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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integration with other products
You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with HCL DevOps Deploy
You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to run performance test assets as a Process from Deploy.
Installing the plugin on HCL DevOps Deploy
You must install the HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) plugin to run performance test assets from Deploy.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance). After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of DevOps Test Performance
  Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance), you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
  - Running tests by using Ant
    When you want to automate repetitive tasks, you can run performance test assets from the command-line interface by using Ant.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
  - Integration with Apache JMeter
    You can use JMeter tests extension with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) to run JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - Configuration of test runs as a GitHub Actions Workflow
    You can configure test runs of test resources that are in HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in the project in the GitHub Workflow when you want to run the test resources without opening the Test Performance.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance).
  - Integration with HCL DevOps Deploy
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to run performance test assets as a Process from Deploy.
    - Installing the plugin on HCL DevOps Deploy
      You must install the HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) plugin to run performance test assets from Deploy.
    - Creating a component in HCL DevOps Deploy
      You must create a component to include artifacts and processes. The artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions. Whereas the processes define the activities that components can perform.
    - Creating a process in HCL DevOps Deploy
      You must create a process for the component to include step properties for the test that you want to run from HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
    - Configuring the process
      You must configure the process that you created for the component to organize the steps in the process, specify the properties of the steps, and connect them.
    - Creating a resource in HCL DevOps Deploy
      You must create a resource to associate agents with components that you created in HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
    - Configuring the resource
      You must configure the resource to add an agent and associate the agent with the component.
    - Creating an application in HCL DevOps Deploy
      You must create an application to fetch all the components together that you want to deploy.
    - Configuring the application
      You must configure the application to associate resources with environments and define processes to run test assets.
    - Running tests from HCL DevOps Deploy
      You can run test assets from HCL® Launch as a Process to test the performance of your application under test.
  - Integration with DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
    You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) extension to run API tests from Test Performance. You can either import the projects from Test Integrations and APIs or manage them from Test Performance by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration with IBM® DevOps Deploy
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with IBM® DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to run performance test assets as a Process from Deploy.
  - Integration of Jaeger with the product
    Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the DTPerf-Jenkins-HCL plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
  - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.

Installing the plugin on HCL DevOps Deploy

You must install the HCL DevOps Test Performance (Test Performance) HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) plugin to run performance test assets from Deploy.

Before you begin

You must be familiar with working with Deploy.
You must have performed the following tasks:
- Installed Deploy. For more information about the installation, refer to the HCL Launch documentation.
- Been granted access to Deploy.
- Downloaded the Test Performance Launch plugin from the HCL® License & Delivery portal.
  
  For more information about specific versions of plugin, see Integration plugin compatibility matrix.

Procedure

Log in to Deploy, if you are not already logged in.
The Deploy dashboard is displayed.
Click Settings.
Click Automation Plugins from the Automation pane.
Click Load Plugin.
Click Choose File to locate and open the compressed Test Performance Launch plugin file.

Remember: You must not extract the Test Performance Launch plugin compressed file contents.
Click Submit.

The installed plugin is displayed on the Automation Plugins tab.

Results

You have installed the Test Performance Deploy plugin on Deploy.

What to do next

You must create a Component in Deploy. See Creating a component in HCL DevOps Deploy.