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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).
Installing the product using Installation Manager
In this section, you will learn the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks to install the product by using Installation Manager.
Installation terminology
Understanding these terms can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).

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.
- Installation
  You can find information about the installation of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Installation requirements
    This section details hardware, software, and user privilege requirements that must be met in order to successfully install and run HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Installing the product using Installation Manager
    In this section, you will learn the pre-installation, installation, and post-installation tasks to install the product by using Installation Manager.
    - Installation terminology
      Understanding these terms can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
    - Planning the installation
      Read all the topics in this section before you begin to install or update any of the product features. Effective planning and an understanding of the key aspects of the installation process can help ensure a successful installation.
    - Preinstallation tasks
      Before you install the product, you might need to prepare or configure your computer.
    - Installing software
      This section provides the instructions for installing Installation Manager and the product as well as installation verification.
    - Post-installation tasks
      After you have installed your product package, complete the post-installation tasks or configure your product package as required.
    - Installation in the shell sharing mode
      You can install HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) in the same package group with the other supported Eclipse-based products. These products share a common environment, or they are shell shared. Shell shared products have a common installation directory, <Install_Directory>\HCL\DevOpsTest. Test UI installs as a perspective in the UI of the product with which it is shell-shared.
    - Modifying installations
      The Modify Packages wizard in the IBM® Installation Manager enables you to change the language and feature selections of an installed product package. You can also use the Modify Packages wizard to install new features that might be included in a package update, such as a refresh pack.
    - Uninstalling DevOps Test UI
      The Uninstall Packages option in the Installation Manager enables you to uninstall packages from a single installation location. You can also uninstall all the installed packages from every installation location.
  - Installation by using the stand-alone installer
    You can find information about installing the product software on Windows system by using the stand-alone installer.
  - Uninstallation by using the stand-alone installer
    You can use the stand-alone installer to uninstall HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) that you have installed.
  - About upgrading and migrating
    When you want to use the enhanced functionality of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI), you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is administered through HCLSoftware License & Download Portal (FlexNet Operations Cloud). 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.
- 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.

Installation terminology

Understanding these terms can help you take full advantage of the installation information and your HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).

These terms are used in the installation topics.

Installation directory: The location of product artifacts after the package is installed.

Package: An installable unit of a software product. Software product packages are separately installable units that can operate independently from other packages of that software product.

Package group: A package group is a directory in which different product packages share resources with other packages in the same group. When you install a package using Installation Manager, you can create a new package group or install the packages into an existing package group. (Some packages cannot share a package group, in which case the option to use an existing package group is unavailable.)

Repository: A storage area where packages are available for download. A repository can be disc media, a folder on a local hard disk, or a server or web location.

Shared directory: In some instances, product packages can share resources. These resources are located in a directory that the packages share.