How to Navigate the Applause Platform


 

The Applause platform has many features that enable you to manage your test cycles and projects. You can navigate the platform through the left navigation menu and the top navigation bar, which will be explained below.

Left Navigation Menu

Let’s take a look at the left-hand navigation menu items and we will explore the options in more detail in the following courses.

Product Picker

First, you need to select a product from the Product Picker to be able to view test cycles, test cases, issues, testers and other pages that correspond to that product.

Note: If your company does not have any products set up yet, please refer to this course.

The Product Picker will show the selected product at the top if a product has been selected.

Expanding the Product Picker will display the link to the Products page where all your products are displayed, as well as a list of four most recently selected quick-select products if there are any.

Activity

The Activity page provides various details about the selected product like the product overview, a metric such as Quality Score, and build details.

Test Cycles

This shows all the test cycles associated with the currently chosen product.

Issues

This will display a list of all of the issue reports for your chosen product.

Test Case Management

This is a list of all test cases and test suites for the product selected in the Product Picker.

Product Setup

Settings - The product details page. You can view detailed information about it in this course.

Access - Allows you to see a list of all users with access to the product.

Builds - Contains a list of builds belonging to the product.

Testers - contains a list of testers that the platform recommends automatically after they’ve submitted 20 approved issues.

Templates

Here, in the Test Case Templates tab you can view and manage test case templates. Test Case Templates act as blueprints for creating test cases, whose fields are passed down to linked or derived test cases. A Test Case Template allows you to edit multiple test cases with common fields and steps from one place.

Configuration

In this section you can manage the following:

Note: This navigation option and its submenus are dependent on the user role. Certain users might not see all the Configuration submenus, while others won’t see the whole Configuration menu option.

Administration

In this section you can manage the following:

User Management - Once you have established your company’s account, you will need to add your colleagues to the platform and create teams. See the User Management course for more details.

Billing - You can review your contractual entitlements, your billing history and related account details here.

Note: This navigation option and its submenus are dependent on the user role. Certain users might see only some of the Configuration submenus, while others won’t see the whole Configuration menu option.

 

Top Navigation Bar

The top navigation bar is displayed on every page for all user roles. It contains the following options:

Assignments - Clicking on the Assignments button will show an expanded Assignments panel.

The Assignments panel is for quickly identifying all active/locked/draft test cycles with pending work and will show information about test cycles across all the products available to the user.

Here are clarifications for some of the columns:

Active Cycles

Pending Triage

 

Right Side Navigation Icons

Chat - Launches the chat app on a new tab. The Applause platform creates a chat room for each test cycle to facilitate communication between testers, you and your Applause management team.

Profile dropdown - Includes the profile settings, help articles, the contact us form, documents, the sign out option, privacy policy and terms & conditions.