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Tester Guide
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
Integration Tester Guide (Service Virtualization)
This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.
Modifying message-based stubs
You can use either the Test Editor or the Stub Editor to create, modify, and enhance any legacy or new stubs created by HCL OneTest™ API.
The Logging tab
With the Logging tab, you can define how much information is recorded while your stub is being executed.

Rational® Integration Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ API.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL OneTest™ API.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ API. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Tester Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
  - Integration Tester Reference
    This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
  - Technical Tester Guide
    Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
  - Integration Tester Guide (Service Virtualization)
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.
    - HCL OneTest™ Virtualization overview
      HCL OneTest™ Virtualization is software that is used for creating, maintaining, publishing, and running message-based stubs and database stubs.
    - Task flow: Working with the HCL Quality Server Environments dashboard
      You can use the HCL Quality Server Environments dashboard to perform various tasks such as starting, stopping stubs and scenarios, and modifying stub configurations after you have published stubs to HCL Quality Server. You can also lock the environment that contain the published stubs.
    - Virtualizing HTTP
      You can simulate an HTTP connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
    - Virtualizing HTTPS
      You can simulate an HTTPS connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
    - Virtualizing TCP
      You can simulate a TCP connection with a virtual service, also known as a stub.
    - Virtualizing a REST API without recording or synchronization
      You can virtualize REST APIs by using the Recording Studio, or by synchronizing WADL, Swagger, or RAML documents. When none of these options is available, you can still manually virtualize REST APIs that use path parameters.
    - Creating message-based stubs
      In HCL OneTest™ API, there are several methods that you can use to create a message-based stub.
    - Modifying message-based stubs
      You can use either the Test Editor or the Stub Editor to create, modify, and enhance any legacy or new stubs created by HCL OneTest™ API.
      - The Events tab
        With the Events tab, you can define how the stub will handle internally and/or externally received events.
      - The Behavior tab
        With the Behavior tab, you can add reusable behavioral entities, that is, pre-programmed intelligence, to your stub.
      - The Properties tab
        With the Properties tab, you can set up states for your stub and input parameters that can determine how the stub behaves when it runs.
      - The Performance tab
        With the Performance tab, you can change the performance characteristics of the stub either by adding delays when a stub runs or by disabling performance optimization.
      - The Session tab
        With the Session tab, you can configure the sharing of the tag data store between workers (instances of the stub), so that messages can be processed based on information that was captured from previously processed messages.
      - The Logging tab
        With the Logging tab, you can define how much information is recorded while your stub is being executed.
      - The Documentation tab
      - Adding a timer behavior to a stub
        You can use a timer behavior to set a timer event in a stub. After a set time period, the timer event is triggered, the stub receives the event, which it can then respond to. For example, you might have a stub to manage user sessions and you want to add a timer behavior that automatically logs out a user after 30 seconds of inactivity.
      - Example: Adding a repeating timer behavior to a stub
        In this example, you add a repeating timer event to a stub that starts after zero seconds and then repeats every 10 seconds.
      - Sift-and-pass-through capability
        You can filter the messages that a stub receives, separating traffic from client and server applications that need to use the live system as opposed to a virtual system.
      - Performance profiles
        You can use a performance profile to store response time characteristics for a stub over a period of time.
    - Creating and modifying database stubs
      You can create and modify database stubs in HCL OneTest™ API.
    - Configuring stubs to connect to HCL Quality Server and the HTTP proxy
      A stub running on its own may not be sufficient in some cases, because it might have dependencies on services such as HCL Quality Server or the HTTP proxy. If the stub is running on the public cloud and the services are running in the enterprise, you must configure the stub to connect to these services.
    - Publishing and running stubs
      You can publish stubs that are created in HCL OneTest™ API to HCL Quality Server, Dockerfile and build context, Kubernetes, or Istio, if the stub is based on a supported transport.
    - Viewing results in HCL Quality Server
      You can use HCL Quality Server to display the results of tests that you run in both HCL OneTest™ API and HCL Quality Server.
    - Viewing usage statistics of virtual services in HCL Quality Server
      You can use HCL Quality Server to display the usage statistics of virtual services across HCL OneTest™ Virtualization and HCL OneTest API.
    - Viewing reports in HCL OneTest™ Server
      All the project stakeholders can view test reports for multiple testing products from the Results page on HCL OneTest™ Server. You can access the Results page from a web browser. Therefore, there is no need to install the desktop client.
    - Troubleshooting: HCL OneTest™ Virtualization
      You can use workarounds to common problems that you might encounter when you use HCL OneTest™ Virtualization.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
- Troubleshooting HCL OneTest™ API
  While working with HCL OneTest™ API, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
- HCL OneTest™ API reference
  HCL OneTest™ API is a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. Tests can be built by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for product documentation.

The Logging tab

With the Logging tab, you can define how much information is recorded while your stub is being executed.

Any information recorded will be logged in HCL OneTest™ API project results database and on the Test Factory perspective Console window.

The following table describes the list options on the Logging tab.


List Option	Description
None	No information is logged.
Normal	Standard information is logged.
Debug	Verbose information is logged.

Note: If you observe any delays with the stub response time, set the log level to None. This would avoid any delays due to the time taken to log details to the results database.

Note: The default list option displayed on the Logging tab is determined by the setting of the Stub default log level list on the Console page of the Preferences dialog box, which is opened by clicking Project > Preferences or Window > Preferences on the menu bar. Therefore, selecting (for the currently selected stub) a different log level on the Logging tab will overwrite the default log level specified in the Preferences dialog box but only for that stub.