- Getting started
- Project management
- Working with Change Impact Analysis
- Create test cases
- Assigning test cases to requirements
- Cloning test cases
- Exporting test cases
- Linking test cases in Studio to Test Manager
- Delete test cases
- Enabling governance at project level
- Disabling governance at project level
- Enabling governance at test-case level
- Disabling governance at test-case level
- Enabling or disabling governance in bulk for test cases
- Enforcing signing order for governed test cases
- Managing approvers for governed test cases
- Managing governed test cases in the In Work state
- Managing governed test cases in the In Review state
- Managing governed objects in the Signed state
- Managing comments for governed test cases
- Viewing governance information for test case logs
- Managing approvers for governed test case logs
- Managing governed test case logs in the In Work state
- Managing governed test case logs in the In Review state
- Managing governed test case logs in the Signed state
- Managing comments for governed test case logs
- Enabling governance at test case log level
- Disabling governance at test case log level
- Viewing and searching test cases
- Running Autonomous Exploration
- Reviewing Autonomous Exploration results
- Project operations and utilities
- Test Manager settings
- Tenant level settings
- General project settings
- Events
- Subscribing to events
- Subscribing to all events
- Unsubscribing from events
- Unsubscribing from all events
- Unsubscribing from the Notifications settings page
- Viewing notifications
- Filtering notifications
- Viewing email notifications
- Enabling email notifications for SMTP servers
- Viewing only unread notifications
- Marking all notifications as read
- Clearing all notifications
- Deleting notifications
- Customer managed keys encryption
- Audit logs
- ALM tool integration
- ALM tool integration
- Test Manager Connect
- Test Manager - Integration Service connector
- Outbound IP ranges for connectors
- Working with SAP Cloud ALM and Test Manager
- Step 1: Integrating SAP Cloud ALM with Test Manager
- Step 2: Creating automated test cases in SAP Cloud ALM
- Step 3: Creating automated test cases in Test Manager
- Step 4: Synchronizing test cases from Test Manager to SAP Cloud ALM
- Step 5: Assigning test automations to test cases
- Step 6: Executing test cases
- SAP test automation best practices
- Troubleshooting the Jira integration
- API integration
- Coding Agents for Testing
- Troubleshooting
Running Autonomous Exploration
Start an Autonomous Exploration run in Test Manager against a requirement, with a time-boxed session, an AI model, an execution target, and optional live streaming.
An Autonomous Exploration run is launched from a requirement and driven by a prompt, a time-box, and a runtime. It is available only in Test Manager delivered through Test Cloud, on Windows machines.
Context
A well-structured prompt for Autonomous Exploration typically includes:
- Mission
- Scope
- Focus areas
- Test ideas
- Risks and questions
- Timebox
Consider referencing classic exploratory-testing tour styles, such as the Landmark Tour, Saboteur Tour, Couch Potato Tour, or Money Tour.
Prerequisites
- Test Manager must be delivered through Test Cloud. Autonomous Exploration is not available in Test Manager delivered through Automation Cloud, Automation Cloud Public Sector, or Automation Cloud Dedicated. See the Test Manager feature availability page.
- A connected runtime of one of the supported types (Testing, App Testing, Production (Unattended), Cloud – VM Testing, or Cloud – VM). Serverless runtime types are not supported.
- The Execute Automated Tests permission in Test Manager, required to trigger an exploration.
- A Windows environment — Autonomous Exploration is not supported on other operating systems.
- The UiPath browser extension must have Allow in Incognito enabled on the machine running the robot, since Autonomous Exploration opens the browser in incognito mode. For setup steps, see Enable access to Incognito mode.
Steps
- Log in to Test Manager.
- Open a requirement.
- Select + Autonomous Exploration. The panel opens on the Instructions tab.
- Attach requirement documents or additional context, if needed.
- Enter the target application URL for the web application to explore. The run uses the default browser configured on the machine (Chromium-based browsers and Firefox are supported). Browser selection is not configurable.
- Optional: Provide a custom prompt from the Prompt Library, used as User Instructions.
- Set a time-box.
- Select an artificial intelligence (AI) model.
- Optional: Enable live streaming.
- Optional: Select the Configure tab and, under Runtime type, select one of Testing, App Testing, Production (Unattended), Cloud – VM Testing, or Cloud – VM. The two serverless runtime types are not available for Autonomous Exploration. A runtime type with no connected runtime appears disabled. A runtime is pre-selected automatically when one is available, and can be overridden.
- Under Robot account, select a robot account. The default value is Any User/Robot account.
- Under Machine template, select Any machine template or a specific machine template. Selecting a specific machine template makes the Host machine field available.
- Under Host machine, select Any connected machine or a specific machine.
- Select Start to begin the exploration.
Start stays disabled if the selected runtime type and machine template don't match, or if no connected runtime exists for the selected runtime type. The execution folder is still resolved automatically to the project's default folder — there's no folder picker on the Configure tab. Configure tab selections aren't persisted between sessions; reopening the panel resets them to the defaults above.
- Once the status changes to Completed, select Show report to view the full results.
Result
Autopilot begins exploring the target application. Findings populate as scenarios complete, and the run can be paused, guided, skipped, resumed, or stopped, as described in Human-in-the-Loop for Autonomous Exploration. After the live phase ends, the report becomes available for review.