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Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL OneTest™ UI. You can find the task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest UI. This guide is intended for new users.
Getting started in the Functional Test perspective
To get started in functional testing, familiarize yourself with some basic concepts and use cases. You can consider several approaches before you start creating the functional test scripts to effectively automate test cases.
The Functional Test perspective
The Functional Test perspective has components that are displayed automatically when you start HCL OneTest™ UI: the product menu, toolbar, Projects view, Script (simplified) editor, Java™ editor, Script Explorer, Console view, Tasks view, Application view, Keyword view, Properties view, and the status bar.

Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview of HCL OneTest™ UI. You can find the task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest UI. This guide is intended for new users.
- HCL OneTest™ UI overview
  HCL OneTest™ UI is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests a wide range of desktop, Web, and mobile applications. HCL OneTest UI provides automated testing capabilities for functional, regression, GUI, and data-driven testing.
- Task flow for Setting up HCL OneTest™ UI
  The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for setting up HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Creating a project
  The tests that you create, and the assets associated with the tests, reside in a project on your desktop. You can create the project separately, or you can simply record a test, which automatically creates a project named testproj.
- Getting started in the UI Test perspective
  With the UI Test perspective, you can find information and task flows to create and run functional tests for web applications.
- Getting started in the Functional Test perspective
  To get started in functional testing, familiarize yourself with some basic concepts and use cases. You can consider several approaches before you start creating the functional test scripts to effectively automate test cases.
  - The Functional Test perspective
    The Functional Test perspective has components that are displayed automatically when you start HCL OneTest™ UI: the product menu, toolbar, Projects view, Script (simplified) editor, Java™ editor, Script Explorer, Console view, Tasks view, Application view, Keyword view, Properties view, and the status bar.
  - Importing a sample functional test project
    One way to get started quickly with HCL OneTest™ UI is to import the sample functional test project that is provided with HCL OneTest UI. The sample project includes sample test scripts that you can use. When you import the sample project, it is copied to your Eclipse workspace.
  - Task flow for testing applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the application using HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Task flow for testing Java applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Java application using HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Task flow for testing HTML applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the HTML application using HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Task flow for testing Eclipse applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Eclipse application using HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Task flow for testing SAP applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the SAP application using HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Task flow for testing Flex applications
    The diagram in this topic shows the task flow for testing the Flex application using HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Visual Studio .NET window
    The Visual Studio .NET window has the following components: Start page, product menu, toolbar, Script Explorer, Solution Explorer, code and text editor, Server Explorer, Class view, Properties window, and Dynamic Help.
  - Using the Functional Test perspective of on Linux
    For the Functional Test perspective, most features are supported on Linux®, except for recording the scripts. This topic provides an overview about how HCL OneTest™ UI behaves on Linux.
- Task flow for integrating HCL OneTest™ UI and HCL OneTest™ API
  You can run integration tests in HCL OneTest™ UI by using HCL OneTest UI Extension for HCL OneTest API. In HCL OneTest UI, you can create a compound test to run the integration tests by using agents.

The Functional Test perspective

The Functional Test perspective has components that are displayed automatically when you start HCL OneTest™ UI: the product menu, toolbar, Projects view, Script (simplified) editor, Java™ editor, Script Explorer, Console view, Tasks view, Application view, Keyword view, Properties view, and the status bar.

Click a component for more information.

Menu
Toolbar
Projects view
Script editor
Java Editor
Script Explorer
Application View
Keyword View
Properties view: Properties view - General page, Properties View- Playback page, Properties View - Log page and Properties View - Advanced page.
Console View
Tasks View
Status bar -- the product uses the status bar at the bottom of the Test Perspective to display messages.

For more information on perspectives and views, see the online Workbench User Guide.