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 Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) can be integrated with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational Team Concert). You can manage functional test assets by using the Jazz™ source control management that the Jazz Eclipse Client provides. You must have a compatible version of IBM Engineering Workflow Management server set up to use the Jazz source control management.
Engineering Workflow Management
You can use IBM® Engineering Workflow Management as your software configuration management system to maintain functional test assets.
Switching to Jazz source control
You can use Jazz source control management to manage functional test assets such as test object maps and scripts to facilitate functional testing efforts. The integration is controlled by a property that is set in the ivory.properties file in the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) installation directory. You can use one software configuration management client type only in a session.

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).
- 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.
  - 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 Test UI.
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use ant to run functional tests from the command line of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). Starting with version 2.0 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously.
  - Testing with Azure DevOps for functional 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 Cucumber
    You can use Cucumber integration to create, annotate, and run functional test scripts that can be easily understood by all members of the team.
  - Testing with Micro Focus Application Life Cycle Management
    To obtain test result details, you can integrate and run Functional Test scripts in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management by using a ready-made template available in the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) installation directory.
  - 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 Test Management
    HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) can be integrated with IBM® Engineering Test Management. You can execute the functional test scripts from Test UI.
  - Testing with IBM® Engineering Test Management in the Visual Studio IDE
    HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) in the Visual Studio environment supports integration with IBM® Engineering Test Management.
  - Testing with Jenkins
    You can use the DTUI-FunctionalTest-Jenkins-HCL plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting with v9.2, you can use the Maven plug-in to run Functional Test scripts. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM). You can use the Maven plug-in that is provided to run tests as part of your Maven build.
  - Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) can be integrated with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational Team Concert). You can manage functional test assets by using the Jazz™ source control management that the Jazz Eclipse Client provides. You must have a compatible version of IBM Engineering Workflow Management server set up to use the Jazz source control management.
    - Engineering Workflow Management
      You can use IBM® Engineering Workflow Management as your software configuration management system to maintain functional test assets.
      - Switching to Jazz source control
        You can use Jazz source control management to manage functional test assets such as test object maps and scripts to facilitate functional testing efforts. The integration is controlled by a property that is set in the ivory.properties file in the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) installation directory. You can use one software configuration management client type only in a session.
      - Sharing a project
        To manage the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) projects by using the Jazz source control provider, you must share the project and select Jazz source control as the repository provider. To perform source control operations on the Test UI project, the project must be in the Jazz repository workspace. When the project is shared, the project is moved to the Jazz repository workspace.
      - Merging object maps
        You can merge two object maps by comparing your local copy with the repository copy of the file. HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) merges the two object maps automatically.
  - Testing with Tivoli Composite Application Manager
    HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) can be integrated with IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager. You can schedule the interval at which the application manager agent runs to track the response time and generate logs using Test UI scripts.
  - Testing with HCL® DevOps Deploy
    You can integrate Test UI with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to run tests as a Process from Deploy.
  - Testing with IBM® DevOps Deploy
    You can run functional test scripts remotely with the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) - Functional Test plugin for IBM® DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
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.

Switching to Jazz source control

You can use Jazz source control management to manage functional test assets such as test object maps and scripts to facilitate functional testing efforts. The integration is controlled by a property that is set in the ivory.properties file in the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) installation directory. You can use one software configuration management client type only in a session.

About this task

To switch to Jazz source control, you must specify the software configuration management client type in the ivory.properties file. To modify the ivory.properties file, you must have the appropriate permission.

Procedure

Close Test UI.
Open the ivory.properties file available in the folder <product installation directory>\Functional Tester\bin\.
Set the rational.test.ft.cm.clienttype to CCRC. The default value is set to NATIVE_CC. Changing the value to CCRC enables Test UI to use source control plug-ins like Jazz source control and CCRC Eclipse plug-ins.
Save the ivory.properties file, and start Test UI.