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Automated Suite Cleaning

When automated tests are executed daily on a Squash instance, its number of executions increases rapidly. An automated suite cleaning feature was added to manage this number and delete old automated executions.

This feature has two aspects:

  • At the project configuration level, projects leaders can enter the retention period of their project automated executions;
  • At the system settings level, administrators can start the deletion of automated executions outside the retention perimeter saved by project.

You can set the retention period of automated test suites in days from the Automation block of the project's configuration page. If no retention period is set, the lifespan of automated test suites is considered as infinite. By default, no value is set.

You, as an administrator, can start the deletion of automated suites from the anchor Cleaning Cleaning of the System submenu.

All automated suites and executions with an execution date prior to the retention period configured in each project are deleted.
All automated suites and executions within the retention period entered in their respective projects are kept.

This deletion applies to automated suites started from Squash and automated suites started from a CI/CD pipeline.

Learn more

To learn more about configuring the retention period of automated suites, go to the page Retention period.

To start the deletion, click on the [Delete] button. You can see the number of deleted automated suites and executions in the information pop-up.

Automated suite cleaning

Warning

This can delete a very large number of automated suites and executions.
Squash can be temporarily slowed down by this operation. We recommend that you perform this task when the app is not being used.