Privacy and data

TestPulse builds reports in your browser. It has no TestPulse backend that receives or analyses your project data. Data does travel between the browser and Azure DevOps; your export and notification actions can also take it outside that environment.

Where your data lives

Data	Storage and visibility
Reports and personal history	Azure DevOps Extension Data, per user across the organisation.
Shared reports	Copy of the report in project-level Extension Data when you choose Share to project.
Preferences and settings	Extension Data, at user or project scope depending on the setting; some visual-only choices are stored in the browser.
CSV import journal	In the browser, scoped to the organisation, project and user. Contains the data needed to resume; not project-shared or synchronised between devices.
Repository and Cockpit snapshots	Extension-owned data in Azure DevOps; repository organisation and shared tracking data do not modify test results.
Exploratory sessions	Documents and index in project-level Extension Data; automatic saving during the session.
Explore captures and files	Attachments uploaded to Azure DevOps, then linked to work items through your creation or closure actions.
Report images	Loaded from Azure DevOps and cached in memory; removed from the history snapshot to respect its quota, then read again if needed.
Exports	Files downloaded to your device. They then follow the storage and sharing rules of that device and your recipients.
Notifications	Message sent from the browser to the configured webhook URL when you choose Test or Notify.

Project scope for sessions is not a confidentiality boundary between teams: session documents are shared at project level. The hub’s Tester filter helps you find sessions; it is not an access control. Restricting active-session resumption to its author does not make its content private. Avoid entering information that must not be accessible to project members.

What leaves through exports or notifications

CSV import keeps a local progress journal. Clearing it or changing browsers removes the ability to resume from that journal. A downloaded JSON report remains a file to protect according to its contents; it does not replace the journal and cannot be imported to restore it. This workflow is available from 2.74.0. A PDF, Word document, Excel workbook, HTML or PowerPoint presentation becomes a local file. TestPulse no longer controls its distribution once you share it. For Teams or Slack, a report message contains its title, environment, pass rate, execution rate and bug count. The Test button sends a sample message. The destination is the URL saved in your settings; the content is not sent to a TestPulse server. See Notifications.

Telemetry and external services

TestPulse does not include an analytics backend collecting your reports. Product data access uses Azure DevOps, and notifications you trigger use your webhooks. This describes TestPulse; it does not replace the policies of Azure DevOps, Teams, Slack or your browser.

Azure DevOps Server

Azure DevOps data is read and saved against your server. Notifications remain outbound browser requests: network policy and CORS can prevent them. TestPulse then offers the payload to copy for manual handling. Local exports remain available.

Permissions and scopes

What TestPulse can access.

Action matrix

Reads, saves, creations and modifications.

Getting started

Guided workshops

Concepts

Generate a report

Exports

Quality & decision

Cockpit

Dashboard

Coverage Builder

Test Repository

Reports history

Configuration

On the work item

Exploratory testing

Security

Reference

Changelog

Where your data lives

What leaves through exports or notifications

Telemetry and external services

Azure DevOps Server

Permissions and scopes

Action matrix

​Where your data lives

​What leaves through exports or notifications

​Telemetry and external services

​Azure DevOps Server

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Permissions and scopes

Action matrix

Where your data lives

What leaves through exports or notifications

Telemetry and external services

Azure DevOps Server

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