Table of Contents

QA2QE Self-Paced VLAB Activity Codes ......................................................................................... 2

Steps to register for Self-Paced VLABs........................................................................................... 3
Steps for Registration through Monthly Calendars .......................................................................... 7
VLAB Summary.........................................................................................................................11
Special Instructions for VLABs which can be installed in your Laptop/PC. ..........................................12
Subversion Environment Set-up to complete LC/CC without VLAB ...................................................13
TFS Environment Set-up to complete L2C and CC without VLAB .......................................................24
SOAP UI environment Set-up guide to complete LC/CC without VLAB ...............................................25

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 QA2QE Self-Paced VLAB Activity Codes
Course Code Course Name Skill Mode of VLABs

All Java Tech RSC Skills except for Groovy ,

CTKJE924 Java Virtual Labs EBox Python & Subversion Self-Paced

Subversion tech RSC track ( Not applicable for

CTKJE941 Subversion Virtual Labs EBox Dev ops track) Self-Paced

All .Net Tech RSC Skills except for Groovy ,

CTKNT513 .NET Virtual Labs EBox Python and TFS Self-Paced

Basics of Team Foundation TFS Skill tech RSC track (Not applicable for
CTKNT515 Server Practice Labs EBox DevOps track) Self-Paced

CSEST1206 QE Beginner-SOAP UI VLAB SOAP UI Skill Self-Paced

Automation Java - Selenium , Cucumber

CSEST1205 , FitNesse Virtual Lab For Selenium , Cucumber and FitNesse Skill Self-Paced

CSEST1202 Specflow Virtual Labs E-Box For Specflow Skill Self-Paced

CTKNT526 QA2QE DevOps .NET TRACK - VLAB For all .NET DevOps track related Skills Self-Paced

CTKJE968 QA2QE DevOps Java Track - VLAB For all Java DevOps track related Skills Self-Paced

Through Monthly
CSEST1241 UFT Virtual Labs E-Box For UFT Skill calendar

Through Monthly
CSEST1207 QE Beginner-CA LISA VLAB For CA Lisa Skill calendar

You can find the ‘Accessing practice Labs’ link in the UserNotes section when you search for lab codes in
Cognizant LEARN and select ‘View Details’ from the dropdown. You’ll find the link in ‘Details’ tab.

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Steps to register for Self-Paced VLABs
 Step 1: Login to Cognizant LEARN

 Step 2: Search for self – paced VLAB and register. Let’s take Selenium Self-Paced VLAB for
example.

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 Step 3: Submit your registration

 Step 4: Select a time slot and reserve the lab.

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Please note the hour’s gap required for blocking a VLAB will vary from one VLAB to another. Please
block accordingly.

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After you reserve the lab, you will receive a confirmation mailer from CognizantLearn@Cognizant.com
on the lab being assigned with specific guidelines on how to access the VLAB. Please follow the
guidelines document.

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Steps for Registration through Monthly Calendars
Only UFT (CSEST1241) and CA LISA (CSEST1207) VLABs have to blocked through monthly calendars in
Cognizant LEARN. You can also find the registration links in EBox. These are published month-on-month
and are available on First Come First Serve basis.

Where can you find the registration links in Cognizant LEARN?

You can search for CSEST1241 for UFT Virtual Lab and CSEST1207 for CA LISA Virtual Lab in Cognizant
LEARN and register for the same.

Where can you find the registration links in EBox?

In EBox Homepage, click on the ‘View Virtual Lab Calendar’ icon in the ‘Need Any Help?’ section
and it opens a new page with details of Self-Paced VLABs and the VLABs you can register for through
monthly calendars. Screenshot for your reference below.

Please Note:

 When you enroll, will receive an auto-trigger mailer with remote machine details 4-6 Hours prior
session start time
 You can start using the practice lab as soon as you receive the remote machine details
 The practice lab machines will be available for the complete session day(s) and not only during
the session time

How do I register?
 Step 1: Go to Cognizant LEARN

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 Step 2: Search using UFT VLAB code and Register

 Step 3: Please choose one slot from the listed slots.

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 Step 5: You will receive a mail confirming your registration for the VLAB.

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Step 6: 2-4 Hrs. before the session start time, you will receive an auto-triggered mail from
CognizantLearn@cognizant.com with the IP address of the remote machine.

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VLAB Summary

This document gives you a summarized view of the Skills and VLABs mapped to QA2QE assessments.
It also provides of skills and the corresponding VLABs which need to be blocked for completion of LC/CC.

Yammer link: https://www.yammer.com/cognizant.com/threads/1132612741

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Special Instructions for VLABs which can be installed in
your Laptop/PC.
As mentioned in the mailer, you can block VLABs to complete LC/CCs. Alternatively, only for certain skills
like SOAP UI, Subversion, TFS, you can set up the VLAB environment in your Laptop/PC and complete the
LearnToCode and CodeChallenge problems without depending on the VLABs. You can find detailed
instructions for all three skills below.

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Subversion Environment Set-up to complete LC/CC
without VLAB
Follow the below steps to install Subversion in Windows OS:

Step 1: Download the subversion windows binary installer from

https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/

Step 2: Open the installer and click on Run as shown below:

Step 3: Click on Next to continue the setup as shown in the screenshot.

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Step 4: Click on Next in the Information page as shown below.

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Step 5: Select the Apache version based on the requirement, if we don’t use the Apache this selection
doesn’t have any effect. Click on Next after selecting the Module.

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Step 6: Specify the Destination folder where you want the install the Subversion and click on Next. Here
we have used “C:\Program Files\Subversion\”

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Step 7: Once you are ready to install the software, click on Install

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Step 8: Click on Finish to complete the installation.

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 Installing Eclipse Plugin
Step 1: In Eclipse IDE, select “Help” -> “Install New Software”.

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Step 2: In the “Work with” text box enter the eclipse update site:
http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.8.x/ Select all components and install it

Step 3: Accept the license agreement and click on Finish as shown below:

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Step 4: Once the Installation is complete, there will be prompt to restart the eclipse. Click Ok to restart
the eclipse.

Step 5: To verify whether the installation is successful, Navigate to “Windows” –> “Open Perspective” –>
“Other…”, choose “SVN Repository Exploring“.
The SVN Repository Exploring perspective appears as shown below:

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TFS Environment Set-up to complete L2C and CC
without VLAB
To complete L2C and CC for TFS skill available at https://qa2qe.cognizant.e-box.co.in/course/show/1236
link in E-Box

 You DO NOT need to block VLAB if you

o Already have Visual Studio 2013 Professional edition on your desktop
o Do not have firewall restrictions to the server “ctsc00536676201:8080”. For
Firewall related issues when connecting with server you might have to raise an
individual firewall request to this machine and port given.
 You will be provided with the required Access to TFS server which has the projects also
available. Please check if you are able to access it using details provided in the case
study in the above link else drop a mail to QA2QETransform@cognizant.com DL with
Subject line “TFS Server Access issue”
For any Queries other than need of access, please send a mail to QA2QETransform@cognizant.com DL
with a subject line “Clarification on TFS Learn to code and Code challenge”

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SOAP UI environment Set-up guide to complete
LC/CC without VLAB

To complete the SoapUI Skill, you can block a VLAB. Alternatively, you can install
JDK/JDE, Tomcat server, Jenkins and SOAP UI in your PC/laptop. These are open
source softwares and can be downloaded through internet on your personal laptop or you can
raise a request in oneIT to get these installed in your office laptop/PC. With these
installations you can complete SOAP UI L2C and CC without any dependency on
VLABs. Please find the embedded mail for more details along with installation and setup of
these softwares.

JDK and JRE Installation

Download JDK and JRE older versions from the following link

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/archive-139210.html

Select Java SE 7 from the list.

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JDK and JRE Installation
Download JDK and JRE older versions from the following link
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/archive-139210.html
Select JAVA SE 7 from the list

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Select the files appropriate to the respective Operating systems and download and extract or
install depending on the file downloaded.

Tomcat Installation Guide

Download URL:
https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi

Download the tar/zip corresponding to the respective OS .

 Extract to a folder and set JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME Environment variables.
 Add the bin folder of JDK to PATH environment variable.
 To change the http port of tomcat server. Open the file “config.xml” in the folder
“….\Tomcat 7.0\conf”.
 Edit the port number in the following entry in config.xml.
 <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
o connectionTimeout="20000"

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 o redirectPort="8443" />
 Change the port number since default port of Jenkins also would be 8080.
 Create a tomcat user to open manager-gui. Make the following entry in file “..\Tomcat
7.0\conf\tomcat-users.xml”
o <user username="admin" password="admin123" roles="admin-gui,manager-gui"
/>
 Start tomcat by running startup.bat file from tomcat\bin folder in the command prompt.
 Download the war files from the given links in problem statements and deploy the war
files into webapps folder.

Installing SOAP UI
https://www.soapui.org/downloads/soapui.html

Download the SOAPUI OpenSource for your platform and install.

Jenkins Installation
https://jenkins.io/download/

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Select appropriate installer file respective to the OS.
Download Jenkins MSI installer and install Jenkins.
It gets installed as a windows service.
Open browser and request URL http://localhost:8080
It will open Jenkins type administrator password page.
Enter the administrator password from Jenkins\secrets folder. The file where password needs
to be fetched will be specified in the page itself.
After entering the password, you will be taken to install plugins page. There are two options
either to install default or custom.
Select default installation. Plugins gets installed.
Then a new user has to be created and then you would proceed to the dash board page of
Jenkins where jobs can be created.

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