Hooks tab

Owned by Dheeraj Kumar Aggarwal
Last updated: May 27, 2017
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Hooks are useful in integrating third party tools. Few points regarding this functionality:

  1. Any third party tools which provides REST APIs, can be easily integrated with vREST via hooks functionality. 
  2. Hooks receives data from test runs and test cases, which can be sent to third party tools via REST APIs.  

Few examples where hooks can be useful:

  1. Logging bugs in any issue tracking tools (e.g. JIRA) for failed test cases
    1. For more information, please read JIRA Integration via hooks.
  2. Updating execution status of test case in any test case management tools (e.g. TestRail).
  3. Sending test run execution notifications to slack.
    1. For more information, please read Slack Integration via hooks.
  4. and many more ...

The layout of this tab contains 3 sections as shown in the below screenshot:

  1. Hooks tab LHS pane
  2. Hooks tab tool bar
  3. Hooks tab main body

 

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