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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Performance. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integration with other products
You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy
You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run performance test assets as a Process from UrbanCode Deploy.
Installing the plugin on UrbanCode™ Deploy
You must install the HCL OneTest™ Performance UCD plugin to run performance test assets from UrbanCode™ Deploy.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Performance. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of HCL OneTest™ Performance
  Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL OneTest™ Performance is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of HCL OneTest™ Performance, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure HCL OneTest™ Performance when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with HCL OneTest™ Performance.
  - Running tests by using Ant
    When you want to automate repetitive tasks, you can run performance test assets from the command-line interface by using Ant.
  - Integration with 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™ Performance and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
  - Integration with Apache JMeter
    You can use JMeter tests extension with HCL OneTest™ Performance to run JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    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 HCL OneTest™ Performance 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 HCL OneTest Performance.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with HCL OneTest™ Performance to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in HCL OneTest™ Performance.
  - Integration with HCL® Launch
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with HCL® Launch to run performance test assets as a Process from HCL Launch.
  - Integration with HCL OneTest™ API
    You can use HCL OneTest™ API extension to run API tests from HCL OneTest Performance. You can either import the projects from HCL OneTest API or manage them from HCL OneTest Performance by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run performance test assets as a Process from UrbanCode Deploy.
    - Installing the plugin on UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must install the HCL OneTest™ Performance UCD plugin to run performance test assets from UrbanCode™ Deploy.
    - Creating a component in UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must create a component to include artifacts and processes. The artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions. Whereas the processes define the activities that components can perform.
    - Creating a process in UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must create a process for the component to include step properties for the test that you want to run from UrbanCode™ Deploy.
    - Configuring the process
      You must configure the process that you created for the component to organize the steps in the process, specify the properties of the steps, and connect them.
    - Creating a resource in UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must create a resource to associate agents with components that you created in UrbanCode™ Deploy.
    - Configuring the resource
      You must configure the resource to add an agent and associate the agent with the component.
    - Creating an application in UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You must create an application to fetch all the components together that you want to deploy.
    - Configuring the application
      You must configure the application to associate resources with environments and define processes to run test assets.
    - Running tests from UrbanCode™ Deploy
      You can run test assets from UrbanCode™ Deploy as a Process to test the performance of your application under test.
  - Integration of Jaeger with the product
    Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the HCL OneTest™ Performance Jenkins 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).
  - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.

Installing the plugin on UrbanCode™ Deploy

You must install the HCL OneTest™ Performance UCD plugin to run performance test assets from UrbanCode™ Deploy.

Before you begin

You must be familiar with working with UrbanCode™ Deploy.
You must have performed the following tasks:
- Installed UrbanCode™ Deploy. For more information about the installation, refer to the IBM Urban Code documentation.
- Been granted access to UrbanCode™ Deploy.
- Downloaded the HCL OneTest™ Performance UCD plugin from the HCL® License & Delivery portal.
  
  For more information about specific versions of plugin, see Integration plugin compatibility matrix.

Procedure

Log in to UrbanCode™ Deploy, if you are not already logged in.
The UrbanCode™ Deploy dashboard is displayed.
Click Settings.
Click Automation Plugins from the Automation pane.
Click Load Plugin.
Click Choose File to locate and open the compressed HCL OneTest™ Performance UCD plugin file.

Remember: You must not extract the HCL OneTest™ Performance UCD plugin compressed file contents.
Click Submit.

The installed plugin is displayed on the Automation Plugins tab.

Results

You have installed the HCL OneTest™ Performance UCD plugin on UrbanCode™ Deploy.

What to do next

You must create a Component in UrbanCode™ Deploy. See Creating a component in UrbanCode Deploy.