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You can learn to start using HCL OneTest™ UI by reviewing the information in the Tutorials for the UI Test perspective and Functional Test perspective.
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HCL OneTest™ UI tutorials contain educational materials to help you learn the technologies and concepts behind products.
Create a functional test
This tutorial teaches you how to get started using HCL OneTest™ UI and walks you through the major use cases for testing and performing basic operations. This tutorial uses the sample application provided with HCL OneTest UI to perform all the tasks.
Lesson 1: Set up HCL OneTest™ UI
HCL OneTest™ UI provides a Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) that is installed and enabled for testing Java applications. You use that JRE for the tutorial. When you want to test your own Java or HTML applications, you must run the enabler and configure your environments and applications. For more information on these set-up tasks, see Getting Started with HCL OneTest UI. For now you do not need to do anything to use the preconfigured JRE to continue.

Tutorials
You can learn to start using HCL OneTest™ UI by reviewing the information in the Tutorials for the UI Test perspective and Functional Test perspective.
- Tutorials for testing in the UI Test perspective
  You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the UI Test perspective in HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Tutorials for testing in the Functional Test perspective
  You can use the tutorials to get started with testing in the Functional Test perspective in HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Tutorials for testing in the Visual Studio IDE
  HCL OneTest™ UI tutorials contain educational materials to help you learn the technologies and concepts behind products.
  - Create a functional test
    This tutorial teaches you how to get started using HCL OneTest™ UI and walks you through the major use cases for testing and performing basic operations. This tutorial uses the sample application provided with HCL OneTest UI to perform all the tasks.
    - Lesson 1: Set up HCL OneTest™ UI
      HCL OneTest™ UI provides a Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) that is installed and enabled for testing Java applications. You use that JRE for the tutorial. When you want to test your own Java or HTML applications, you must run the enabler and configure your environments and applications. For more information on these set-up tasks, see Getting Started with HCL OneTest UI. For now you do not need to do anything to use the preconfigured JRE to continue.
    - Lesson 2: Record a script
      In this lesson, you will record a script using the HCL OneTest™ UI Recording Monitor.
    - Lesson 3: Create verification points
      In this lesson, you will record verification points to test objects. Verification points verify that a certain action has taken place, or verify the state of an object.
    - Lesson 4: Play back the script
      In this lesson, you will play back the script and look at some parts of the HCL OneTest™ UI interface. Because the script you just recorded is the active script, that script will play back when you click the playback button.
    - Lesson 5: View verification points and object maps
      In this lesson, you will learn how to view and modify the properties of verification points and object maps.
    - Lesson 6: Perform regression tests
      In this lesson, you will execute your script on a different build. When you have a new build of the application, you can run the automated test you recorded by playing back your script on the new build. To execute your script on the new build, you must change the name of the application in your script. (You would not need to do this on a development project; do it here to simulate getting a new build of the application.)
    - Lesson 7: Use the Comparator to update a verification point
      You can use the Verification Point Comparator to compare verification point data after you play back a script. Verification points provide a baseline of the properties or data of an object. If the verification point fails on a subsequent build of an application, you have found a defect or an intentional change to the application. If the change is intentional, you can update the information in the verification point so that the test continues to be valid for future builds.
    - Lesson 8: Update the object map
      In this lesson, you will fix the object recognition warning by using the object map. You will also use a regular expression for more flexible object recognition.
    - Lesson 9: Change the recognition preferences
      In the previous exercise you saw how you can update the recognition properties of an object when they change. Another factor you can change is the recognition weights that HCL OneTest™ UI uses during playback. You use the recognition preferences to set this. The label object that you tested with the second verification point can demonstrate how this works.
    - Lesson 10: Use regular expressions
      The last thing you will do using the object map is convert a property value to a regular expression. In this case, the regular expression provides more flexibility in the object recognition.
  - Create a data-driven functional test
    In this tutorial, you will learn how to data-drive a test using a variety of realistic data to test the application with HCL OneTest™ UI data-driver wizard.
  - Test Adobe Flex application
    This tutorial walks you through the steps to enable your Adobe Flex application, and test the enabled Flex application from a local test computer using HCL OneTest™ UI. The steps are based on the roles that Flex developers and testers perform.

Lesson 1: Set up HCL OneTest™ UI

HCL OneTest™ UI provides a Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) that is installed and enabled for testing Java™ applications. You use that JRE for the tutorial. When you want to test your own Java™ or HTML applications, you must run the enabler and configure your environments and applications. For more information on these set-up tasks, see Getting Started with HCL OneTest™ UI. For now you do not need to do anything to use the preconfigured JRE to continue.

Start HCL OneTest™ UI and then perform the following tasks before you record your first test script.

Setting logging options

HCL OneTest™ UI provides several logging options. We will use the HTML log.

To verify that this is the logging option you have set, click Tools > Options.
In the left pane of the Options dialog box, expand Functional Test, then Playback, and click Logging.
Select html as theLog type
Click OK.

This setting opens the HTML log automatically after you play back a script.

Create a Functional Test project

Before you start recording, you must create a Functional Test project.

In the product menu, click File > New > Functional Test Project.
Under Name, type FTtutorial (no spaces).
Under Location, type C:\FTproject. HCL OneTest™ UI creates this directory.
If the source control option is available, do not select Add the project to Source Control.
If the associate project option is available, do not select Associate the Functional Test Project with current Project.
Click OK.

The FTtutorial project is now visible in the Solution Explorer, which is the right pane in the HCL OneTest™ UI window.

Advance to Lesson 2: Record a script.