| name | katalon-release-analyze |
| description | Analyze Katalon True Platform/TestOps release readiness from testing quality data. Use when you need to use Katalon MCP metrics and results to assess whether a release, sprint, iteration, version, test plan, suite, or repository is ready to ship; summarize requirement coverage, execution health, defect risk, test stability, configuration coverage, release blockers, quality gaps, and produce a Ready / Ready with risk / Not ready recommendation. |
Katalon Release Analyze
Use this skill to assess release readiness from Katalon MCP data. The output must be a testing-quality decision, not just a metric dump.
Availability Boundary
State the MCP boundary before promising an assessment:
- Available through Katalon MCP: project/repository discovery, requirements, test cases, test suites, executions/results, quality summaries, defect data, stability data, and configuration coverage when tools are exposed.
- Not directly available: create formal Test Plan entities, inspect live AUT UI, guarantee AI execution completion, or decide product/business readiness beyond test evidence.
- If MCP tools are unavailable, provide only a framework/template and mark release confidence as Low until data is verified.
Read references/capability-boundaries.md when capability scope is unclear.
Required Scope
Resolve or ask for the minimum missing scope:
- Katalon project and repository/Test Project.
- Release identifier, sprint, iteration, version, test suite, suite collection, execution ID, or date range.
- Target environment/configuration matrix when readiness depends on browsers, devices, OS, or deployment environments.
- Quality gate thresholds when the team has defined them.
If the user gives only a release name or issue key, use MCP discovery first. Ask only when multiple equally plausible scopes remain.
MCP Data Collection
Always resolve context before analysis:
- Call
list_projects.
- Call
list_repositories.
- Resolve the repository/Test Project.
- Find the release scope using available requirement, suite, execution, iteration, or result tools.
Collect evidence with the available Katalon MCP tools:
- Requirement and traceability:
find_requirements, read_requirement, fetch_requirement_data.
- Test case quality:
find_test_cases, find_test_cases_by_requirement, fetch_test_case_data.
- Suites and executable scope:
find_test_suites, read_test_suite.
- Executions and results:
read_execution, read_execution_test_results, read_test_result, find_test_results.
- Defect risk:
fetch_defect_data.
- Stability:
fetch_test_stability_data.
- Configuration coverage:
fetch_test_configuration_data.
Use the freshest data available for the requested release. If comparing trend or stability, include the date range used.
Key Metrics
Report the metrics that are available and relevant:
- Requirement coverage: total, covered, uncovered, linked test cases, requirements without passing evidence.
- Test coverage: total tests, automated/manual split, unexecuted, blocked, stale, missing ownership or incomplete cases.
- Execution health: latest executions, pass/fail/blocked/skipped/not-run counts, pass rate, failed P0/P1 tests.
- Defect risk: open critical/high defects, release blockers, reopened defects, failed tests with linked defects, untriaged failures.
- Stability: flaky tests, repeated failures, unstable suites/configurations, recent trend.
- Configuration coverage: environments, browsers, devices, OS, execution profiles, and missing target combinations.
- Data confidence: missing MCP data, stale executions, ambiguous release scope, or incomplete links.
Read references/release-quality-gates.md before making the final readiness decision.
Readiness Decision
Return one of:
Ready: no testing blocker remains; critical requirements have coverage and recent passing evidence; target configurations are sufficiently tested.
Ready with risk: no hard blocker remains, but moderate gaps or accepted risks exist.
Not ready: release-blocking defects, failed/blocked/unrun critical tests, missing critical coverage, stale evidence, or untested required configurations remain.
If thresholds are provided, apply them. If not, use risk-based judgment and state assumptions.
Never mark Ready when:
- Critical/high release-blocking defects remain open.
- P0/P1 tests are failed, blocked, or not run without accepted risk.
- Critical requirements have no tests or no passing evidence.
- Required target configurations are untested.
- MCP data is unavailable or too incomplete to support confidence.
Response Format
Respond with:
Release Readiness: Ready | Ready with risk | Not ready
Confidence: High | Medium | Low
Key Metrics:
- Requirement coverage:
- Test execution:
- Defect risk:
- Stability:
- Configuration coverage:
Blocking Issues:
- ...
Risks / Gaps:
- ...
Recommendation:
- ...
Evidence:
- ...
Evidence should include execution IDs, suite names, requirement keys, defect IDs, or links when returned by the platform.
Follow-Up Actions
Recommend concrete next steps:
- Create or link missing tests for uncovered critical requirements.
- Re-run failed, flaky, or stale suites.
- Resolve or accept specific defects.
- Expand configuration coverage for missing release targets.
- Use
katalon-execute-test when execution is needed.
- Use
katalon-create-test-cases when coverage gaps require new manual cases.
- Use
katalon-upload-report when external automation results must be uploaded before assessment.