Plans are an essential part of automated testing in mabl. They define when, where, and how you'd like to run a group of tests using mabl's cloud-based infrastructure. This article explains how to manage mabl plans, including how to…
Organizing tests into plans
If you're looking for best practices on how to organize your tests into a plan, check out this article.
How to create a plan
To create a new plan, take the following steps:
- Click on Plans in the left-hand navigation.
- Click on the + New plan button.
- At a minimum, define the plan name, environment and application, and the tests you want to include in the plan. See the plan settings article for a full list of settings that you can configure for a plan, such as device settings and plan triggers.
- Click on the Save plan button to create the plan.
How to edit a plan
To edit an existing plan, navigate to the plan details page and click on the pencil icon to open the edit plan page.
Editing a plan
Update plan settings as needed, and click on the Save plan button to update the plan.
Editing default mabl-created plans
When you create a new web application, mabl creates two plans to monitor and learn about your application: "Verify home page load and login" and "Check all pages for broken links and errors." Most settings for these default plans cannot be changed.
To learn more, check out one of the following articles:
How to disable tests in a plan
If you want to exclude a specific test from a plan execution, either for troubleshooting purposes or otherwise, you can disable it. To disable a test, set the on/off toggle to "off" on the test details page.
You can still run the test ad hoc, but it would run in any plan runs or deployment events.
How to turn off a plan
To prevent a plan from running on a schedule or getting triggered by deployment events, click on the toggle next to the Run button
When the toggle is set to on, the plan runs according to its configured triggers. When the toggle is off, the plan ignores its plan triggers. Both active and inactive plans can be triggered manually.
For more information on the different ways to run a plan, see the article on triggering plan runs.
How to delete a plan
To delete a plan, navigate to the plan details page and click on the trash icon. If you delete a plan on accident, you can restore it from the activity feed.
Deleting a plan
Note
It is not possible to delete the default mabl-created plans, including "Verify home page load and login" and "Check all pages for broken links and errors." These plans are system-generated when you create a web application and system-deleted when you delete the application.