Experimental Features

HCL OneTest™ UI contains a set of pre-releases that enable you to test various experimental features. These experimental features, while still in progress, are introduced early in the release to seek your feedback on its overall functionality and performance. You can play around with these capabilities before they are made available and supported as a general feature in an upcoming release.

Note: Experimental features are not rolled out as part of the general features of HCL OneTest UI and should not be used in a production environment.

To access experimental features, click Window > Preferences > Test > FT Experimental Features.

You can enable the following experimental features in HCL OneTest UI:

Enable New Functional Test Report for Web UI: Select this option to enable the experimental unified report for Web UI test results. After you enable this option, you can right-click a Web UI test result from your Test Navigator pane and select Display Unified Report. This report provides a detailed overview of your Web UI test results and has a new and improved user interface to analyze and filter your test result details.
If you select Enable New Functional Test Report for Web UI, you also enable the experimental log type.
Enable Mixed Content: Select this option to record and play back tests for applications that use both HTTP and HTTPS protocols. When you enable mixed content, the test captures content from both the protocols that are used by the application. If not, the test throws an exception for mixed content. For example, if you enable mixed content and record an HTTPS application that has HTTP web links, the test captures content from both the protocols without throwing an exception.
Enable the image validation feature: Select this option to validate images on test steps in a Web UI test. You can validate and compare images by using the image recognition property in a test step.
If you record and generate a Web UI test by clicking images, you can view the image recognition property under the Properties pane in Mobile and Web UI Data view of the image test step. To identify the step target by using an image, you must complete the following steps:
1. From the Properties of Image view, right-click Image and select Identify step target using property 'image'.
  The image editor is displayed in the User Action Details pane.
2. Perform the following actions from the image editor:
  1. Select Add a new image from clipboard to add new images from the clipboard to compare with the best matching images.
  2. Select Add a new image from file to add a new image from your computer, to compare them with the best matching images.
  3. Select Set recognition threshold to find the best matching images based on recognition threshold and aspect ratio tolerance.
To add verification points to the image validation step, complete the following tasks:
1. From the Properties of Image view, right-click Image and select Create Verification Point for 'Image'.
2. In the User Actions Details pane, add the required verification point.
During the playback, the validation tries to correlate the images by using the recognition threshold and aspect ratio tolerance. You can view the correlation score for the test step in mobile and Web UI reports.

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