Plans

A plan allows you to run one or more test together using the same environments and schedule. Every plan is associated with an application.

When you create a full website test, Autonomous automatically creates a plan for the test and schedules the plan to run daily. When you create a URL list test or custom flow test you need to assign the test a plan.

Creating or Editing a Plan

A plan includes the following components:

  • App name

  • Plan name

  • Plan description (optional)

  • Schedule (optional)

  • Environments

  • Tests

To Create or Edit a Plan

  1. In the Navigation bar, select Plan management > Plans.

  2. To create a new plan, click Create a new plan.

    To modify an existing plan, next to a plan, click > Edit.

  3. Select an application; every plan must be associated with one application.

  4. Enter a name of the plan.

  5. Add a schedule:

    • Doesn't Repeat – Select a date and time for the plan to run on a one-off basis.

    • Daily – Select what time the plan should run each day. If required, click to add an additional time to run.

    • Weekly – Select days of the week and time that the plan should run. If required, click to add an additional time to run on selected days.

    • Monthly – Select the day of the month and time that the plan should run.

  6. Add at least one environment to the plan. All tests in the plan will run on these environments. See Environments.

  7. Click Add/Remove tests and select the tests that should be included in the plan. You can save the plan before you add tests, but until tests have been added, the plan does not do anything.

  8. Click Create or Create and run plan to save your changes.

    Note that changes to a plan are not automatically saved.

Once you have created the plan, you can run the plan and then view the results.

Running a Plan

You can manually run a plan. This runs all the tests in the plan immediately without affecting future scheduled runs.

To Run a Plan

  1. In the Navigation bar, select Plan management > Plans.

  2. Next to a plan, click > Run now.

Once you have run a plan, you can view the results.

Duplicating a Plan

You can create a duplicate copy of a plan. This is useful if you want to use the plan as a basis for a similar plan, for example want the plan to run on more than one schedule, such as twice a week.

To Duplicate a Plan

  1. Next to a plan, click > Duplicate.

  2. Modify the duplicate plan as required and click Create.

Viewing Plan Results

You can open the Results page with a filter to view only tests associated with a plan over the past 30 days. Next to the name of the plan, select > Go to Results. For details about the Results page, see Working with Results.