Checks per day (Starter plan)
On the Starter plan you can run 500 checks per day. This page explains what counts, when the count starts again and what CAT does when it runs out.
Who this applies to
What a check is
A check is one test evaluated once in one run. On the Starter plan, a test that ends in Passed or Failed uses one check. A test that ends in Error uses none: while you are still setting up a data source, the errors do not cost you anything.
- You run a project with 40 tests: 35 pass, 3 fail, 2 end in
Error. That run uses 38 checks. - You run the same 40 tests three times in a day: up to 120 checks.
A filter counts too: a run filtered to five tests uses at most five checks.
One count for your account
On the Starter plan the 500 checks are for your account, not for a project or a computer. Every project, CAT Studio and CAT CLI, and every computer you are signed in on share one count.
When the day starts again
At midnight, your time: the time zone of your computer. CAT shows you when the limit resets, for example The limit resets at midnight (in 5 h 12 min).
What happens at the limit
Some checks left. On the Starter plan, a run that needs more checks than you have left runs as many tests as you have checks. The other tests end Inconclusive, each with the message that the Starter plan’s limit of checks per day was reached and the test was not evaluated. Nothing in your project is wrong.
None left. The run does not start. CAT says that you have used all checks of the Starter plan for today and when the limit resets. In CAT Studio the results of your last run stay on screen.
Where you see how many are left
- CAT Studio: on the Starter plan, a counter in the title bar shows the checks left today, and a click shows how many are used and when the limit resets. See CAT Studio interface.
- CAT CLI: on the Starter plan, a run ends with a line such as
Checks today: 380 of 500 used, 120 left. The limit resets at midnight (in 5 h 12 min).See run. catcli checks: on the Starter plan, prints the same line without running anything and without using a check. See checks.
Without a connection to CAT Portal
CAT Portal keeps the Starter plan’s count for your account. When CAT cannot reach the portal, it keeps a count on your computer instead, until the portal is reachable again; CAT says so next to the number (Checks today on this machine, or offline in CAT Studio). That count is for this computer only and is never added to the portal’s.
CAT needs the connection once on every computer: the first time CAT Portal answers your sign-in there, the count on that computer starts. If CAT can reach neither CAT Portal nor its count on your computer, the run does not start, and CAT asks you to connect to the internet and run the tests again.
Running without the limit
The Team plan has no daily limit of checks. See Compare plans.
Related
- Test results: what
Inconclusivemeans. - Run your tests.