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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.
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.
Unregistering a remote Docker host from DevOps Test Hub
You can unregister a remote Docker host that is registered with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) in a team space when you no longer require it.

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.
  - Test run considerations for running tests on remote Docker hosts
    Before you can configure a test to run on a remote Docker host, you must read the considerations that you must take into account.
  - Setting up a remote Docker host
    You must set up a computer to host the remote Docker host. You can set up the remote host with a non-secure mode of connection with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
  - Setting up a secure remote Docker host
    You must set up a computer to host the remote Docker host. You can set up the remote host with a secure mode of connection with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) by using certificates issued by the remote host computer that authenticate the connection.
  - Copying third-party application Jars to a remote Docker host
    You can run API Suites in a project on HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) on a remote Docker host. If the API Suites use a transport and the transport requires third-party Jar files for a successful run, you must ensure that the third-party application Jar files are available at the test run time. To achieve this, you must copy the third-party application Jar files to the computer where you have set up the remote Docker host.
  - Registering a remote Docker host
    You must register the remote Docker host with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) before you add the remote Docker host to your project in a team space, which contains the test assets that you want to run on the remote Docker host.
  - Viewing remote Docker hosts that are registered with DevOps Test Hub
    You must register the remote Docker host in your team space with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) before you add the remote Docker host to your project in that team space, which contains the test assets that you want to run on the remote Docker host.
  - Adding a remote Docker host
    You can choose to run tests on Docker hosts that you have set up on remote host computers. You must register the Docker host with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) and then add them to your project before you run tests on the remote Docker hosts.
  - Editing configurations
    You can edit the hostname or the port of the registered Docker host computer instead of registering it as a new remote host if any of the parameters are changed on the remote host computer. You can also change the mode of authentication of a registered remote Docker host.
  - Deleting a remote Docker
    You can delete a remote Docker host that you added to your project in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) when you no longer need it to run tests.
  - Unregistering a remote Docker host from DevOps Test Hub
    You can unregister a remote Docker host that is registered with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) in a team space when you no longer require it.
- 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.
- 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 REST APIs of HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) 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.

Unregistering a remote Docker host from DevOps Test Hub

You can unregister a remote Docker host that is registered with HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) in a team space when you no longer require it.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Set up the remote Docker host computer. See Setting up a remote Docker host computer or Setting up a secure remote Docker host computer.
Registered the remote Docker host with Test Hub in a team space. See Registering a remote Docker host.

Procedure

Log in to Test Hub.

The team space that contains your project is displayed.
Click Infrastructure > Agents and Intercepts in the navigation pane.

The Agents and Intercepts page is displayed.

You can view the agents, intercepts, Dockers, or clusters that are registered with Test Hub in your team space.
Identify the Docker host that you want to unregister.

Note: The and icons are displayed in the Actions column in the row of the Docker only if you own the remote Docker host.
Unregister the Docker host by completing the following steps:
1. Click the Unregister docker host icon .
2. Click Unregister in the Unregister docker host dialog box.
A message is displayed that the Docker host is unregistered successfully.

Results

You have unregistered the remote Docker host in a team space on Test Hub. You cannot run tests on this remote Docker host if it is added to your project. You might have to register it again with Test Hub, if you want to use the remote Docker host in your projects.