Release notes for HCL OneTest UI 10.0.0
Description
HCL OneTest UI is an automated testing tool that tests a broad range of applications, such as:
- HTML5-based web applications built on modern frameworks, such as Angular, React and Vue.js in the latest versions of the world’s popular browsers, both on the desktop and mobile devices
- Legacy HTML applications
- Java™ and .Net-based thick client applications
- ERP systems such as SAP
- IIBM® zSeries, IBM iSeries, IBM pSeries, and mainframe applications
- Ajax, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Visual Basic, Siebel, Flex, GEF, and PowerBuilder applications
- Adobe PDF documents
You can also import and work with Selenium tests, and combine tests of various types into compound tests.
To view the list of supported domains, software, and platforms, see the requirements document on the HCL License & Delivery Portal.
Some of the older versions of software supported by HCL OneTest UI are deprecated. To view the list of deprecated software, see http://www.testworkbench-community.com/blogs/technology-currency-updates-for-rational-functional-tester-92.
Integrated Development Environments
HCL OneTest UI is available in two integrated development environments (IDE): Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The Eclipse integration supports both Java and simplified (non-programming) method of scripting while the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET integration supports Microsoft Visual Basic .NET scripting language.
What's new in 10.0.0
Starting from 10.0.0, you must have a standard license to work with the product. Other enhancements of this release are as follows:
- Ability to check the connection between the application and mobile cloud before executing the Web UI tests on the mobile device cloud to ensure that the tests are executed without any interruption. See Running Web UI tests on mobile cloud.
- Ability to ignore the report files in the new and existing RFT and Web UI projects to ensure that the report files are not stored in eGit. See ../../com.ibm.rational.test.lt.common.doc/topics/c_git.html#c_git.
- Support integration with Visual Studio 2015/17/19
- Support for OpenJDK 8 with Open J9 as IBM Java is out of support.
Installing the product
To install HCL OneTest UI 10.0.0, first uninstall any previous installations of HCL OneTest UI. Then, use the Install procedure in IBM Installation Manager to install 10.0.0.
Visual Studio Integration
To use the Visual Studio Integration feature, open Visual Studio that is installed on your machine. On Visual Studio home page, click . This opens a connector window on Visual Studio and you can access HCL OneTest UI environment.
Known limitations and workarounds
- This product includes context sensitive help and a product Welcome, which, in turn, include links to the information center help. These links only work while the correct version of the information center help is open.
Adobe Flex support
- Testing Flex applications are supported only on 32-bit browsers.
- Testing Flex applications are not supported on Mozilla Firefox 17.0 and later or on Google Chrome.
- While taking a data verification point on multiple selected elements of a Flex list control, not all selected values are picked up.
- Insert Test Object does not work for Flex and SparkFormControl.
- It is not possible to play back actions that are recorded on the vertical scroll bar of a SparkList.
- HCL OneTest UI only supports recording Silverlight applications on 32 bit Internet Explorer.
- Recording actions on the drop-down list of a RibbonFilterMenu is not supported.
- This limitation only applies to 64-bit versions of Windows. If you face any errors related to the loading of the package while creating a project in HCL OneTest UI, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Integration, download and install any missing dependencies (for example, msvcp80.dll and msvcr80.dll). Then, create a project.
- When you record the tool bar buttons in Adode Reader 10.0 and 11.0, the action is recorded based on the position of the button, click(atPoint(x,y)).
- When you record on a PDF file that is opened in a Mozilla Firefox browser, you must first record actions in the browser and then begin the recording on the PDF file.
- Playback fails when only the find() API is used to locate objects. As a workaround, click the captured object first and then play back.
- In HCL OneTest UI Microsoft Studio Integration, the PDF crashes during the playback, following a few clicks.
HCL OneTest UI playback displays an unexpected message in the console
After playing back a script in HCL OneTest UI, a message such as the following is displayed in the console: The IBM Class Sharing Adaptor will not work in this configuration. You are not running on a J9 Java VM.. This message is displayed because the version of Eclipse that is used in the IDE is from IBM and has the IBM Java optimizations enabled. To resolve the issue:
- Navigate to the HCL OneTest UI Plugins Shared Folder.
- Back up the com.ibm.cds plugin and delete it.
- Restart HCL OneTest UI.
- To enable Google Chrome for testing, the extension must be installed from the Chrome Web Store.
- An Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) must be installed and enabled for testing Google Chrome.
- Clearcase integration is only supported with a 32-bit installation of HCL OneTest UI.
- For testing 32 bit applications on Linux, HCL OneTest UI must be installed with 32-bit architecture.
- For testing 64 bit applications on Linux, HCL OneTest UI must be installed with 64-bit architecture.
- Mac OS is supported on agent computers only in HCL OneTest UI 9.2.
- With parallel test execution in 9.2.1, mobile devices are sometimes listed twice in the Run Test wizard, once for running the test with Chrome, and once for using the generic browser that is included with HCL OneTest UI. Be sure to select only one or the other. Parallel execution on an individual mobile device is not supported.
- When running mobile Web UI tests with Safari on iOS devices, tests containing JavaScript alerts fail to run. This is an Appium limitation.