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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.
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.
Converting existing function classes with Eclipse
If you have an existing function that is written for HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs), you can use Eclipse to convert the function for use with Test Integrations and APIs 5 or later.

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.
    - The formatDate example for a custom function
      You can learn about creating a custom function by using an example. The example shows how to build a function, called formatDate, that parses a string-based date representation and returns it in an alternative format.
    - Create the plug-ins in Eclipse
      HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) recognizes functions that are packaged as Eclipse plug-ins. You can create a plug-in and register it as a function in Test Integrations and APIs from an Eclipse IDE.
    - Implementing the function class
      If you have a function that is written for HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) 8.5, you can convert it to work in Test Integrations and APIs 8.6 or later.
    - Exposing the function
      You can use your own function with the function extension that consists of a number of attributes that describe the function (for example, name) and the class that implements the function.
    - Configuring the function in DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
      After the function is developed and a plug-in is generated, you should communicate that to Test Integrations and APIs by configuring the function.
    - Creating a function plug-in without Eclipse
      You can use Eclipse IDE to easily create the plug-ins. Alternatively, you can build a function by using the Sun Java™ 6 SDK.
    - Converting existing function classes with Eclipse
      If you have an existing function that is written for HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs), you can use Eclipse to convert the function for use with Test Integrations and APIs 5 or later.
    - Converting existing function classes without Eclipse
      You can convert functions that were written for HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) 4 to work with 5 or later, without Eclipse.
  - 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.
- 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.

Converting existing function classes with Eclipse

If you have an existing function that is written for HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs), you can use Eclipse to convert the function for use with Test Integrations and APIs 5 or later.

About this task

Note: It is unlikely that functions compiled for Test Integrations and APIs 4 work with Test Integrations and APIs 5.

Procedure

Remove the register() method.
Change the visibility of the default constructor to be public. No other visibility (for example, protected) is allowed. Otherwise, an exception is generated when you try to execute the function.
Remove the super(String, String, int, int) call in the default constructor.
This super constructor does not exist anymore, so any calls to it produce an error. This call is replaced by the information that is contained in the extension definition.
Remove the method getSyntax(). This information is now contained in the extension definition.
Create an extension to provide Test Integrations and APIs with details about your function (see Exposing the function).