Creating & Running a plan
Create a test plan, add tests, pick devices and data, set concurrency and a quality gate, run it, and read the run screen.
Eight steps create a plan. One button runs it. The run screen reports progress while it runs.
Platforms
Android · iOS (real-device build required)
You need first
A registered app build, and at least one saved test
Set per plan
Devices · concurrency · dataset · quality gate
Concurrency ceiling
The lower of available devices and lockable pool size
Watch out
Reordering tests changes execution order only — it never edits the test files
Prerequisites
Access to Drizz Cloud
A registered app build — APK, or iOS real-device build, under 500 MB
At least one saved test in the project
A dataset, if any test uses
{{variables}}
Create the plan
Open the Test Plans section in Drizz Cloud and click Create Test Plan.
Enter a name, an optional description, and the project. Name it for what it covers —
Checkout_Regression,Login_Sanity. This name appears in every report and every CI log.Select the provider: emulator, simulator or real device. See Devices.
Select the registered app build. iOS plans require a real-device build; a simulator build is rejected here. Uploads cap at 500 MB.
Select the device configuration: model, OS version and device type. Hold this configuration steady across runs of the same plan.
Select the test cases from your saved tests.
Drag the test cases into execution order. This sets run order only; it does not modify the test files.
Click Save.
Confirm the plan appears in the Test Plans list with a run control. The plan stays editable — adding, removing or reordering tests and changing devices does not discard run history.
Configure the run
Four settings, all stored on the plan rather than in the scripts.
Devices
How many devices the plan can use, and of what kind. If nothing is free, the run waits rather than failing — see Devices
Concurrency
How many tests run at once
Dataset binding
The values every {{variable}} in every test in the plan resolves from
Quality gate
The pass threshold the plan must clear to count as passed
Concurrency ceilings
Two limits apply on top of the number you set.
Devices available to you
6 free devices means 6 tests at once, whatever you set
Lockable pool size
A 4-row pool means at most 4 parallel runs — each run leases a row exclusively
A suite that runs 10-wide needs 10 or more rows in the pool — see Lockable pools.
Dataset binding
Bind a dataset if any test in the plan uses {{variables}}. Every {{variable}} in every test in the plan resolves from it, so the same suite runs against staging and production with no script change.
Bind a dataset to any plan containing variables, even an empty one. A plan with variables and no dataset bound misclassifies SET commands and the run goes wrong quietly.
Quality gate
The threshold the plan must clear to count as passed — for example, pass if 90% or more of tests pass. This is the number a CI job gates on. At 100%, one flaky test blocks every build.
Run the plan
Open the plan.
Click Run.
Confirm the run screen opens and reports allocated devices.
Authenticate against the API — see Authenticate.
Upload the build — see Upload a build.
Trigger the plan — see Trigger a run.
Confirm the trigger response returns a run identifier.
There is no run-status endpoint. CI can start a plan but cannot wait on it or gate a build on the outcome — see CI/CD.
Drizz allocates devices, installs the build, and starts tests up to the concurrency limit. Runs that can't get a device wait in the queue.
Watch the run
Summary
Total tests, passed, failed, errored, and completion status
Thread view
One lane per parallel thread, each with its own identifier, for following a single test through a 10-wide run
Per-test detail
Status, healed-step count, elapsed time, start and finish timestamps, and the device it ran on
Artifacts
Screenshots, step logs and the recording, per test attempt
Run history
The same plan's previous runs
Expand a test to see its step list. Expand a step to see its before and after screenshots and reasoning — see When a step fails.
Edit a plan after it has run
None of these modify authored tests, and none discard run history:
Add or remove test cases.
Reorder test cases.
Change devices, OS versions or the provider.
Swap the dataset.
Point the plan at a new build.
Common mistakes
Set concurrency above your pool size
Extra runs wait on a lease, and the suite takes longer
Set the quality gate to 100%
One flaky test blocks every build
Change the device model between runs of the same plan
Real regressions read as flakiness
Reorder tests to fix a failure
If test B needs test A's state, make it explicit in the script
Run the plan without rebinding the dataset after switching environments
The suite runs green against the wrong backend
Trigger from CI and assume it gates the build
There's no run-status endpoint. CI can start a plan but can't wait on it
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Last updated: 6 August 2026
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