[APM] 8.8.0 Test Plan

[gbamparop]

Test Plan - 8.8.0

Phase 1: Manual Testing (Wednesday 26th April)

• Pick an issue from the curated list
• After testing apply the apm:test-plan-done label. If a problem is found a new issue should be opened, labelled apm:test-plan-regression and moved to "Ready" column.

Test cluster (edge-lite)

• Credentials and URLs

Phase 2: Improving Quality (Thursday 27th April - Friday 5th May)

Primarily we need more e2e (Cypress) tests and API tests.

Important areas & flows

• [APM] Record APM Cypress tests runs on merge #154551
• [APM] Convert unit tests using mockApmEventClient to API tests #152557
• [APM] Add e2e test for kql query in logs component #145882
• [APM] Replace ES Archive with synthtrace #155359
• [APM] Code coverage: Endpoints without API tests #152578
• [APM] API tests for creating alerts  #155690
• [APM] E2E tests for rules & alerts #79284
• [APM] Add API test to ensure that only users with access to APM indices can see APM data #145516
• Failing Version Bump: FTR Configs #23 / APM API tests trial no data fetching service anomalies with a trial license with ml jobs "before all" hook for "checks if alert is active" #155930
• Failing Version Bump: FTR Configs #51 / APM API tests basic no data Agent explorer when data is loaded labels.telemetry_auto_version takes precedence over agent.version for otelAgets #155929
• List of failed tests (These might have already been fixed and can be closed)

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/apm-ui (Team:APM)

[kpatticha]

I think we should also consider this ticket to improve e2e for rules and alert #79284

[sorenlouv]

@kpatticha I've added #79284 to the test plan

[gbamparop]

#155930 and #155929 were skipped yesterday. I've added them in the test plan.