Modifying an environment

You can edit an existing environment to add new variables, update the values of existing variable, or remove variables that are no longer needed for your testing scenarios.

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.
Created a project in your team space in Test Hub. See Creating a project.

Added the remote Git repository that contains the test resources to the project. See Adding repositories to a server project.

Ensured that your project contains an environment.

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.
Navigate to Author > Test Editor.
The Test Editor page and test navigator panel are displayed.
Double-click the environment that you want to modify in the test navigator panel, and then click Edit.
Alternatively, right-click the environment in the test navigator panel and click Edit.

The Edit branch dialog is displayed.

If the Edit branch dialog is not displayed, then go to step 6.
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.
Perform any of the following steps to modify your variables in the Variables section of the environment editor:
- To add a new variable: Click + Create Variable, then enter the new variable name and value.
- To edit an existing variable: Click inside the Name or Value field of the specific variable and type your updates.
- To delete a variable: Click the Delete icon next to the variable row that you want to remove.
Click the Save icon to save the details.

Results

You have modified the existing environment.