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 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.
Starting and stopping the ETM adapter from the command line
You can use the command-line interface to start, stop, and view activities of the Engineering Test Management adapter that you configured in 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).
- 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.
  - 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.
    - Configuring the ETM adapter
      You must configure the Engineering Test Management adapter to establish a successful connection between HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) and Engineering Test Management.
    - Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter
      You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Engineering Test Management adapter from command-line interface.
    - Connecting and disconnecting the ETM adapter from the GUI mode
      You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
    - Starting and stopping the ETM adapter from the command line
      You can use the command-line interface to start, stop, and view activities of the Engineering Test Management adapter that you configured in HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
    - Importing test assets into Engineering Test Management
      You can import the functional tests into Engineering Test Management by using an adapter.
    - Testing shared assets
      You can make test projects and assets shareable in Engineering Test Management. By sharing assets, any computer with your product, that is connected to Engineering Test Management can execute a test or schedule.
    - Troubleshooting: Unable to open unified reports
      When you try to open the unified report that is published to the Engineering Test Management after the test run, the report fails to open in the browser.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Starting and stopping the Engineering Test Management adapter from the command line

You can use the command-line interface to start, stop, and view activities of the Engineering Test Management adapter that you configured in HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).

Before you begin

You must have performed the following tasks:

Configured the adapter in Test UI. See Configuring the Engineering Test Management adapter.
Configured the workspace directory of the adapter. See Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter.

About this task

When you run test assets from the command-line interface, the adapter activities are printed to the adapter.log file that can be accessed from product_install_dir\HOT-UI_RQMAdapter\logs.

To print the current status of the adapter, you must navigate to the product_install_dir\HOT-UI_RQMAdapter\bin directory, and then you can run the RQMAdapter.bat STATUS command.

Where, product_install_dir is the installation directory of Test UI.

Warning: You must not use Test UI while the adapter is running. You must stop the adapter before you open Test UI for any reason.

Procedure

Open a command-line interface.
Navigate to the product_install_dir\HOT-PERF_RQMAdapter\bin\ directory.

Perform the following step either to start or stop the adapter:

Run the following command to start the adapter from the command line:

Operating system	Command to be run
Windows™	RQMAdapter.bat START
Linux™	RQMAdapter.sh START

Run the following command to stop the adapter from the command line:

Operating system	Command to be run
Windows™	RQMAdapter.bat STOP
Linux™	RQMAdapter.sh STOP

Results

You have started or stopped the Engineering Test Management adapter from the command-line interface.