Creating a database query

When you have the data that is useful for creating the test assets is stored in a database, you can import the data from the database and create a database Query in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Ensured that you are assigned a role as a Project Owner or Tester in the project. See Managing access to the server projects.
Added at least one database connection. See Adding a database connection
Added the remote Git repository that contains the test resources to the project. See Adding repositories to a server project.
Created an application in your project. See Creating an application.

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 Author > Data.

The Data page and the data navigator panel are displayed.
Select the branch in the project repository from the Branch list.

The assets and resources in the selected branch are displayed in the data navigator panel.
Perform any of the following actions:
- Click Add files and select Database Query on the Test Editor page.
- Click the Action Menu icon and select Database Query.
- Right-click the application in the Data navigator panel, select New > Database Query.
The Edit Branch dialog is displayed.

If the Edit branch dialog is not displayed, then go to step 7.
Select your action to either select an existing Edit branch or create an Edit branch:
- Perform the following steps to select an existing Edit branch:
  1. Select Use an existing edit branch.
  2. Select an Edit branch from the Select branch list if Edit branches already exist for your repository.
    
    Note: A warning message is displayed if the Edit branch, which you selected, is behind the source branch. To update the selected edit branch and maintain synchronization with the source branch, you can select the Update branch option when switching checkbox.
  3. Click Ok.
- Perform the following steps to create the Edit branch:
  1. Select Create new edit branch.
  2. Enter a name for the Edit branch in the Branch Name field.
  3. Click Save.
The Create database query dialog is displayed.
In the Create database query dialog, perform the following tasks:
1. Select the Application for which you want to create a dataset.
2. Select Location from the drop-down list to store the dataset.
3. Type a name for the database query.
4. Click Save.
The database query is created and displayed on the Data page. The database query created is listed under the Database Queries container within the selected application.
Perform the following steps in the Data page to select the table and query the data from the database:
1. Select the database from the Connection list.
2. Select the table in the selected database from the Table list.
  The data from the selected table is displayed.
3. Select the required column of the table from which you want to import the data.
4. Click View to switch between the Visual and Code view.
  
  Note: Note: The default view is Visual view. In the Code view you can type the query to get data from the database.
5. Click the Preview icon to view the queried data from the database in tabular format in the bottom window.
6. Click Save icon to save the queried data from the database.

Results

You have created a database query in your project.

What to do next

Publish the database query to the Git repository so that other members of the project can use the database query. See Publishing all changes in an Edit branch.

You can create a dataset using the database query. See Creating a dataset by using a database query

You can create a Data definition using the database query. See Creating a data definition by importing fields from a database query.