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.
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.

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.
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.

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.

You must be a Team Space Owner, Project Owner, or Member with a Tester role to create or edit a test asset or resource.

Before you can create or edit a test asset or resource, you must select the branch in the project repository into which you want to add the created resource or the branch that contains the resource to edit.

After selection of the branch in the project repository, you must create an Edit branch, which is a temporary branch to contain the resources when you either create or edit a resource.

When you create the Edit branch, any member of the project can use your Edit branch while the branch is available. While you provide a name for the Edit branch, you must adhere to the rules of Git branch naming conventions. For more information, refer to the Git documentation. You can also view all the Edit branches from the Branch drop-down list when other members of the project create an Edit branch.

To differentiate the remote branch and Edit branch from the Branch drop-down list, an edit icon and the initials of the member who created the Edit branch are shown for the Edit branch. After you create the Edit branch, you can also view the Edit branch by accessing the remote Git repository from a browser.

If you want to save the created or edited resource to the branch in the project repository, you must publish the changes from the Edit branch to the branch in the project repository. When the project repository is replicated automatically to the remote repository, the created or edited resources are then available in the remote repository in the branch they were published. The Edit branch that you used is automatically deleted after you publish the contents in the Edit branch. The Edit branch automatically disappears from the Branch drop-down list and from the remote Git repository when you perform any of the following actions:

Publish changes to the remote Git repository
Discard the changes made in all test assets

Note: After the Edit branch disappears, the Branch field is set to the previously selected branch name.