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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ API. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integrations
HCL OneTest™ API supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy or HCL® Launch.
HCL OneTest™ API and Git
The Git integration feature provides a flexible test asset management method to track, back up, and collaborate on a project with multiple users. Collaborators in Git can import projects and test assets from shared repositories into HCL OneTest™ API and contribute their own assets and changes to the project so that everyone has access to the changes.
Working with Git by using HCL OneTest™ API
After you have set up the Git repositories for your test project assets, you can use the HCL OneTest™ API to perform operations to load your project, pull the test assets from the remote repository, make changes, commit changes to the remote repository, or reload your project test assets from the remote repository ignoring the uncommitted changes in your local repository. By using the HCL OneTest API UI, you can visually ascertain the connectivity to the repository and the status of the files on both the remote and local repositories.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ API. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of HCL OneTest™ API
  You can find information about installing HCL OneTest™ API from the HCL OneTest Studio or HCL OneTest API package.
- Installation of HCL® Quality Server
  You can find information about installing HCL® Quality Server from the HCL OneTest™ Studio, HCL OneTest Virtualization, or HCL OneTest API package.
- Uninstalling the product software
  When you no longer require the software, you can use either Installation Manager or the stand-alone installer to uninstall the products that you have installed.
- License management
  Licensing for your HCL software is administered through HCL® License & Delivery portal. This portal is FlexNet-based web application to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Configuration of HCL OneTest™ API
- Administering HCL® Quality ServerHCL® Quality Server
  is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The HCL® Quality Server allows you to use virtual services published with HCL OneTest™ API to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in HCL OneTest Virtualization.
- Integrations
  HCL OneTest™ API supports integration with various other tools for quality management, change management, software configuration management, and deployment automation tools such as UrbanCode™ Deploy or HCL® Launch.
  - HCL OneTest™ API and Apache Maven
    Apache Maven is a software build tool that is based on the concept of a Project Object Model (POM). You can use the Maven plug-in that is provided for HCL OneTest™ API to run integration tests and test suites as part of your Maven build.
  - HCL OneTest™ API and Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL OneTest™ API and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest API by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - HCL OneTest™ API and change management tools
    HCL OneTest™ API can be integrated with the OSLC-compliant Change Management Integration Providers such as Rational® Team Concert™. It can also be integrated with Team Foundation Server Change Management Integration Providers (such as Microsoft™ Team Foundation Server), and Atlassian Jira. After integration, defects and projects can be tracked directly through Rational Team Concert.
  - HCL OneTest™ API and Git
    The Git integration feature provides a flexible test asset management method to track, back up, and collaborate on a project with multiple users. Collaborators in Git can import projects and test assets from shared repositories into HCL OneTest™ API and contribute their own assets and changes to the project so that everyone has access to the changes.
    - Setting up the Git integration
      To collaborate with other project stakeholders you can open test projects from a local clone of the Git repository, pull project test assets from a Git repository, and push changes made to your local test assets to a Git repository. You can access and use Git from HCL OneTest™ API and the testing environment is integrated with both local and remote Git repositories.
    - Working with Git by using HCL OneTest™ API
      After you have set up the Git repositories for your test project assets, you can use the HCL OneTest™ API to perform operations to load your project, pull the test assets from the remote repository, make changes, commit changes to the remote repository, or reload your project test assets from the remote repository ignoring the uncommitted changes in your local repository. By using the HCL OneTest API UI, you can visually ascertain the connectivity to the repository and the status of the files on both the remote and local repositories.
      - Git operations in HCL OneTest™ API
        You can work with your project files that are in a Git repository from HCL OneTest™ API and perform Git operations such as checking out files from the remote repository and committing changes in the local repository to the remote repository. You can also set up the preferences in HCL OneTest API for Git.
  - HCL OneTest and HCL Launch
    When you use HCL® Launch (HCL Launch) for automating application deployments of your application, you can run tests created for your application that are created in HCL OneTest™ API. You can run the tests from HCL Launch by using the HCL Launch plugin for HCL OneTest API or the HCL Launch plugin for HCL OneTest Virtualization
  - HCL OneTest™ API and HP Quality Center
    The HCL OneTest™ API add-in for HP Quality Center provides a way to integrate the powerful test creation and execution functionality of HCL OneTest API with the organizational structures provided by Quality Center.
  - HCL OneTest™ API and IBM® Engineering Test Management
    When you integrate HCL OneTest™ API with Engineering Test Management, you can run HCL OneTest API tests and suites in the centralized test management environment of Engineering Test Management.
  - HCL OneTest™ API and IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
    The integration of HCL OneTest™ API with IBM® Rational® Quality Manager enables the execution of HCL OneTest API tests and suites in Rational Quality Manager centralized test management environment.
  - Integration with Rational Software Architect Designer
    With IBM® Rational® Software Architect Designer, you can design an organization's services, which include technical description, technical documentation, and links to other technical documentation. As a tester, you can pull this information into HCL OneTest™ API by using a WSDL or WADL add operation and populate the Architecture School quickly and accurately. HCL OneTest API parses the added documents in a way that you can directly use them in your testing.
  - HCL OneTest™ API and Jenkins
    When you use Jenkins for the continuous integration (CI) of your application, you can run tests for testing your application. You can run tests created in HCL OneTest™ API for your application in Jenkins by using the Integration Tester Jenkins Plugin.
  - HCL OneTest™ Virtualization with Engineering Test Management
    You can implement HCL OneTest™ Virtualization in Engineering Test Management integrated with HCL OneTest Virtualization by using HCL® Quality Server.
  - HCL OneTest™ Virtualization with Rational® Quality Manager
    You can implement HCL OneTest™ Virtualization in Rational® Quality Manager integrated with HCL OneTest Virtualization by using HCL® Quality Server.

Working with Git by using HCL OneTest™ API

After you have set up the Git repositories for your test project assets, you can use the HCL OneTest™ API to perform operations to load your project, pull the test assets from the remote repository, make changes, commit changes to the remote repository, or reload your project test assets from the remote repository ignoring the uncommitted changes in your local repository. By using the HCL OneTest™ API UI, you can visually ascertain the connectivity to the repository and the status of the files on both the remote and local repositories.

Prerequisites

Before you use the HCL OneTest™ API UI to perform the Git operations, certain tasks must be completed:

You must have installed Git.
You must have set up the remote Git repository.
You must have set up your account to access the remote Git repository.
You must have set up the local Git repository.
The test project files must be available under the local Git repository directory.
The test project files must be available in the remote Git repository.

Git operations

You can perform the following Git operations in HCL OneTest™ API.