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.
Integrations in UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
Testing with HCL® DevOps Deploy
You can integrate HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to run tests as a Process from Deploy.
Running tests from HCL® DevOps Deploy
You can run the Web UI tests for your application under test from HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) as a Process.

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.
- 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.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugins that are required to integrate Jenkins, Ant, and HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) with HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use Ant to run compound tests and Web UI tests from the command-line interface.
  - Testing with Azure DevOps for UI tests
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Test UI by using the HCL DevOps Test Workbench (Test Workbench) extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - Testing with EGit
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - Configuration of test runs as a GitHub Actions Workflow
    You can configure test runs of test resources that are in a project repository of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in the project in the GitHub Workflow when you want to run the test resources without opening the Test UI.
  - Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) Eclipse client.
  - Testing with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Testing with Jenkins
    You can use the DTUI-UITest-Jenkins-HCL plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
  - Testing with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
  - Testing with DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
    You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) extension to run API tests from HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). You can either import the projects from Test Integrations and APIs or manage them from Test UI by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Testing with HCL® DevOps Deploy
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to run tests as a Process from Deploy.
    - Installing the plugin on HCL® DevOps Deploy
      You must install the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) Deploy plugin to run tests from HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
    - Creating a component in HCL DevOps Deploy
      You must create a component to include artifacts and processes. The artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions. Whereas the processes define the activities that components can perform.
    - Creating a process in HCL® DevOps Deploy
      You must create a process for the component to include step properties for the test that you want to run from HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
    - Configuring the process
      You must configure the process that you created for the component to organize the steps in the process, specify the properties of the steps, and connect them.
    - Creating a resource in HCL® DevOps Deploy
      You must create a resource to associate agents with components that you created in HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
    - Configuring the resource
      You must configure the resource to add an agent and associate the agent with the component.
    - Creating an application in HCL® DevOps Deploy
      You must create an application to fetch all the components together that you want to deploy.
    - Configuring the application
      You must configure the application to associate resources with environments and define processes to run tests.
    - Running tests from HCL® DevOps Deploy
      You can run the Web UI tests for your application under test from HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) as a Process.
  - Testing with IBM® DevOps Deploy
    With the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) plugin for IBM® DevOps Deploy (Deploy), you can automate the execution of tests and compound tests.
- 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.

Running tests from HCL® DevOps Deploy

You can run the Web UI tests for your application under test from HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) as a Process.

Before you begin

You must be familiar with working with Deploy.
You must have performed the following tasks:
- Been granted access to Deploy.
- Created a component in Deploy. See Creating a component in HCL DevOps Deploy.
- Created a process for the component in Deploy. See Creating a process in HCL DevOps Deploy.
- Configure the process for the component in Deploy. See Configuring the process .
- Created a resource in Deploy. See .Creating a resource in HCL DevOps Deploy
- Configured the resource in Deploy. See Configuring the resource.
- Created an application in Deploy. See Creating an application in HCL DevOps Deploy.
- Started the Deploy agent. For more information, refer to the HCL Deploy documentation.
- Closed Test UI.

Procedure

Log in to Deploy, if you are not already logged in.
The Deploy dashboard is displayed.
Click Applications.
A list of applications that are available in Deploy is displayed.
Click the application that you configured for the test run.
Click the Request Process icon.
The Create Deployment page is displayed.
Select the process that you created for the application which contains the test assets from the Process drop-down list.
Click Next, and then select the specific version of component, if any.

Note: If you have multiple versions for your component, then only you can choose the required version by clicking the Add option.
Click Next, and then verify the properties for the test run.
Click Next, and then verify that the status of the Run Now option is enabled.
You can disable the Run Now option, and then use the Date, Time, and Recurrence Pattern fields to run tests as Process at the scheduled time.
Click Next, and then verify the details about the Process.
Click Submit Deployment to initiate the test run.

Results

You have run the Web UI test as Process from Deploy.

What to do next

You can view the status of the process as follows:

Success: When the test run is successful
Failed: When the test run fails

You can view the details of the test run in the Log tab. The Reports information section on the Log file displays the names of the report along with its corresponding URLs if you publish test results to HCL DevOps Test Hub.