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Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs).
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing
A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.

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 Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs). 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 Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) 2024.03 (11.0.1).
Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs).
- Overview of DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
  You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) to create, modify, and run service tests.
- Testing methodology
  By following four basic guidelines, you can incorporate HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) into your testing methodology. These guidelines drive efficient and expedient integration testing, and they can be applied to your testing process and infrastructure requirements.
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing
  A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.
  - DevOps Test Integrations and APIs capabilities
    HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) provides a wide range of features and functionality that give users the ability to test their integration and SOA projects successfully.
  - SOA test strategies
    SOA is more than simple web services that provide interfaces to existing applications. An SOA implementation is likely to involve multiple services and vendors and is considered a complex computing problem. Many companies try implementing automated testing for GUI solutions. Due to the changing nature of GUIs, they find it difficult to achieve ROI. That is not to say that GUI testing cannot be achieved, but it must be done during the project lifecycle by applying automated interface testing. Focusing on programmatic interfaces and services in automated testing offers significant ROI, as the design contracts for these interfaces change less often, changing business processes in a distributed environment is costly. When it comes to SOA, a different approach, skill-set, and mind-set are required for testing.
  - DevOps Test Integrations and APIs user profiles
    Users that can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) to test an SOA fall into multiple categories.
  - SOA and DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
    HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) primary intent is to simplify the process by which the user builds tests (that is, schema-driven message creation, test driven development, and so on).
- Getting started with testing in DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
  You can start using HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) by completing the preliminary tasks such as creating and running a test, creating and running a stub, recording an HTTP proxy, and running a stub in a Docker container.
- DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel overview
  HCL DevOps Test Virtualization (Test Virtualization) stubs that are designed in HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) are published to HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel), which holds them in a repository.
- DevOps Test Integrations and APIs accessibility features
  Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs).
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs). After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
Troubleshooting
While working with HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs), you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
Reference Guide
This guide provides the topics to help the API tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for API testers.
Security Considerations
You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
Notices
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Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing

A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.

HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) is based on the Service Component Architecture (SCA), which provides a programming model for building applications and systems based on an SOA. For more information about SCA, see Service Component Architecture (SCA)

Based on this concept, the three main components that are used in Test Integrations and APIs SOA design are:

Operations are transactions that represent single, logical units of work. The execution of an operation typically causes one or more persistent data records to be read, written, or modified. An Operation has a structured interface for invocation and response.
Services are granular, self-contained groupings of business operations. The focus on services is different from traditional GUI applications as a service is neither a complete application nor a single subsystem. Instead, a service is designed to maximize reuse and must be stateless. Additionally, a service will be able to accommodate multiple invocation patterns (for example, SOAP over HTTP for synchronous implementations or SOAP over JMS for asynchronous implementations).
A Business Process is long-running set of actions or activities that are performed with specific business goals in mind. Business processes typically encompass multiple service invocations.

You can find the following information about the service-oriented architecture testing: