Issue with CA Service Virtualization plugin in Jenkins impacts sauce on demand and slack notifier

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)

Issue/Introduction

 With DevTest Jekins plugin, we are able to deploy LISA Tests & Virtual service functionalities, and they are working but it impacts the below plugins :

1) Sauce onDemand Plugin
2) Slack Notifier Plugin

Seeing the below errors :

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- ConversionException: com.ca.devtest.jenkins.plugin.buildstep.DefaultBuildStep : com.ca.devtest.jenkins.plugin.buildstep.DefaultBuildStep 
---- Debugging information ---- 
message : com.ca.devtest.jenkins.plugin.buildstep.DefaultBuildStep 
cause-exception : com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CannotResolveClassException 
cause-message : com.ca.devtest.jenkins.plugin.buildstep.DefaultBuildStep 
class : java.util.TreeMap 
required-type : java.util.TreeMap 
converter-type : com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.TreeMapConverter 
path : /project/properties/com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.modeling.impl.jobTemplate.JobPropertyImpl/instance/values/entry/com.ca.devtest.jenkins.plugin.buildstep.DefaultBuildStep-array 
line number : 13 
-------------------------------, MissingFieldException: No field 'entry' found in class 'com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.modeling.impl.jobTemplate.JobPropertyImpl', MissingFieldException: No field 'entry' found in class 'com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.modeling.impl.jobTemplate.JobPropertyImpl', MissingFieldException: No field 'entry' found in class 'com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.modeling.impl.jobTemplate.JobPropertyImpl', MissingFieldException: No field 'entry' found in class 'com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.modeling.impl.jobTemplate.JobPropertyImpl', MissingFieldException: No field 'entry' found in class 'com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.modeling.impl.jobTemplate.JobPropertyImpl' 

Cause

Created job in Jenkins using the Custom cloud-bee template;  it somehow creates job from template but  fails for our build steps. Maybe because we use abstract class "DefaultBuildStep" for all plugin build steps and cloud bee is expecting something else.  

Environment

CA Service virtualization Jenkins plugin version is : 1.0.2.3 
Sauce On-Demand plugin version is 1.177 
Salck Notification plugin version is 2.0.1 

Resolution

We use abstract class "DefaultBuildStep" for all plugin build steps.  When using Custom templates to  create jobs, Cloud bee might be expecting  a different class name. Please work with your cloud-bee team on resolving the class name. 

Workaround: 
Use the Free Style template in cloud bee  instead of the Custom Template.  

You would see the message after the job is completed: 
main build action completed: SUCCESS