Welcome
Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). You can find the task flows to get you started with Test UI. This guide is intended for new users.
Getting started in the Functional Test perspective
To get started in functional testing, familiarize yourself with some basic concepts and use cases. You can consider several approaches before you start creating the functional test scripts to effectively automate test cases.
The Functional Test perspective
The Functional Test perspective has components that are displayed automatically when you start HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI): the product menu, toolbar, Projects view, Script (simplified) editor, Java™ editor, Script Explorer, Console view, Tasks view, Application view, Keyword view, Properties view, and the status bar.

Release Notes
This document includes information about the new features introduced, features deprecated or removed, defects fixed, and known issues identified in this version of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). You can also find the installation and upgrade instructions along with the contact information of HCL Customer Support.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) 2024.03 (11.0.1).
Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). You can find the task flows to get you started with Test UI. This guide is intended for new users.
- DevOps Test UI overview
  HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests a wide range of desktop, Web, and mobile applications. Test UI provides automated testing capabilities for functional, regression, GUI, and data-driven testing.
- Task flow for Setting up DevOps Test UI
  The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for setting up HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
- Creating a project
  The tests that you create, and the assets associated with the tests, reside in a project on your desktop. You can create the project separately, or you can simply record a test, which automatically creates a project named testproj.
- Getting started in the UI Test perspective
  With the UI Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for web applications.
- Getting started in the Functional Test perspective
  To get started in functional testing, familiarize yourself with some basic concepts and use cases. You can consider several approaches before you start creating the functional test scripts to effectively automate test cases.
  - The Functional Test perspective
    The Functional Test perspective has components that are displayed automatically when you start HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI): the product menu, toolbar, Projects view, Script (simplified) editor, Java™ editor, Script Explorer, Console view, Tasks view, Application view, Keyword view, Properties view, and the status bar.
  - Importing a sample functional test project
    One way to get started quickly with HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is to import the sample functional test project that is provided with Test UI. The sample project includes sample test scripts that you can use. When you import the sample project, it is copied to your Eclipse workspace.
  - Task flow for testing applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the application using HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Task flow for testing Java applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Java application using HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Task flow for testing HTML applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the HTML application using HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Task flow for testing Eclipse applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Eclipse application using HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Task flow for testing SAP applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the SAP application using HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Visual Studio .NET window
    The Visual Studio .NET window has the following components: Start page, product menu, toolbar, Script Explorer, Solution Explorer, code and text editor, Server Explorer, Class view, Properties window, and Dynamic Help.
  - Using the Functional Test perspective of on Linux
    For the Functional Test perspective, most features are supported on Linux®, except for recording the scripts. This topic provides an overview about how HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) behaves on Linux.
- Task flow for integrating DevOps Test UI and DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
  You can run integration tests in HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) by using Test UI Extension for HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs). In Test UI, you can create a compound test to run the integration tests by using agents.
Tutorials
You can learn to start using Test UI by reviewing the information in the Tutorials for the UI Test perspective and Functional Test perspective.
Samples
You can find the sample project that you can use with HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) to test the functionality of an application.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes how to automate the playback of the tests by using different methods such as Docker, IBM Cloud Private, Jenkins and so on. The test results can be pushed to HCL DevOps Test Virtualization Control Panel (Test Virtualization Control Panel).
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
Troubleshooting
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
Reference Guide
This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
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 DevOps Test UI (Test UI) as a PDF file.
Security Considerations
You can take certain actions 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.

The Functional Test perspective

The Functional Test perspective has components that are displayed automatically when you start HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI): the product menu, toolbar, Projects view, Script (simplified) editor, Java™ editor, Script Explorer, Console view, Tasks view, Application view, Keyword view, Properties view, and the status bar.

Click a component for more information.

Menu
Toolbar
Projects view
Script editor
Java Editor
Script Explorer
Application View
Keyword View
Properties view: Properties view - General page, Properties View - Playback page, Properties View - Log page and Properties View - Advanced page.
Console View
Tasks View
Status bar -- the product uses the status bar at the bottom of the Test Perspective to display messages.

For more information on perspectives and views, see the online Workbench User Guide.