How-to guides

These guides accompany you through the key operations in Test Observer’s workflow, providing practical instructions for common tasks.

Authentication

Before you can submit test results or use the Test Observer dashboard, you need to authenticate. Test Observer supports both interactive login via Ubuntu One SSO for human users, and API key authentication for automated systems and CI/CD pipelines.

• How to Authenticate with Test Observer

Submitting test results

The core workflow in Test Observer involves starting a test execution, submitting results, and marking the execution as complete. This process works the same way regardless of whether you’re testing snaps, debs, charms, or images.

• Submit a test to Test Observer

Managing test results

Once test results are in Test Observer, you can view, triage, and compare them using the dashboard and API.

• Triage Runs