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    DevOps Deploy (HCL Launch)
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    plugin
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    Compatibility
    HCL Launch version 7.0 or later
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    HCL Software
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    Published Date
    June 29th, 2021
    Last Updated
    May 15th, 2023

    Description

    The HCL OneTest Virtualization plug-in for HCL Launch provides a step to run HCL OneTest virtualization.

    Platform Support
    • This plug-in runs on all operating systems that are supported by the HCL Launch agent (except for z/OS)
    • This plug-in works with HCL OneTest 9.2.1 or later.

    Quick Info

    Product icon
    Product
    DevOps Deploy (HCL Launch)
    Plugin type icon
    Type
    plugin
    Compatibility icon
    Compatibility
    HCL Launch version 7.0 or later
    created by icon
    Created by
    HCL Software
    Website icon
    Website
    Published Date
    June 29th, 2021
    Last Updated
    May 15th, 2023

    DTVirtualization-DD-HCL-5.0.zip

    Uploaded: 18-Dec-2023 11:40

    HOT-Virtualization-LAUNCH-4.0.zip

    Uploaded: 14-Sep-2022 06:43

    HOT-Virtualization-LAUNCH-3.0.zip

    Uploaded: 20-Sep-2021 06:20

    Overview

    Service Virtualization helps you to automate integration testing in complex application environments early in the development lifecycle. You can use this plug-in to create virtual services that model the services that your application depends on. You can virtualize services that are accessed through various technologies, including HTTP, MQ, JMS, JDBC, TCP/IP, CICS-TG, IMS Connect, SAP, and Software AG web methods. For more information, see the API Tester guide.

    To use this plug-in, you must install the HCL OneTest Virtualization Server. To learn more about its installation, see the Installing HCL OneTest Virtualization section of the HCL OneTest API documentation.

    Compatibility

    This plug-in supports HCL OneTest Studio v10.1 or later.

    The steps in this plug-in run on any agents that are supported by both, the HCL Launch and the HCL Quality server ant client, except for agents on z/OS.

    Installation

    No special steps are required for installation. See Installing plug-ins in HCL Launch.

     

    Known limitations

    The Start scenario and Stop scenario steps do not work within a transient environment.

    Steps

    Process steps in HCL OneTest Service Virtualization plug-in

    Create Transient Environment

    Create a transient HCL OneTest API environment.

    Input properties for the Create Transient Environment step
    Name Type Description Required
    Base Environment String The name of the environment to be used as the base of the new environment. Yes
    Description String A description of the new environment. No
    Domain String The name of the domain. Yes
    HCL Quality server URL String The URL of the HCL Quality server. Yes

    Delete Transient Environment

    Delete a transient HCL OneTest API environment.

    Input properties for the Delete Transient Environment step
    Name Type Description Required
    Domain String Domain name Yes
    Environment String The name of the environment to delete. Yes
    HCL Quality server URL String The URL of HCL Quality server. Yes
    User name String The user name that has permission to perform the operation. No

    Start Scenario

    Start a scenario

    Input properties for the Start Scenario step
    Name Type Description Required
    Domain String The name of the domain. Yes
    Environment String The name of the environment. Yes
    Force Boolean Enable to stop any already-running scenario in the environment. No
    HCL Quality server URL String The URL of the HCL Quality server. Yes
    Scenario name String The name of the scenario to start. Yes
    Scenario owner String Filters the scenarios by owner No
    Stop stubs Enumeration:

    • ALL
    • OPERATIONS
    • NONE
    Specify ALL to stop all stubs in the environment; OPERATIONS to stop the stubs for
    the operations in the scenario; defaults to NONE to leave any existing stubs running
    No
    User name String The user name under which to perform the operation to get through environment locks No

    Start Stub

    Start a stub.

    Input properties for the Start Stub step
    Name Type Description Required
    Agent attributes String Comma-separated list of agent attributes identifying the agent to run on No
    Component String Component the stub exists within No
    Domain String Domain name Yes
    Environment String Environment name Yes
    Operation String Operation the stub exists within No
    HCL Quality server URL String URL of HCL Quality server Yes
    Stub name String The name of the stub (virtual service) to start Yes
    User name String The user name under which to perform the operation to get past environment locks No
    Version String The version of the stub (virtual service) to start No

    Stop Scenario

    Stop a scenario.

    Input properties for the Stop Scenario step
    Name Type Description Required
    Domain String Domain name Yes
    Environment String Environment name Yes
    HCL Quality server URL String URL of HCL Quality server Yes
    Scenario name String The name of the scenario (virtual service) to stop Yes
    Scenario owner String Filters the scenarios by owner No
    User name String The user name under which to perform the operation to get past environment locks No

    Stop Stub

    Stop a stub.

    Input properties for the Stop Stub step
    Name Type Description Required
    Component String Component the stub exists within No
    Domain String Domain name Yes
    Environment String Environment name Yes
    Operation String Operation the stub exists within No
    HCL Quality server URL String URL of HCL Quality server Yes
    Stub name String The name of the stub (virtual service) to stop Yes
    User name String The user name under which to perform the operation to get past environment locks No
    Version String The version of the stub (virtual service) to stop No

    Update Transient Environment

    Update an HCL OneTest API transient environment.

    Input properties for the Update Transient Environment step
    Name Type Description Required
    Domain String Domain name Yes
    Environment String Name of the environment to update Yes
    HCL Quality server URL String URL of HCL Quality server Yes
    Tags Property File String Path to the file with the tag values to update in the environment. One of updateProps or tagsPropertyFile must be specified. No
    Update properties String A new line separated list of name=value pairs. One of updateProps or tagsPropertyFile must be specified. No
    User name String The user name under which to perform the operation to get past environment locks No

    Usage

    Use the Service Virtualization plug-in to automate the virtualization of services from HCL Launch.

    Before you begin

    1. Install the HCL Launch server. For assistance, see HCL Launch documentation.
    2. Install the Service Virtualization plug-in on the HCL Launch server. For assistance, see Installing plug-ins.
    3. Install the HCL Launch agent and connect it to the HCL Launch server. For assistance, see HCL Launch documentation.
    4. Install HCL OneTest Virtualization Server on the HCL Launch agent computer and apply a valid license. For assistance, see Installing HCL OneTest Virtualization Server.

    About the task

    As a tester, you might have a large number of services to be virtualized against the latest builds of a software system. Instead of manually virtualizing services against every new build, you can install the latest build on an HCL Launch agent computer and use it to automatically virtualize the services for you.
    After deploying the Service Virtualization plug-in on the HCL Launch server, create a component and its processes, applications and its processes, environments, and resources. For information about how to create and configure these pieces, see HCL Launch documentation.

    Examples

    Example: Virtualizing services in a component process

    This component process creates and updates an environment in HCL Quality server. You can use a similar process as part of an overall scenario that includes virtualized services. This process assumes that the application binary files are in the component. It also assumes that the environment contains an installation of HCL OneTest API. The process runs the following steps in order:

    1. The Create Transient Environment step uses a base environment stored in HCL Quality server to create a transient environment.
    2. The Update Transient Environment step updates the host name tag in the transient environment to correspond to the host where the environment is deployed, which could be in the cloud.
    3. The Start Stub step initiates the virtualized service.
    4. The Stop Stub step shuts down the virtualized service.
    5. The Delete Transient Environment step deletes the transient environment.

    Example: Virtualizing services with HCL OneTest Studio

    The following example describes a scenario that includes a component process that uses virtualized services. In this example, an application in HCL Launch comprises two components. One component is the user interface for a web application running on an application server. The second component is a virtual representation of a web service.

    Before you begin

    You must install HCL OneTest Studio, including HCL Quality server and HCL OneTest API. To learn more about HCL OneTest Studio, see the HCL OneTest Studio documentation.

    About this task

    To virtualize the web service, you can use the Green Hat plug-in to create a transient environment that mimics the behavior of the actual web service. The user interface component is deployed as any other component to a node where the HCL Launch agent is installed, either on a specific host or on the cloud. When the application server is configured on the user interface component, the proxy is installed so that HTTP calls are routed to the HCL Quality server, which then returns the data from the stub.

    Procedure

    1. Use HCL Quality server to record and publish the virtual services that you want to emulate. These virtual services are also known as stubs. When you create the stubs, add environment tags to replace the recorded data with dynamic data, such as the host name. To learn more about stubs, see Stubs in the HCL OneTest API documentation.
    2. In HCL Launch, create an application with two components, one for the user interface component and one for the virtualized service. To learn more about creating applications, see HCL Launch documentation.
    3. Create a component process to install the user interface component. The following steps show an example set of process steps for an application running on Tomcat.
      1. Use the Install Tomcat step in the Tomcat plug-in to install the application server.
      2. Use the Download Artifacts step from a source control plug-in such as the HCL Launch Versioned File Storage plug-in to download the user interface application.
      3. Use the Unzip step in the File Utils plug-in to extract the user interface application.
      4. Use the Modify Tomcat Artifacts step in the Tomcat plug-in to update the WSDL host name that the user interface application uses for calls to web services.
      5. Use the Update Config File step in the Tomcat plug-in to add the proxy information for HCL Quality server to the tomcat6 configuration file. For Tomcat, you change the JAVA_OPTS properties for http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort to point to the host name and port number of the HCL Quality server proxy.
      6. Use the Start Tomcat step in the Tomcat plug-in to start the application server.
      1. Create Transient Environment Use a base environment that you have created in HCL Quality server to create a transient environment. The transient environment is used to start the stub with dynamic property values.
      2. Update Transient Environment Update the environment with properties specific to the deployment environment.
      3. Start Stub Start the virtualized service in the transient environment.
      4. Stop Stub Shut down the virtualized service.
      5. Delete Transient Environment Delete the transient environment.

    Results

    When you run the application process, the user interface component is deployed and then the virtual services component is deployed.