Welcome
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.
License management
Licensing for HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
License description
You require floating seat licenses to use HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). If you want to run AFT Suites or parallel execution of tests on more than 5 channels, you require execution licenses.

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.
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.
- Installation
  You can find information about the installation of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
- License management
  Licensing for HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
  - License description
    You require floating seat licenses to use HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). If you want to run AFT Suites or parallel execution of tests on more than 5 channels, you require execution licenses.
  - License configuration
    You must first apply a license to start using HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Collecting usage metrics data
    To provide an insight into the usage patterns of the product itself and not necessarily the application that it is testing, the usage metrics are collected. The product can collect the metrics about the usage of the tool including and not limited to the number of tests executed, the number of actions performed against an application under test, the number of successful versus failed actions, verification points, and so on.
- Starting DevOps Test UI from the command line
  You can start HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Software configuration management
  You can integrateHCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) with the software configuration management systems to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
- Integrations in UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
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.

License description

You require floating seat licenses to use HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). If you want to run AFT Suites or parallel execution of tests on more than 5 channels, you require execution licenses.

When you place an order for a software application, the HCL License Fulfilment team acknowledges the order and creates a software entitlement for you. You can then create devices and map the software entitlement with the devices through the HCL® License & Delivery portal. Every device is associated with a server ID. This server ID is applied to the product. The team can create multiple software entitlements based on your requirements.

Note: If you use the Local License Server, you must also map the software entitlements with the Local License Server.

You can use any of the following licenses according to your requirements:

Floating seat license to use HCL DevOps Test UI

To use HCL DevOps Test UI, you require a floating seat license or you can also use a HCL DevOps Test Workbench floating license. A floating seat license is in the checked-out state when you use HCL DevOps Test UI, and the license is in the checked-in state in the HCL® License & Delivery portal when the license is not used for 15 minutes. Multiple users can use HCL DevOps Test UI by using floating seat licenses. However, the total number of concurrent users cannot exceed the number of floating licenses that you purchase.
Floating license to run AFT Suites/tests

To run AFT Suites or parallel execution of tests on more than 5 channels, you require consumption-based licenses, execution floating licenses, or both.

When you use consumption-based licenses, an appropriate number of licenses are in the checked-out state when you start the test run and these licenses are permanently consumed after use. The number of licenses that are checked out depend on the configuration of the AFT Suites/tests.

The execution floating licenses are different from the floating seat licenses, but both the licenses work in a similar manner. A number of floating licenses are in the checked-out state when you start the test run, and the license is in the checked-in state in the HCL® License & Delivery portal within 15 minutes of the completion of test run. You can reuse execution floating licenses for an infinite number of times until the license expiration date.