Installing in the silent mode on Windows systems

To get started with the desktop client, you can install HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) on Windows system by using the silent mode installation method.

Before you begin

  • You must be an administrator.
    Note: If you are a non-admin user, you must have the credentials of an administrator to start the installation by using the Run as Administrator option.

  • You must have completed the following tasks:

About this task

The 32-bit stand-alone installer of Test UI supports only the SAP extension. The SAP, Citrix, and Siebel tests are supported only for 32-bit stand-alone DevOps Test Performance installer and 32-bit shell-shared installer that are installed on Windows system 64-bit operating system. You cannot update, modify, or roll back the product by using the stand-alone installer.

You can use the stand-alone installer and the product in your preferred language. The display language of your computer is selected as the preferred language of the stand-alone installer. For example, if the display language of your computer is set as French, then the preferred language of the stand-alone installer is also selected as French.

You can change the language of the stand-alone installer and the product by providing the -l language_code parameter during the installation of the product.

Procedure

  1. Download the product installer from the HCL® License & Delivery portal.

    You must download the appropriate product variant, version, and architecture based on your requirements.

    Note: When you want to install both Test UI and Test Performance on your computer, you can install them by using a single shell-shared package. The single shell-shared DevOps-Test-UI-and-Performance package for the 64-bit platform is available in the HCL® License & Delivery portal.

    On the 32-bit platform, you must use separate packages of Test UI and Test Performance to install them in the shell-shared mode by using Installation Manager. See Shell sharing with Test Performance.

    When you want to install Test Performance Agent in the shell-shared mode with Test UI, you must first install Test UI, and then install Test Performance Agent.

  2. Right-click the Command Prompt application and select Run as Administrator.
  3. Run the following command to change the directory to a location where you downloaded the installer file: 
    cd <directory path>
    For example, cd C:\users\Downloads
  4. Extract the downloaded installer file.
  5. Run the following command to install the product: 
    <installer_name> -i silent -l <language_code> -f <location_of_the_installer.properties_file_name>

    For example, you can run the following command to install Test UI 11.0.0 in French:

    DevOps-Test-UI-Windows-x64-v11.0.0.0.exe -i silent -l fr -f C:\users\Downloads\installer.properties

    The following table lists the language codes that you might want to choose during the installation:
    Languages Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech English French German Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Spanish Turkish
    Language codes zh_CN zh_TW cz en fr de hu it ja ko pl pt_BR ru es tr
    Notes:
    • The -l parameter is optional. If you do not want to use this parameter, then the following information are displayed in a language based on the display language that is set on your computer:

      • The installation instructions

      • The language of the product

    • If the installation is terminated due to any reason, you must check the Installerror.txt file to know more about the problem that occurred during the installation process. The error log is located at \<installation directory>\Logs.

    You can verify the status of the installation of the product by checking the log file at \<installation directory>\Logs.

Results

You have installed the product on your computer.

What to do next

You must enter the license key when you open the product. See License management.