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Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Configuration of a change management
When you use any application to create and track defects (bugs), issues, or other work items, you can configure the application as a change management on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can then create defects (bugs), issues, or other work items without the need to open your application.
Configuration of DevOps Plan as a change management
You can use HCL DevOps Plan (Plan) as a change management to create work items after you run tests on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can then view and track the work items in Plan.
Managing the DevOps Plan configuration
You can manage the HCL DevOps Plan (Plan) configuration that you set in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) when you want to edit the configuration or when you want to delete the existing configuration.

Release Notes
This document includes information about the new features introduced, features deprecated or removed, defects fixed, and known issues identified in this version of HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can also find the installation and upgrade instructions along with the contact information of HCL Customer Support.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can find the task flows to get you started with Test Hub. This guide is intended for new users.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) software.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create and edit test assets in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), and then publish test assets to the remote Git repository that you have configured in your project. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Unified Test Asset Guide - Tech Preview
This guide describes how to configure web applications, record and play back Web UI tests, edit test assets, and create and run test suites in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- System modeling
  You can use the system model feature on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create a model that simulates an application or system under test. You can define components to represent the actual components in the system under test, define their relationships and then view the components in a system under test as a diagrammatic representation.
- Prerequisites to running tests
  Before you can run a test asset in a project on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), you must read the information about the different tests assets. You can add a remote static agent, Docker host, or Kubernetes cluster to the project and then select it as an alternate location to run the test assets.
- Management of agents
  You can find information about managing performance agents or API agents that you install on remote computers and then configure the remote agents to register with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). After the agents are registered, you can add them to your projects and then select them as locations to run tests or virtual services.
- Management of Docker hosts
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Docker hosts. After you set up a remote Docker host, you can register the Docker host with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You must then add the registered remote Docker host to your project before you can run tests on the remote Docker host location.
- Management of remote Kubernetes clusters
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Kubernetes clusters. After you set up a remote Kubernetes cluster, you can register the external cluster with a team space on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You must then add the remote cluster to a project before you run test assets or resources on the remote Kubernetes cluster.
- Management of mobile device cloud credentials
  You can find information about managing the credentials that are required to connect to mobile device clouds from HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
- Test run configurations
  You can configure and run tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) after you add the test resources to your project in your team space.
- Configuration of test runs in a GitHub Actions Workflow
  You can configure test runs of test resources that are in a project repository of HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in your server project in the GitHub Workflow when you do not want to run the test resources without opening the Test Hub project.
- Configuration of a scan of an application code
  You can use HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to scan your application code for security vulnerabilities similar to using the HCL® AppScan CodeSweep plugin to scan code in Visual Studio.
- Management of running tests
  Find information about the tasks that you can perform on a test that you configured for a run either while it runs or after it completes the run.
- Management of virtualized services
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on and manage the virtualized services that run on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can start or stop the virtual services that are available to Test Hub. You can view the routing rules and usage statistics of virtualized services, agents, or intercepts that are connected to Test Hub.
- Test results
  After the tests, Suites, or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics. You can also re-execute tests and schedules from the Results page with the same commit id.
- Machine learning capabilities in DevOps Test Hub
  HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) uses Machine learning (ML) algorithms to analyze tests that match certain requirements and criteria, and then presents the findings as insights and recommendations after the tests are run. You can use the insights and recommendations to interpret the test results and identify the problem areas in the system under test.
- Resource monitoring
  When you apply load to a system under test, the amount of resources consumed by your system is increasing. If the capacity of the resources does not match the load, you can see performance issues in the results. Resource monitoring in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) helps you monitoring the resources of a system and establish the performance metrics and usage data of the system. Thus, you can observe the health of these resources while a schedule is running.
- Configuration of a change management
  When you use any application to create and track defects (bugs), issues, or other work items, you can configure the application as a change management on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can then create defects (bugs), issues, or other work items without the need to open your application.
  - Configuration of Atlassian Jira as a change management
    You can use Atlassian Jira as a change management in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create issues in the Jira project for the tests that ran in Test Hub. The links to the Jira issues are displayed on the Results page in Test Hub, and you can then view and track the Jira issues in Jira.
  - Configuration of Azure DevOps as a change management
    You can use Azure DevOps as a change management in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create work items in the Azure DevOps project for the tests that ran in Test Hub. Links to the Azure DevOps work items are displayed on the Results page in Test Hub, and you can then view and track the work items in the Azure DevOps server.
  - Configuration of DevOps Plan as a change management
    You can use HCL DevOps Plan (Plan) as a change management to create work items after you run tests on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can then view and track the work items in Plan.
    - Configuring DevOps Plan as a change management
      You can configure HCL DevOps Plan (Plan) as a change management system in your project to create work items from Test Hub in Plan.
    - Creating work items
      You can create work items in HCL DevOps Plan (Plan) for the tests that ran on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). For example, you might want to create a work item in Plan when the test results differ from the expected results.
    - Viewing details of the work items
      After you create a work item in HCL DevOps Plan (Plan) from HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), you can view and track the details of the work item in Plan.
    - Managing the DevOps Plan configuration
      You can manage the HCL DevOps Plan (Plan) configuration that you set in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) when you want to edit the configuration or when you want to delete the existing configuration.
- Integrations with other applications
  You can integrate certain applications with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
- Managing access to DevOps Test Hub
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
- Working with DevOps Test Hub REST services
  When you want to use the REST APIs of HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) in your test automation scripts, you can view the REST APIs that are exposed by Test Hub. You can also run the APIs from within your project in Test Hub.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
Troubleshooting
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
All Guides (PDF)
You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) as a PDF file.
Security Considerations
This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
Notices
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

Managing the DevOps Plan configuration

You can manage the HCL DevOps Plan (Plan) configuration that you set in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) when you want to edit the configuration or when you want to delete the existing configuration.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Ensured that you are assigned the role of a Project Owner in the project. See Managing access to the server projects.
Ensured that you obtained the access details and authentication details of Plan from the Plan administrator.

Procedure

Log in to Test Hub.

The Projects page of the initial team space is displayed.
Click My projects > project_name to open the project that contains the test assets.

The Overview page of the project is displayed.
Click Manage > Integration in the navigation pane.
The Integration page is displayed.
Click Add Change Management Integration option within the Change Management section.
Perform any of the following actions when you want to edit or delete the Plan configuration:
- To edit the Plan configuration. Go to Step 6.
- To delete the Plan configuration. Go to Step 7.
Perform the following steps to edit the Plan application that is configured:
1. Click Edit icon .
  The Modify DevOps Plan configuration dialog is displayed.
2. Edit the URL or change it to the one that you want to use in the URL field, and then enter the application that you want to use.
3. Click Update.
  
  The Plan configuration is updated and a confirmation message is displayed.
4. Go to Results.
Perform the following steps to delete the existing Plan configuration:
1. Click the Delete icon .
  
  The Delete DevOps Plan configuration dialog is displayed.
2. Click Delete.
  
  The Plan configuration is deleted and a confirmation message is displayed.
3. Go to Results.
Note: The links to the records that you created for the tests that you ran are not deleted from the results panel in Test Hub even after you delete the Plan configuration.

Results

You achieved the following results:

Edited and saved the Plan configuration.
Deleted the Plan configuration.

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