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Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Configuration of a change management system
When you use any application to create and track defects (bugs), issues, or other work items, you can configure the application as a change management system on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can then create defects (bugs), issues, or other work items without the need to open your application.
Configuration of Azure DevOps as a change management system
You can use Azure DevOps as a change management system in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create work items in the Azure DevOps project for the tests that ran in Test Hub. Links to the Azure DevOps work items are displayed on the Results page in Test Hub, and you can then view and track the work items in the Azure DevOps server.

Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- System modeling
  You can use the system model feature on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create a model that simulates an application or system under test. You can define components to represent the actual components in the system under test, define their relationships and then view the components in a system under test as a diagrammatic representation.
- Prerequisites to running tests
  Before you can run a test asset in a project on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), you must read the information about the different tests assets. You can add a remote static agent, Docker host, or Kubernetes cluster to the project and then select it as an alternate location to run the test assets.
- Management of agents
  You can find information about managing performance agents or API agents that you install on remote computers and then configure the remote agents to register with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). After the agents are registered, you can add them to your projects and then select them as locations to run tests or virtual services.
- Management of Docker hosts
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Docker hosts. After you set up a remote Docker host, you can register the Docker host with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You must then add the registered remote Docker host to your project before you can run tests on the remote Docker host location.
- Management of remote Kubernetes clusters
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Kubernetes clusters. After you set up a remote Kubernetes cluster, you can register the external cluster with a team space on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You must then add the remote cluster to a project before you run test assets or resources on the remote Kubernetes cluster.
- Management of mobile device cloud credentials
  You can find information about managing the credentials that are required to connect to mobile device clouds from HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
- Test run configurations
  You can configure and run tests in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) after you add the test resources to your project in your team space.
- Configuration of test runs in a GitHub Actions Workflow
  You can configure test runs of test resources that are in a project repository of HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in your server project in the GitHub Workflow when you do not want to run the test resources without opening the Test Hub project.
- Configuration of a scan of an application code
  You can use HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to scan your application code for security vulnerabilities similar to using the HCL® AppScan CodeSweep plugin to scan code in Visual Studio.
- Management of running tests
  Find information about the tasks that you can perform on a test that you configured for a run either while it runs or after it completes the run.
- Management of virtualized services
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on and manage the virtualized services that run on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can start or stop the virtual services that are available to Test Hub. You can view the routing rules and usage statistics of virtualized services, agents, or intercepts that are connected to Test Hub.
- Test results
  After the tests, Suites, or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics. You can also re-execute tests and schedules from the Results page with the same commit id.
- Machine learning capabilities in DevOps Test Hub
  HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) uses Machine learning (ML) algorithms to analyze tests that match certain requirements and criteria, and then presents the findings as insights and recommendations after the tests are run. You can use the insights and recommendations to interpret the test results and identify the problem areas in the system under test.
- Resource monitoring
  When you apply load to a system under test, the amount of resources consumed by your system is increasing. If the capacity of the resources does not match the load, you can see performance issues in the results. Resource monitoring in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) helps you monitoring the resources of a system and establish the performance metrics and usage data of the system. Thus, you can observe the health of these resources while a schedule is running.
- Configuration of a change management system
  When you use any application to create and track defects (bugs), issues, or other work items, you can configure the application as a change management system on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can then create defects (bugs), issues, or other work items without the need to open your application.
  - Configuration of Atlassian Jira as a change management system
    You can use Atlassian Jira as a change management system in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create issues in the Jira project for the tests that ran in Test Hub. The links to the Jira issues are displayed on the Results page in Test Hub, and you can then view and track the Jira issues in Jira.
  - Configuration of Azure DevOps as a change management system
    You can use Azure DevOps as a change management system in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create work items in the Azure DevOps project for the tests that ran in Test Hub. Links to the Azure DevOps work items are displayed on the Results page in Test Hub, and you can then view and track the work items in the Azure DevOps server.
    - Configuring Azure DevOps as a change management system
      You must configure Azure DevOps as a change management system in your project in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) before you can create work items in the Azure DevOps project for the tests that ran.
    - Creating Azure DevOps work items
      You can create Azure DevOps work items for the tests that ran in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). The issues are created in the project in Azure DevOps that you configured in Test Hub.
    - Viewing details of the Azure DevOps work items
      After you create a work item in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), you can view and track the details of the Azure DevOps work item in Azure DevOps.
    - Managing the Azure DevOps configuration
      You can edit or modify the Azure DevOps configuration that you added and saved to the Change management system tab on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). If you do not want to use the existing configuration and want to set up a new Change management system configuration, then you can delete the configuration.
  - Configuration of Rational® ClearQuest® or HCL® Compass as a change management system
    You can use Rational® ClearQuest® or HCL® Compass as a change management system to create work items after you run tests on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub). You can then view and track the work items in Rational ClearQuest or HCL Compass.
- Integrations with other applications
  You can integrate certain applications with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
- Managing access to DevOps Test Hub
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
- Working with DevOps Test Hub REST services
  When you want to use the HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) REST APIs in your test automation scripts, you can view the REST APIs that are exposed by Test Hub. You can also run the APIs from within your project in Test Hub.

Configuration of Azure DevOps as a change management system

You can use Azure DevOps as a change management system in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create work items in the Azure DevOps project for the tests that ran in Test Hub. Links to the Azure DevOps work items are displayed on the Results page in Test Hub, and you can then view and track the work items in the Azure DevOps server.

Prerequisites

Before you configure Azure DevOps as a change management system in Test Hub, you must have completed the following tasks:

Ensured that you obtained the access and authentication details to Azure DevOps from the Azure DevOps administrator.
Ensured that you are assigned the role of a Project Owner in the project. See Managing access to the server projects.
Created a project in your team space in Test Hub. See Adding a project.

Supported installations

The following types of Azure DevOps installations are supported that can be configured as a change management system on Test Hub:

On-premise Azure DevOps installations.
On-cloud Azure DevOps installations.

Task flow

You can follow the tasks that are listed in the following table when you want to use Azure DevOps as a change management system in Test Hub. The table also provides you the links to the information about the tasks.


Task	Go to...
Configure Azure DevOps as a change management system.	Configuring Azure DevOps as a change management system
Create Azure DevOps work items for the test asset.	Creating Azure DevOps work items
Track and view the details of the created Azure DevOps work items.	Viewing details of the Azure DevOps work items

You can edit the saved configuration, or you can delete the configuration and create a new configuration. For more information, see Managing the Azure DevOps configuration.