Labels Overview

Overview

Labels are a way to group Validatar objects. As items in your development environment change, new deployments happen, and test cases must be updated, labels can be used to identify objects that are a part of the same deployment.

When to Use Labels

There are many reasons why you would choose to use labels. The main two being:

1. The ability to identify a version of a set of tests.
   • Let's say you have a sprint release where a large number of changes will be delivered. Creating a label for each sprint will allow you to go back in time to refer to every test, template test, and job involved in that sprint.
   • To distinguish your labels, your label name might include versioning information such as the version number, delivery date, the development ticket number.
2. The ability to move a set of tests from one Validatar environment to another.
   • The simplest example here is if you've finished testing in your Validatar QA environment and you're ready to deploy your code to Production, having a label for that deployment makes it easier to move the QA tests you've completed to your Validatar Production environment to be executed.