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Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create and edit test assets in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), and then publish test assets to the remote Git repository that you have configured in your project. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Prerequisites for working with Datasets and Data definition
You can find information about the tasks that you need to perform before you work with datasets and Data definitions in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
Management of database query
You can find information about creating, editing, duplicating, and deleting the database query in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
Deleting a database query
You can delete a database query when it is no longer required.

Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create and edit test assets in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), and then publish test assets to the remote Git repository that you have configured in your project. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
- Edit branch overview
  When you want to create or modify a test resource in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), you must use an Edit branch. An Edit branch is a temporary branch of the branch in the project repository into which you want to add the created resource or edited resource.
- Data overview
  When you want to create realistic test scenarios that can simulate real-world or practical situations, you can use the data fabrication feature in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to fabricate test data. You can also create or edit datasets that pass variable data to tests at test run time.
- Prerequisites for working with Datasets and Data definition
  You can find information about the tasks that you need to perform before you work with datasets and Data definitions in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
  - Management of classifications
    You can find information about creating, editing, deleting, and granting access to a classification in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
  - Management of database connections
    You can add a database connection to a project and import the data from an external database in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
  - Management of database query
    You can find information about creating, editing, duplicating, and deleting the database query in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
    - Creating a database query
      When you have the data that is useful for creating the test assets is stored in a database, you can import the data from the database and create a database Query in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub).
    - Editing a database query
      You can edit the database query when you want to query different data from the database or if you want to query the data from a different database.
    - Duplicating a database query
      You can create a new database query by using the existing database query, when you want the same database query with a different name or only slight modification required in the existing database query.
    - Deleting a database query
      You can delete a database query when it is no longer required.
    - Publishing changes in an Edit branch
      After you create or modify a database query in a project in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), you can publish all the changes that are in an Edit branch to the branch in the project repository. Then, other members of the project can view and use the test resources. The Edit branch automatically disappears from the Branch list of the Data page and the changes made to the project are merged into the previously selected branch name.
- Working with Datasets on DevOps Test Hub
  You can find information about creating datasets in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub), applying a dataset classification, editing datasets, and managing datasets that are in your project repository.
- Data fabrication
  Test data is the core component of any application testing. It is very time-consuming to create test data manually. You can use the data fabrication feature in HCL DevOps Test Hub (Test Hub) to create realistic datasets for comprehensive testing scenarios. The feature provides data fabrication capabilities that can help you to generate synthetic data quickly and efficiently without the risk of data leaks or privacy issues.

Deleting a database query

You can delete a database query when it is no longer required.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Ensured that you are assigned a role as a Project Owner or Tester in the project. See Managing access to the server projects.
Created at least one database query. See Creating a database query.

About this task

When you want to delete any database query, you must have an Edit branch. You can create the Edit branch during the creation of the database query. All your dataset resides in the Edit branch until you publish or discard the changes.

After you delete the database query, you can either publish your changes to a remote Git repository or you can discard the changes made to the database query. The Edit branch automatically disappears from the Branch list as well as from the remote Git repository and sets the global branch to the previously selected branch in the following conditions:

When you publish changes to the remote Git repository.
When you discard the changes made in the dataset.

Procedure

Log in to Test Hub.

The team space that contains your project is displayed.
Click Active projects > My projects > project_name to open the project that contains the test assets.

The Overview page of the project is displayed.
Click Author > Data.

The Data page and the Data navigator panel are displayed.
Select the branch in the project repository from the Branch list.

The assets and resources in the selected branch are displayed in the Data navigator panel.
Navigate to the logical folder Datasets in the Data navigator and select the database query that you want to delete.

The name of the database query is suffixed with the .dtd.yaml file extension.

The database query is displayed on the Data page.
Click the Delete icon to delete the database query.

Alternatively, navigate to the logical folder Datasets in the Data navigator panel, right click the database query that you want to delete, and then click Delete.

The Delete database query dialog is displayed.
Click Delete to confirm the deletion.
A message is displayed that confirms database query is deleted.

Results

You have deleted a database query in your project.

What to do next

You can publish the database query to the Git repository so that other members of the project can use the database query. See Publishing changes in an Edit branch.