application quality and view more metrics (8.1)
- Organize Pega unit tests with nested test suites (8.1)
- Create UI-based tests with automated scenario testing (8.1)
- Quickly access Deployment Manager features with an intuitive interface (8.1)
- Easily configure Deployment Manager pipelines with a simplified setup (8.1)
- Deploy with confidence by enforcing quality metrics (8.1)
- Manage aged application updates in Deployment Manager (8.1)
- Diagnose pipelines and view troubleshooting information (8.1)
- Run Pega unit tests for a suite or an access group (8.1)
- Run Pega unit tests on branches in Deployment Manager (8.1)
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