Owners let you assign team members to tests and suites. When a test fails, owners can be automatically @mentioned in Slack—so the right person is notified immediately.
Assigning Owners
On a Suite
Suite owners apply to all tests in the suite (unless a test has its own owners).
- Go to the Tests page
- Find the suite in the sidebar and click the ⋯ menu
- Select Edit Suite
- Choose owners from the dropdown
- Click Save
On a Test
You can also manage owners from within a test’s settings. This lets you either set custom owners for that specific test, or update the suite’s owners (which applies to all tests in the suite).
- Open a test and click Configure (or use the ⋯ menu → Settings)
- In the Owners section, select team members
- Choose how to save:
- Update just this test — sets custom owners for this test only, overriding the suite
- Update all tests in suite — updates the suite’s owners, affecting all tests that inherit
- Click Save
To restore a test to its suite’s owners, click Revert to suite owners in the test settings.
How Inheritance Works
Tests inherit their owners from their suite by default. This means:
- Changing a suite’s owners automatically updates all tests that inherit from it
- You can override inheritance by choosing Update just this test when setting owners
- You can revert a test back to inheriting at any time
Getting Notified in Slack
When creating a test alert, enable Mention owners to @mention test owners in Slack when failures occur.
- Go to Alerts and create or edit a Test Alert
- Enable the Mention owners option
- When a test fails, owners are @mentioned in the Slack notification
For this to work, owners must have Slack accounts with matching email addresses in your connected workspace.
