Configuring the Freestyle project

You must configure a Freestyle project to add a build step, and then run test assets from Jenkins.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

  • Installed the HCL OneTest™ UI - Functional Test on the Jenkins primary server. See Installing the plugin on the Jenkins primary server.

  • Created an Agent in Jenkins. For more information about creating Agents, refer to the Jenkins documentation.

  • Copied the name of the labels that you provided in the Labels field when you created the Agent.

  • Created a Jenkins Freestyle project.

About this task

When you create a Freestyle project in the Jenkins server, you must select the Restrict where this project can be run checkbox and enter the name of the labels that you provided during the creation of Agent in the Label Expression field.

Procedure

  1. Open the Jenkins Freestyle project, and then click Configure.
  2. Click the Build tab, and then click Add build step.
  3. Select the Run an HCL OneTest UI - Functional Test option from the drop-down list.
  4. Provide the details about the test run for the fields in the following table:
    Field Description
    Name Required. The name of the HCL OneTest™ UI test.
    Project Directory Required. The fully qualified path to the HCL OneTest™ UI project directory. You must use '\\' or '/' as the file separator.
    Script Name Required. The name of the script to be run.
    Log Format Optional. The format of the script run logs. The avaiable options are as follows:
    • Default
    • none
    • json
    • xml
    • html
    • TPTP
    • Text
    Iteration Count Optional. The number of dataset iterations to be run.
    User Arguments Optional. Additional playback arguments, if any. For multiple arguments, you must enclose each argument within double quotation marks and separate the arguments by providing a space between them. For example, "password" "7891230" "20".
    Project Dependencies Optional. The complete path to the project that your test depends for the run. If there are multiple projects, you must separate each project path with a semicolon.
  5. Optional: Click Add build step again, and provide details for the next test to run multiple tests under the same job.
  6. Click Save.

Results

You have configured the Freestyle project by adding the build step.

What to do next

You can run test assets from the Jenkins server. See Running tests from Jenkins.