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Run tests on a schedule

Schedules let Qodex run scenarios automatically. Use them for nightly regression, hourly smoke checks, security sweeps, or recurring validation against a staging or production environment. A schedule stores the run scope, environment, cron expression, timezone, and notification settings. When the schedule fires, Qodex creates a normal test run and records results in the same history as manual runs.

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What a schedule controls

Each schedule defines:
  • Run scope: all active scenarios, a tag-filtered set, or selected scenarios and groups.
  • Environment: the target environment for base URLs, credentials, and variables.
  • Cron expression: when the run should fire.
  • Timezone: how the cron expression should be interpreted.
  • Notifications: who should be notified and when.
Draft scenarios are skipped for broad scheduled runs so unfinished agent drafts do not break nightly checks.

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Create a schedule

Open Schedules, then click Create schedule. Name the schedule, choose the environment, and choose what should run. Scenario groups run as one unit. Sequential groups run members in order and can stop on first failure. Parallel groups run members independently at the same time. See Test groups and folders for the full behavior.

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Choose the cadence

Qodex uses standard five-field cron syntax.
Set the timezone on the schedule so human-readable times stay correct.

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Pause, resume, or run now

Use the schedule’s Active toggle to pause or resume recurring execution. Pausing keeps the schedule definition intact. If you want CI to fire a paused schedule on demand, use the schedule’s webhook URL. The webhook can trigger the same run without enabling the cron schedule or shifting the next scheduled slot.

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Notifications

Schedules can notify on failure, always, or never. Completion payloads include the final result, scenario counts, and a link to the run detail page.

Run tests via webhook

Trigger a schedule or run from an external system.

Run the full suite

Understand the scope used by nightly regressions.

Test groups and folders

Learn how grouped scenarios run on schedules.