Server-based stubs
You can find information about the ways in which the stubs are managed in HCL Quality Server V9.2.1 or later.
Earlier to 9.2.1, a stub that was authored and published to the server was shown in the hierarchical view of components and operations and was a one-to-one presentation of the stub definition that came from HCL OneTest™ API. Also, all configuration settings were to be specified as part of the request to start a stub.
In HCL Quality Server V9.2.1 or later, the way in which stubs are worked with has changed. Stubs are now a representation of both their definition and the configuration settings. You must use both when the stub is started and managed by HCL Quality Server. You can now pre-configure the settings that you want to use before you control the execution of the stub.
When you publish a stub definition from HCL OneTest™ API, a server-based stub with a default configuration is created in HCL Quality Server. Pre-existing stub definitions that are present in the server earlier to V9.2.1 are also migrated as new server-based stubs with default configurations. Interactions with pre-existing stub definitions are adapted to the new model in V9.2.1 and are displayed as externally-created instances of running stubs in the Environments Dashboard, where they will remain in this state until they are stopped in HCL Quality Server. For example, you can by using the HCL OneTest™ API command-line client, start a pre-existing stub definition along with its configuration settings, resulting in the creation and starting of an instance of the stub in HCL Quality Server (displayed as an externally-created running stub instance in the Environments Dashboard).
- Stub definitions that are published and become server-based stubs. The running stub is displayed with this icon: .
- Stubs that are created because of being started externally to HCL Quality Server and are displayed with this icon: .