Welcome
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create and edit test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server, and then publish test assets to the remote Git repository that you have configured in your project. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Data fabrication
Test data is the core component of any application testing. It is very time-consuming to create test data manually. You can use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server to create realistic datasets for comprehensive testing scenarios. The feature provides data fabrication capabilities that can help you to generate synthetic data quickly and efficiently without the risk of data leaks or privacy issues.
Basic generators
You can use the built-in basic generators in Data definitions with or without modifying the default configurations of the generators.

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
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ Server.
Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find the task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest Server. This guide is intended for new users.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install the HCL OneTest™ Server software.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create and edit test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server, and then publish test assets to the remote Git repository that you have configured in your project. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
- Edit branch overview
  When you want to create or modify a test asset or resource in HCL OneTest™ Server, you must use an Edit branch. An Edit branch is a temporary branch of the branch in the project repository into which you want to add the created resource or edited resource.
- Test authoring
  You can use HCL OneTest™ Server to author tests instead of creating the tests by using the desktop products.
- Data overview
  When you want to create realistic test scenarios that can simulate real-world or practical situations, you can use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server to fabricate test data. You can also create or edit datasets that pass variable data to tests at test run time.
- Datasets overview
  A dataset contains variable data that are used by a test at test run time. The variable data is contained in rows for a specific parameter that is contained in columns. You can decide whether you want to use the dataset associated with the test to be used at run time or override that associated dataset with another dataset at run time.
- Data fabrication
  Test data is the core component of any application testing. It is very time-consuming to create test data manually. You can use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server to create realistic datasets for comprehensive testing scenarios. The feature provides data fabrication capabilities that can help you to generate synthetic data quickly and efficiently without the risk of data leaks or privacy issues.
  - Overview of data fabrication
    You can find information about an overview of the data fabrication feature that is available in HCL OneTest™ Server.
  - Creating a Data definition
    You can create a Data definition in HCL OneTest™ Server by using the default settings of the basic generators or by modifying the default settings of the basic generators.
  - Modifying a Data definition
    After you create and publish a Data definition, you can modify the fields or the configuration of the generators in an existing Data definition when you want to change the structure of the test data.
  - Publishing changes in an Edit branch
    After you create or modify a Data definition, a generator, or a generator category in a project in HCL OneTest™ Server, you can publish all the changes that are in an Edit branch to the branch in the project repository. After which, other members in the project can view and use the test resources. The Edit branch automatically disappears from the Branch list of the Data page and the changes made to the project are merged into the previously selected branch name.
  - Viewing a Data definition and its details
    You can view the contents of a Data definition on the Data page in HCL OneTest™ Server.
  - Deleting Data definitions
    You can delete Data definitions to remove them when the data definitions are outdated or no longer relevant to the current project. Additionally, when Data definitions contain errors or inaccuracies that can lead to misleading or incorrect fabricated data, then you might want to remove them. This ensures that the project remains clutter-free, optimizes the performance of HCL OneTest™ Server, and reduces storage requirements.
  - Basic generators
    You can use the built-in basic generators in Data definitions with or without modifying the default configurations of the generators.
    - Parameters of the Address generator
      After you add the Address generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Boolean generator
      After you add the Boolean generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Dataset generator
      After you add the Dataset generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the DateTime generator
      After you add the DateTime generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Enumerator generator
      After you add the Enumerator generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Function generator
      After you add the Function generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Name generator
      After you add the Name generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Number generator
      After you add the Number generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Phone generator
      After you add the Phone generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Regex generator
      After you add the Regex generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the String generator
      After you add the String generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the Text generator
      After you add the Text generator in a field of a Data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
    - Parameters of the UUID generator
      After you add the UUID (Universal Unique Identifier) generator in a field of a data definition, you can customize the existing configurations of the field.
  - Generation of test data
    You can use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server to create realistic datasets for comprehensive testing scenarios. You can generate the test data as the Comma-Separated Values (CSV) files that is saved in your system. You can then use these files to replace any existing datasets in a test during the run time. If a dataset is already associated with a test, you can replace the dataset at runtime with the dataset that is created from the data fabrication feature of HCL OneTest Server. This allows you to integrate the generated test data into your test execution process, and you can ensure that your tests are performed with the secure and realistic data.
  - Management of custom generators
    HCL OneTest™ Server provides flexibility to create, modify, and delete custom generators. You can access and modify custom generators to suit your specific data requirements in the Catalog page.
  - Management of custom categories
    HCL OneTest™ Server provides flexibility to create and delete custom categories in the Catalog page. The Catalog page displays both the basic and custom categories of generators in a project.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
Troubleshooting
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL OneTest™ Server.
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
This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
Notices
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

Basic generators

You can use the built-in basic generators in Data definitions with or without modifying the default configurations of the generators.

The Data fabrication feature of HCL OneTest™ Server contains a collection of built-in data generators available in the Basic category on the Catalog tab of a Data definition.

Basic generators are the built-in generators of the Data fabrication feature of HCL OneTest™ Server that you can use to generate diverse test data. These generators provide commonly used data types and patterns that you can select and configure in a Data definition to generate realistic test data.

The basic generators that you can use in HCL OneTest™ Server are as follows:

Address
Boolean
Dataset
DateTime
Enumerator
Function
Name
Number
Phone
Regex
String
Text
UUID

Every basic generator has unique parameters with default features. When you click a basic generator that is added as a field in the Data definition, the corresponding unique parameters with their default configuration are displayed in a new dialog. The new dialog is named after the generator that you select.

You can change the default configurations of any basic generator only when it is added as a field in a Data definition. You can use the changed configurations for any basic generator in the Data definition by saving the Data definition. The changed configuration is applicable only in the Data definition that contains it and is not available for use from the Catalog tab.

If you want to save the modified generators, you can create them as custom generators and save them in a custom category in the Catalog tab.

You can find details about the parameters in each of the basic generators along with their default configuration and the configurations that you can change or modify. The parameters of the basic generators are as follows: