Welcome
Test Author guide
This guide, which is intended for a tester and test manager, describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured.
Datasets overview
A dataset provides tests with variable data during a run. The test that uses a dataset at run time replaces a value in the recorded test with variable test data that is stored in the dataset.

Release Notes
This document includes information about What’s new, installation and upgrade instructions, known issues, and contact information of HCL Customer Support.
System Requirements
Getting started guide
This guide, which is intended for new users, provides an overview and some task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest™ Server.
Administrator guide
This guide, which is intended for an administrator, describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Server software. After you install the software, you can administer the server. Administration tasks can include License configuration, User management, Security, Memory and disk usage management, Backup and restore user data.
Test Author guide
This guide, which is intended for a tester and test manager, describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured.
- Datasets overview
  A dataset provides tests with variable data during a run. The test that uses a dataset at run time replaces a value in the recorded test with variable test data that is stored in the dataset.
  - Creating a dataset
    You can create datasets in HCL OneTest™ Server to replace the existing dataset values with new dataset values during a test or schedule run.
  - Dataset editing
    You can add, modify, or remove data from a dataset by using the CSV Editor. The working principle of the CSV Editor is similar to that of a spreadsheet.
  - Publishing a dataset
    When you create or edit any datasets in HCL OneTest™ Server, you can publish your changes to the Git repository. Therefore, when you publish a dataset, other members in the project can use your dataset in their test assets run, if required.
  - Viewing a dataset
    When test assets includes datasets, you can view the contents of a dataset from HCL OneTest™ Server. The datasets residing in the Git repository are listed in the Datasets page.
  - Deleting a dataset
    You can delete the dataset when it is not required in your test environment.
- Generation of test data
  To test an application, you use data that is passed to get real-time results. Since creating test data manually is time-consuming, you can use HCL OneTest™ Data, an automated tool to generate random test data. You can generate the test data in various file formats.
Test Execution Specialist guide
This guide, which is intended for a tester or a test execution specialist, describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests on HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications.
Test Manager guide
This guide, which is intended for a test manager, explains how to manage and track your overall test effort.
Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
Troubleshooting HCL OneTest™ Server
While working with HCL OneTest™ Server, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
All Guides (PDF)
You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of HCL OneTest™ Server as a PDF file.
Security considerations
For HCL OneTest™ Server, you can take actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
Notices

Datasets overview

A dataset provides tests with variable data during a run. The test that uses a dataset at run time replaces a value in the recorded test with variable test data that is stored in the dataset.

When you record a test, you can perform a sequence of steps. After the recording is complete, a test is generated that captures these interactions. When you run this test, it uses the same data that you used during the recording. To use the different data in the test, you can use a dataset that contains variable data. At run time, this variable data is substituted with the original data in the recorded test.

In HCL OneTest™ Server, you can create a dataset and use it to replace the dataset values with original values during run time, when you want to run test assets that contain the dataset.

From the Datasets page, you can view the dataset listed in the other branches of the repository by selecting the name of the branch from the Branch list. When you access the Datasets page for the first time after adding the repository, the default branch that it displayed is master.

When multiple repositories are added to the same project, the following events occur:

The datasets stored in the master branch of all the repositories are displayed.
All the branches in all the repositories are listed in the drop-down list.

To differentiate a common branch across multiple repositories added to the project, the tooltip is not displayed in front of the common branch name in the list.

Notes:

Only a project Owner or a project member whose role is a Tester can view and edit the dataset.
To view the content of an encrypted dataset, you must provide an encryption key that you set while encrypting the dataset column.
As a Viewer, when you try to access the Datasets page, an error message is displayed because you do not have the permission to view this page.