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This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs).
Overview of DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) to create, modify, and run service tests.

Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs).
- Overview of DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
  You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) to create, modify, and run service tests.
  - Interactive Guides
    The home page contains several interactive guides that walks you, step by step, through some of the common tasks.
  - Task flow: Basic test scenario
    A diagram is provided to show you a basic task flow that can help you get started with some of the features of the tool to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
  - Task flow: Advanced test data scenario
    A diagram is provided to show you an advanced task flow that can help you get started with resources, environments, schemas, and test suites to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
- Testing methodology
  By following four basic guidelines, you can incorporate HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) into your testing methodology. These guidelines drive efficient and expedient integration testing, and they can be applied to your testing process and infrastructure requirements.
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing
  A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.
- Getting started with testing in DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
  You can start using HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) by completing the preliminary tasks such as creating and running a test, creating and running a stub, recording an HTTP proxy, and running a stub in a Docker container.
- DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel overview
  HCL DevOps Test Virtualization (Test Virtualization) stubs that are designed in HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) are published to HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel), which holds them in a repository.
- DevOps Test Integrations and APIs accessibility features
  Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs).

Overview of DevOps Test Integrations and APIs

You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) to create, modify, and run service tests.

These are the components of Test Integrations and APIs:

Test Integrations and APIs
HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel)

Test Integrations and APIs

With Test Integrations and APIs, you get a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. You can build tests by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return. You can also create virtual services to remove test dependencies and enable earlier testing. Virtual services can be deployed by Service Virtualization to provide on-demand virtualized test environments that can support all phases of the test development lifecycle.

Test Virtualization Control Panel

The Test Virtualization Control Panel is a server-based web application that provides a central repository for virtualized services. The server allows you to use virtual services published with Test Integrations and APIs to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in HCL DevOps Test Virtualization (Test Virtualization).

It also contains technology-specific components used by Test Integrations and APIs for recording SOA message conversations, HTTP(S) and JDBC traffic, and for monitoring middleware systems under test with minimal reconfiguration of client applications

You can find the following information that help you get started with Test Integrations and APIs: