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Install on Windows (Self-hosted Installer)
Step-by-step guide to install Shift-Left API on Windows—Installer, Engine, Studio, MongoDB setup, and verification.
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Configuration fundamentals
Where to configure base URL, authentication, and environment variables in Shift-Left API so test runs are stable and CI-ready.
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Initial configuration
Complete first-time setup—core preferences, licensing, users, and your first project—then validate the installation with a test run.
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Platform overview
How Shift-Left API turns API contracts into organized endpoints, tests, executions, and reports across projects.
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Create Your First Project
Create your first project in Shift Left Studio, add project details, and prepare the workspace for API import, test generation, and execution.
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Project Operations: Import API Definitions
Import API definitions into your project using file upload or Swagger/OpenAPI URL, then confirm discovered endpoints before testing.
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Managing Projects: Browse Features and Endpoints
Navigate project dashboards, open features, and select endpoints so you can generate, edit, run, and review API test cases efficiently.
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Project Settings
Configure environment values, authentication, data inputs, and project options so generated tests run reliably across dev, QA, and staging.
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Feature Import, Navigate and Perform Operations
Use the project dashboard to browse imported features and perform manual create, read, update, and delete operations for feature-level organization.
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Import and Discover Endpoints
Import endpoints from OpenAPI/Swagger sources, map them to features, and detect endpoint changes as your API evolves.
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Select, Navigate and Manage Endpoints
From a feature, view endpoint rows by method and path, open endpoint test screens, and perform manual endpoint CRUD operations.
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Validate Endpoints
After selecting an endpoint, confirm method, path, connectivity, authentication, and contract alignment before relying on the definition in broader workflows.
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Generate Endpoint Test Cases
Use Generate Tests on the endpoint test-case screen to automatically create baseline scenarios from your API specification.
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Open, Edit and Save Test Cases
Open generated tests from endpoint view, edit parameters/body/headers/assertions, and save robust test-case definitions.
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Test Configuration
Define environments, variables, headers, and datasets so tests run consistently across dev/stage/prod without hardcoding secrets or setup.
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Execution Mode
Choose where tests run: Shift-Left Engine on server for CI/CD and schedules, or Shift-Left Agent locally for development and private APIs.
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Run Tests and Review Results
Run endpoint test cases from the actions column, monitor progress, and review detailed test-result summaries with assertions and logs.
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Open Execution and Start a New Pack
From the main screen, open Execution and start New Test Run Pack to launch the pack wizard.
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Create an Execution Pack (Wizard)
Create a standard execution pack in five wizard steps: pack details, test selection, execution preferences, notifications, and scheduling.
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Manage and Run Execution Packs
After creating a pack, run it now, edit configuration, monitor status, and manage lifecycle actions from the Execution list.
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Test Reporting
Open Reporting to browse execution history, use Run Type to distinguish Functional and Workflow runs, and open reports from the Execution Summaries list.
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High-Level Test Report
First reporting step for every run: execution metadata, pass/fail summary, and tables that link to deeper reports—layout differs for Functional vs Workflow runs.
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Workflow Execution Details
Second reporting step for Workflow runs only: per-workflow node summary, node table, and View Report to open the detailed report for a node.
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Detailed Test Report
Functional run type: detailed evidence for one API test case—test summary, request/response panels, assertions, and logs.
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Detailed Test Report (Workflow)
Workflow run type only: detailed view for a workflow node with integration summary, node count cards, sequential node executions, and unified execution log.
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Understanding Analytics
Analytics turns execution data into role-aware dashboards and project-scoped metrics—use Dashboards for persona views and Project Analytics for a single project deep dive.
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Analytics Dashboards
Use the Dashboards tab to pick a persona dashboard, set time range and focus project, and review KPIs such as latency percentiles, endpoints, pass rate, and slowest endpoints.
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Project Analytics
Use the Project Analytics tab to select a project, set the time window, and review overview metrics, status breakdowns, execution summary, and expandable trend and failure sections.
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Understanding Mocks
API mocks replace real backend calls during test runs or run as a standalone mock server—organized per project with static or dynamic responses.
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Creating and Configuring Mocks
Open API Mocks, pick a project, then create or generate mocks, start the mock server, and manage the list with search, grouping, columns, and row actions.
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Understanding Workflows
Workflows are integration tests: visual flows of API and logic nodes that model end-to-end journeys, with results surfaced under Reporting as Workflows run type.
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Creating and Running Workflows
Open Workflows, manage the Integration tests list with bulk actions and row tools, then build flows in the Workflow Test editor with Test details, Test library, and Node types.
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Help and Version Information
Open Shift-Left API Platform Help to see version and build information for the application, Engine, Studio, and Agent, plus auto-update status and Check for Updates.
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Administration Settings
How the in-app Settings screen is organized: main tabs and sections map to System Administration documentation so you can jump to the right guide.
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Server Connection
Settings > Configuration > Server Connection: point Studio at the Shift-Left Engine URL, view status, and reconfigure when you change environments.
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Proxy Settings
Settings > Configuration > Proxy Settings: enable proxies separately for Shift-Left Engine and Shift-Left Agent based on execution mode.
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License Management
Settings > Licensing & Users > License Management: status, features, validation details, deactivate or refresh, and update the license key.
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User Management
Settings > Licensing & Users > User Management: search users, review limits, add users, and edit or delete accounts (role and status).
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Role Permissions
Settings > Licensing & Users > Role Permissions: pick a role, then allow or deny grouped capabilities; reset to default or save changes.
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User Policies
Settings > Licensing & Users > User Policies: registration rules, default role, max users per project, and password requirements.
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AI Settings
Settings > Integrations > AI Settings: enable the AI engine, test-generation options, design techniques, and model/API configuration for the whole system.
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Public API
Settings > Integrations > Public API: Swagger and base URL, enable API, rate limits, token expiry, and which roles may use the API.
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Email Settings
Settings > Email > Email Settings: create SMTP/IMAP profiles (+ New profile) so notifications and automation can send mail.
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Email Templates
Settings > Email > Email Templates: summary, detailed, and custom templates; search, category filter, and create notifications for test runs.
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Audit Logs
Settings > System & Monitoring > Audit Logs: summary tiles, rich filters, and a table of who did what, when, on which entity, with status and IP.
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Debug Logging
Settings > System & Monitoring > Debug Logging: master toggle, log level, outputs (file/console/database), context options, and sensitive-field redaction.
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Release notes — February 2026
Documentation navigation improvements, faster Help Center discovery, and minor UI fixes released in February 2026.
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