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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integration with other products
You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) extension to run API tests from Test Performance. You can either import the projects from Test Integrations and APIs or manage them from Test Performance by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.

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 Performance (Test Performance). 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 Performance (Test Performance) 2024.03 (11.0.1).
Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). This guide is intended for new users.
Tutorials
This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
Samples
This section describes about the sample project which can be used with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) to test the functionality of an application.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of DevOps Test Performance
  Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance), you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
  - Running tests by using Ant
    When you want to automate repetitive tasks, you can run performance test assets from the command-line interface by using Ant.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
  - Integration with Apache JMeter
    You can use JMeter tests extension with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) to run JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - Configuration of test runs as a GitHub Actions Workflow
    You can configure test runs of test resources that are in HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in the project in the GitHub Workflow when you want to run the test resources without opening the Test Performance.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
  - Integration with HCL DevOps Deploy
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to run performance test assets as a Process from Deploy.
  - Integration with DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
    You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) extension to run API tests from Test Performance. You can either import the projects from Test Integrations and APIs or manage them from Test Performance by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
    - Setting environment variable
      You can set the environment variable INTEGRATION_TESTER_AGENT_HOME and set its value to the directory path where the HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs Agent (Test Integrations and APIs Agent) is installed.
    - Connecting to an existing DevOps Test Integrations and APIs project
      You can connect to an existing project to When you connect both the products any change or delete action made in one product workspace is reflected on the other product workspace, if both the products are installed on your machine.
    - Setting DevOps Test Integrations and APIs preferences
      You can set the path to the execution file in the Preferences to open an HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) project from HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) Test Navigator, you need to have both the products installed on the same computer.
    - Opening DevOps Test Integrations and APIs resources from the Test Navigator
      After the preferences are set, you can open Test Integrations and APIs project.
    - Importing DevOps Test Integrations and APIs project
      you can import an Test Integrations and APIs project in your workspace if both the products are not installed on the same machine.
    - Modifying DevOps Test Integrations and APIs environments in DevOps Test Performance
      You can select Test Integrations and APIs tests and change the environment of each test in the schedule or compound test,The environments are set in Test Integrations and APIs, you can only change the selection from the edited schedule or compound test.
    - Viewing integration test logs
      After you complete a compound test or schedule run, you can view the integration log files for output details, error messages, and any failure information related to the test or schedule.
    - DevOps Test Integrations and APIs performance report
      The Test Integrations and APIsAPI performance report displays statistics of the sequence of the test run and timed sections defined in the tests.
  - Integration with IBM® DevOps Deploy
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with IBM® DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to run performance test assets as a Process from Deploy.
  - Integration of Jaeger with the product
    Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the DTPerf-Jenkins-HCL plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
  - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test scripts in HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you can perform on schedules, test execution with custom code, and Extending HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) to support other protocols. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. This guide is intended for test managers.
Troubleshooting Guide
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
Reference Guide
This guide describes, additional topics to gain more knowledge about HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
All Guides (PDFs)
You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) as a PDF file.
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
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

Integration with DevOps Test Integrations and APIs

You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) extension to run API tests from Test Performance. You can either import the projects from Test Integrations and APIs or manage them from Test Performance by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.

You can either use Test Performance Agent or Test Integrations and APIs Agent to generate the load. You must create a compound test or schedule that contains the Test Integrations and APIs tests.

When you make changes to your API tests within Test Performance and you want to sync the changes on Test Integrations and APIs, you must install Test Integrations and APIs and specify the installation directory path to establish the connection.

You can find the following use cases to work with API tests in Test Performance:

If you install both Test Performance and Test Integrations and APIs you can connect to the API project. Alternatively, you can directly open the API resource from the Test Navigator view, and then work directly with the source files.
If Test Integrations and APIs is not installed and you import the projects in the workspace of Test Performance.

Note: The imported tests must be edited in Test Integrations and APIs. Similarly, the schedules and compounds tests must be edited in Test Performance.

If you are using Test Integrations and APIs 10.2.1 or earlier, you must define the environment variable INTEGRATION_TESTER_AGENT_HOME on each location where the Agent is installed and point to the root installation directory of Test Integrations and APIs Agent See Setting environment variable.

Note: The environment variables INTEGRATION_TESTER_HOME and INTEGRATION_TESTER_AGENT_HOME are automatically created when you install Test Integrations and APIs 10.2.2 or later.