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Zephyr Bots or ZBots are software agents that reside on target automation systems and link the Zephyr Server and the automation tool being used on the target automation system. ZBots help you automate your test cases: when ZBot is running, you can execute Zephyr Vortex jobs that will add automated test cases to the specified folder and create test cycles on the Test Planning page. When a user runs an automated test case on the Test Execution page, the Zephyr Server connects to the target ZBot, sends execution information to it to run one or multiple test scripts, and then retrieves test results to parse and send them to Zephyr:
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You can also schedule to start ZBot automatically.
Create a Vortex job
A job is a task with a number of parameters. You use it to automate your test cases. You can create two types of jobs: Automation and Folder Watcher.
- An Automation job allows you to trigger an execution directly from Zephyr, and once the automation is done, it posts the results to Zephyr.
- A Folder Watcher job waits for results to appear in the specified results folder, and if any report file is generated, it posts the results to Zephyr.
To create a job,:
- Switch to Vortex in the pane on the left, click the Automation or Folder Watcher tab if you want to create an Automation or Folder Watcher job respectively, and then click the plus sign:
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