Welcome
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.
Tester Guide - Integrations and API Testing
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. This guide is intended for Integrations and API testers.
Working in non-GUI mode
You can use the tools and executable files that are provided along with the product software. You can use these tools to perform different test actions in a non-GUI mode.
Managing stubs
You can manage stubs by using the command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.

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 Virtualization (Test Virtualization). 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 Test Virtualization.
Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with Test Virtualization.
Administrator Guide
Typically, a user with the administrator role is responsible for certain tasks including installation, configuration, and integration of the product. This guide lists all such topics.
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.
- Tester Guide - Integrations and API Testing
  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. This guide is intended for Integrations and API testers.
  - Integrations and API Testing
    You can use find information about the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, or applications.
  - Extending DevOps Test Integrations and APIs functionality by using custom functions
    You can add more calculations and operations to tests by using the HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) custom function class. Test Integrations and APIs custom function is a Java™ class that extends the com.ghc.ghTester.expressions function.
  - Working in non-GUI mode
    You can use the tools and executable files that are provided along with the product software. You can use these tools to perform different test actions in a non-GUI mode.
    - Command-line interfaces
      HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) command-line client is available in Test Integrations and APIs 8.0.1 or later.
    - Ant tasks
      You can use the supported Ant tasks that is supplied with HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) to create, update, or manage the environment, scenarios, and stubs.
    - REST services
      Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. When used in conjunction with HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel), HTTP methods (such as GET and POST) are mapped to actions on domains, environments, scenarios, stubs and other resource types.
    - Running tests
      Use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) to run tests with command-line and Ant APIs.
    - Managing test results
      Use HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) to manage test results with command-line APIs.
    - Managing domains
      You can create, list, update, and delete domains with the HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) REST API.
    - Managing environments
      Locking a HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) environment prevents other users from changing the state of that environment, for example, starting or stopping stubs.
    - Managing scenarios
      Use HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) to manage scenarios with command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
    - Managing stubs
      You can manage stubs by using the command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
      - Selecting stubs to be published
        You can use various options to select stubs to be published.
      - Selecting a stub to start or stop
        You can use various options to select a stub to start or stop.
      - Publish stubs by using the command line
        You can publish a stub to HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel), Dockerfile and build context, or Kubernetes by using the HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) command line.
      - Start a stub by using the command line
        You can start a stub by using the HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) command line.
      - Stop a stub by using the command line
        You can stop all instances of a stub by using the HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
      - Publish stubs by using an Ant task
        You can publish stubs by using the HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) Ant task, the Dockerfile and build context Ant task or the Kubernetes Ant task.
      - Updating a managed stub by using the command line
        You can update the values of the attributes of a managed stub by using the HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) command line.
      - Start a stub by using an Ant task
        You can start a stub by using the HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) Ant tasks.
      - Stop a stub by using an Ant task
        You can stop a stub by using the HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) Ant tasks.
      - Updating a managed stub by using an Ant task
        You can update the values of the attributes of a managed stub by using the HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) Ant tasks.
      - REST services
        Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. When used in conjunction with HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel), HTTP methods (such as GET and POST) are mapped to actions on domains, environments, scenarios, stubs and other resource types.
- Tester Guide - Service Virtualization
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for API Testers.
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.
Security Considerations for DevOps Test Virtualization
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 product documentation.

Managing stubs

You can manage stubs by using the command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.

Note: Starting from version 10.0.0, you can publish, start, or stop the managed stubs available in the Environments dashboard in HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel) by using the command line. For more information about managed stubs, see Server-based stubs.

You can perform operations on the same managed stub instances from either the GUI or the command line. For example, you can publish a stub instance from the command line, update its configuration from the GUI, and start the stub from the command line. You can perform operations in any other combination that you want.