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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.
Web UI test management
You can test your web applications by recording Web UI tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). Test Hub supports industry-standard browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox to record and play back Web UI tests. After the playback, you can evaluate the test results.
Modification of Web UI tests
With Test Editor, you can view and customize a Web UI test that is created in Test Hub.
Disabling test steps
When you want to exclude a step or a set of steps under a container from the test run, you can disable such steps in a Web UI test.

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 Editor overview
  You can use the Test Editor tab to create and manage test assets such as applications, Web UI tests, and test suites in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
- Application management
  When you want to create and manage Web UI tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), you must first create an application within the project.
- Web UI test management
  You can test your web applications by recording Web UI tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). Test Hub supports industry-standard browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox to record and play back Web UI tests. After the playback, you can evaluate the test results.
  - Web UI test creation
    You can create Web UI tests by using the recording option or the empty test option in the HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). Test Hub automatically enables web browsers and provides DevOps Test Runtime or the recording agent to configure the test environment before you start recording tests for web applications.
  - Running a Web UI test
    You can run a Web UI test in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) after you record the test, and to verify that the web application performs as expected.
  - Viewing step-level results in test scripts
    You can view the step-level results of each step after running a Web UI test. You can edit and troubleshoot the step in test scripts.
  - Stopping a test run
    You can stop a test run when issues occur or if you decide to stop the run before completion.
  - Modification of Web UI tests
    With Test Editor, you can view and customize a Web UI test that is created in Test Hub.
    - Editing a Web UI test
      You can edit a Web UI test to add new steps, remove the existing steps, or update the step details.
    - Adding user actions in a test from smartshots
      When you want to add user actions as steps in an existing Web UI test, you can add such steps from smartshots associated with the test. You can select a graphical element in the smartshot and add a user action for that element.
    - Adding test steps from the General catalog
      When you want to add a log statement, verification point, and variable assignment as a step, you can add those steps from the General catalog. You can also add pausing of the test for a specific duration as a test step.
    - Adding UI-related actions and user actions in a test from the UI catalog
      When you want to add UI-related actions and user actions to update a test, you can add those steps from the UI catalog. UI-related actions are actions such as opening a new page and adding a new section in the test. User actions are actions such as click, select, type, and key press for user inputs.
    - Adding conditional logic and redefining the flow in tests from the Flow catalog
      When you want to add conditional logic and redefine the flow to update a test, you can add such steps from the Flow catalog. You can add a test inside the test as a step and abort the test after marking it as failed. Also, you can insert the If, While, and Do-While conditions in the test to make a set of steps run only if a specific condition is met.
    - Test variables
      A test variable is a user-defined, name-value pair that stores and refers to information throughout a test. You can assign the value of a variable to a test element or assign the value of a UI object property to a test variable.
    - Disabling test steps
      When you want to exclude a step or a set of steps under a container from the test run, you can disable such steps in a Web UI test.
    - Adding a timeout value to test steps
      When you want to specify the amount of time that HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) must wait for a test step to be completed, you can add a timeout value to the test step.
  - Deleting a test
    You can delete a test when it is no longer required in your project.
- Test suite management
  A suite is a collection of the tests and other suites. You can combine the multiple tests and suites into a single workflow and organize them into a suite.
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.
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.

Disabling test steps

When you want to exclude a step or a set of steps under a container from the test run, you can disable such steps in a Web UI test.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Ensured that you are assigned a Team Space Owner, Project Owner, or Member with a Tester role to create or edit a test resource.
Read and understood the information in Edit branch overview and Create or select an Edit branch.
Ensured that your project contains a Web UI test in the test navigator panel.

Opened the test in Test Editor. See Editing a Web UI test.

Procedure

Click the button, if it is displayed on the Test Editor page. Otherwise, go to step 3.
The Edit branch dialog is displayed.
Select an existing edit branch or create a new edit branch.
Select a step or a container with multiple steps.
The step details pane is displayed.
Click the Advanced tab.
Select the Disable checkbox.
The selected step or set of steps under the selected container are greyed out.
Click the Save icon to save the modifications.

Results

You have disabled a step or a set of steps.

What to do next

You can clear the Disable checkbox in the Advanced tab to enable the test step.