Welcome
Reference Guide
This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
Reference information for the Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.
Test application domain support
HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .NET, Java™, HTML, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and GEF applications.
Terminal-based applications support
HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) Extension for Terminal-based Applications supports functional testing of Mainframe or zSeries (TN3270, TN3270E), AS/400 or iSeries (TN5250) and pSeries or Virtual Terminals (VT default, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT220-7, VT220-8, VT320, VT420-7, VT420-8, VT52, VT UTF-8).

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) 2024.06 (11.0.2).
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.
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).
- Reference information for the UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the UI Test perspective.
- Reference information for the Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.
  - Test application domain support
    HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .NET, Java™, HTML, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and GEF applications.
    - Adobe PDF documents support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing of Portable Document Format (PDF) read-only files created for Adobe Reader versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, and 11.0. (Adobe Reader 11 is the last supported version of the Reader application.) You can test PDF files that are displayed in a browser or in the stand-alone Adobe Reader application. A functional test script that is recorded for files that are displayed in the stand-alone Adobe Reader application can be played back when the file is displayed in a browser and vice-versa, provided that the script is recorded for document controls only. Support for Adobe PDF requires Visual C++ 2013 or higher.
    - AJAX support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing AJAX-based web applications.
    - Application Response Measurement support
      The Application Response Measurement (ARM) standard helps measure the end-to-end transaction performance of an application, including service levels and response time. HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) uses the response time breakdown to view the statistics that is captured while running a test.
    - Eclipse support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing of Eclipse-based applications.
    - GEF support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) allows testing the functionality of GEF objects that are implemented using standard GEF editors and non-standard GEF editors. GEF editor is based on Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) that provides many features for manipulating models. GEF displays a model graphically, employs MVC (model-view-controller) architecture and aids user interaction with that model.
    - HTML support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing HTML applications that are loaded in a browser.
    - Java support
      Test UI is bundled with Java 17, and by default, the Java environment is enabled for testing Java applications.
    - .NET support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports recording and playing back user applications that are built with the Microsoft .NET Framework.
    - Windows support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing of Windows applications with Win32 controls.
    - Nested domains support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) recognizes two different kinds of nesting of objects, a parent-child nesting and an owner-owned nesting. A parent-child nesting occurs when one object is contained within another, such as a button on a form. An owner-owned nesting occurs when the owned object has its own top-level window, such as a that is owned by a top-level window.
    - PowerBuilder support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports the testing of Win32 targets and .NET targets that are created by using Sybase PowerBuilder versions 10.5, 11.0, 11.2, 11.5, 12.0, 12.5, 12.6, and Appeon PowerBuilder 2017.
    - SAP support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports extended functional testing of SAP GUI for Windows and SAP GUI for HTML.
    - Visual Basic support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 applications.
    - Terminal-based applications support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) Extension for Terminal-based Applications supports functional testing of Mainframe or zSeries (TN3270, TN3270E), AS/400 or iSeries (TN5250) and pSeries or Virtual Terminals (VT default, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT220-7, VT220-8, VT320, VT420-7, VT420-8, VT52, VT UTF-8).
  - Command line interface
    In this section, you will learn about the actions that can also be performed from the command line.
  - UI reference
    In this section, you will learn all the UI references and its additional information for the Functional Test perspective.
- Reference information for the Visual Studio IDE
- Java API reference
  You can find the links to view the following API reference guides of HCL DevOps 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.

Terminal-based applications support

HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) Extension for Terminal-based Applications supports functional testing of Mainframe or zSeries (TN3270, TN3270E), AS/400 or iSeries (TN5250) and pSeries or Virtual Terminals (VT default, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT220-7, VT220-8, VT320, VT420-7, VT420-8, VT52, VT UTF-8).

Test UI Extension for Terminal-based Applications tool helps you create test scripts to automate the host application test cases.

It provides a rich set of capabilities to test host attributes, host field attributes and screen flow through a host application. It uses terminal verification points and properties, as well as synchronization code to identify the readiness of terminal for user input.

You can use this tool to perform the following tasks:

Store, load, and share common host configurations by using a properties file. The connection configuration can be loaded automatically through scripts, using these files
Record or play back scripts against multiple host terminals.
Start the terminal even when you are not recording or playing back your scripts. With this function, you can interact with the host without leaving the working Eclipse environment.
Perform data driven testing.