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Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured. You can also edit existing test assets that are in the repository added to your project. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Datasets overview
A dataset provides tests with variable data during a run. The test that uses a dataset at run time replaces a value in the recorded test with variable test data that is stored in the dataset.
Publishing a dataset
When you create or edit any datasets in HCL OneTest™ Server, you can publish your changes to the Git repository. Therefore, when you publish the dataset, other members in the project can use your dataset in their test run, if required.

Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured. You can also edit existing test assets that are in the repository added to your project. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
- Test authoring
  You can use HCL OneTest™ Server to author tests instead of creating the tests by using the desktop products.
- Datasets overview
  A dataset provides tests with variable data during a run. The test that uses a dataset at run time replaces a value in the recorded test with variable test data that is stored in the dataset.
  - Creating a dataset
    You can create datasets in HCL OneTest™ Server to replace the existing dataset values with new dataset values during a test or schedule run.
  - Editing a dataset
    You can add, modify, remove, import, or export data from a dataset by using the CSV Editor. The working principle of the CSV Editor is similar to that of a spreadsheet.
  - Publishing a dataset
    When you create or edit any datasets in HCL OneTest™ Server, you can publish your changes to the Git repository. Therefore, when you publish the dataset, other members in the project can use your dataset in their test run, if required.
  - Viewing a dataset
    When test assets includes datasets, you can view the contents of a dataset from HCL OneTest™ Server. The datasets residing in the Git repository are listed in the Datasets page.
  - Deleting a dataset
    You can delete the dataset when it is not required in your test environment.
- Generation of test data
  To test an application, you use data that is passed to get real-time results. Since creating test data manually is time-consuming, you can use HCL® OneTest™ Data, an automated tool to generate random test data. You can generate the test data in various file formats.

Publishing a dataset

When you create or edit any datasets in HCL OneTest™ Server, you can publish your changes to the Git repository. Therefore, when you publish the dataset, other members in the project can use your dataset in their test run, if required.

Before you begin

You must have created, edited, or deleted dataset assets in HCL OneTest™ Server.

About this task

The Changes page lists the dataset assets that are modified. You can publish all datasets or a single dataset listed on the Changes page to the Git repository by selecting the appropriate checkboxes.

When multiple users edit the same dataset, all users can publish their changes to the Git repository only if the changes made are not conflicting with other users.

Consider that you have a dataset with 5 rows and 2 columns. If user1 updates row 2, column 1, and user2 updates row 5, column 1, then they can publish their changes to the Git repository. If both users update row 2 and column 1 of the dataset and attempt to publish the same dataset, then the publish request that reaches first to the server is processed. The other user receives a conflict error message, and the dataset does not get published.

When you modify the dataset and publish it to the Git repository, the other members who have access to that dataset can view the updated dataset.

You can click the Menu icon menu_icon to perform the following actions from the Changes page:

Options	Actions
Edit	Click Edit to make any updates to the dataset before publishing.
Discard	Click Discard to remove the changes that you made to the dataset asset.
Save As	Click Save As to save a copy of the dataset.

Procedure

Login to HCL OneTest™ Server, if you are not already logged in.
Open a project from the team space.
Go to the Changes page, and find the dataset that you want to publish.
Select the checkbox that precedes the dataset name to publish to the Git repository, and then click Publish.
Enter a description for the changes made to the dataset, and then click Publish.
A notification is displayed for successful pushing of changes to the Git repository.

Results

You have published the modified dataset into the Git repository.