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This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL OneTest™ API.
HCL OneTest™ API overview
You can use HCL OneTest™ API to create, modify, and run service tests.

Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL OneTest™ API.
- HCL OneTest™ API overview
  You can use HCL OneTest™ API to create, modify, and run service tests.
  - Interactive Guides
    The home page contains several interactive guides that walks you, step by step, through some of the common tasks.
  - Task flow: Basic test scenario
    A diagram is provided to show you a basic task flow that can help you get started with some of the features of the tool to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
  - Task flow: Advanced test data scenario
    A diagram is provided to show you an advanced task flow that can help you get started with resources, environments, schemas, and test suites to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
- Testing methodology
  By following four basic guidelines, you can incorporate HCL OneTest™ API into your testing methodology. These guidelines drive efficient and expedient integration testing, and they can be applied to your testing process and infrastructure requirements.
- Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing
  A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.
- Getting started with testing
  You can start using HCL OneTest™ API by completing the preliminary tasks such as creating and running a test, creating and running a stub, recording an HTTP proxy, and running a stub in a Docker container.
- HCL® Quality Server overview
  HCL OneTest™ Virtualization stubs designed in HCL OneTest API are published to HCL® Quality Server, which holds them in a repository.
- HCL OneTest™ API accessibility features
  Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use HCL OneTest™ API.

HCL OneTest™ API overview

You can use HCL OneTest™ API to create, modify, and run service tests.

These are the components of HCL OneTest™ API:

HCL OneTest™ API
HCL® Quality Server

HCL OneTest™ API

With HCL OneTest™ API, you get a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. You can build tests by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return. You can also create virtual services to remove test dependencies and enable earlier testing. Virtual services can be deployed by Service Virtualization to provide on-demand virtualized test environments that can support all phases of the test development lifecycle.

HCL® Quality Server

The HCL® Quality Server is a server-based web application that provides a central repository for virtualized services. The server allows you to use virtual services published with HCL OneTest™ API to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in HCL OneTest™ Virtualization.

It also contains technology-specific components used by HCL OneTest™ API for recording SOA message conversations, HTTP(S) and JDBC traffic, and for monitoring middleware systems under test with minimal reconfiguration of client applications

You can find the following information that help you get started with HCL OneTest™ API: