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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ UI software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integrations in UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
Testing with Azure DevOps for UI tests
When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL OneTest™ UI and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest UI by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ UI software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation
  You can find information about the installation of HCL OneTest™ UI.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL OneTest™ UI is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Starting HCL OneTest™ UI from the command line
  You can start HCL OneTest™ UI from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Software configuration management
  You can integrateHCL OneTest™ UI with the software configuration management systems to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
- Integrations in UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugins that are required to integrate Jenkins, Ant, HCL® Launch, and UrbanCode™ Deploy with HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use Ant to run compound tests and Web UI tests from the command-line interface.
  - Testing with Azure DevOps for UI tests
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL OneTest™ UI and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest UI by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
    - Prerequisites for Azure DevOps Integration
      Before you integrate Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest™ UI by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension, you must have completed certain tasks.
    - Task flow for integrating Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest™ UI
      The table shows the task flow for integrating Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest™ UI by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension. You must perform these tasks in sequence as listed in the following table. The table also provides you the links to the information about the tasks.
    - Installing the HCL OneTest Studio extension
      You must install the HCL OneTest Studio extension in your Azure DevOps organization before you use the extension to run tests for your application in an Azure DevOps pipeline. The HCL OneTest Studio extension supports running of tests created in HCL OneTest™ UI.
    - Running UI tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
      After you create the tests in HCL OneTest™ UI for the application that you are testing, and after you install the HCL OneTest Studio extension in your organization, you can run the tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.
  - Testing with EGit
    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 a project repository of HCL OneTest™ UI 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 UI.
  - Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) Eclipse client.
  - Testing with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with HCL OneTest™ UI to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Testing with Jenkins
    You can use the HCL OneTest™ UI - UI Test 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).
  - Testing with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ UI with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
  - Testing with HCL OneTest™ API
    You can use HCL OneTest™ API extension to run API tests from HCL OneTest UI. You can either import the projects from HCL OneTest API or manage them from HCL OneTest UI by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Testing with HCL® Launch
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ UI with HCL® Launch to run tests as a Process from HCL Launch.
  - Testing with UrbanCode Deploy
    With the HCL OneTest™ UI plugin for UrbanCode™ Deploy, you can automate the execution of tests and compound tests.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.

Testing with Azure DevOps for UI tests

When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL OneTest™ UI and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest™ UI by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.

Prerequisites

Before you integrate Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest™ UI, you must have completed certain tasks. See Prerequisites for Azure DevOps Integration.

Overview

You can use the HCL OneTest Studio extension that enables you to select any type of test created in HCL OneTest™ UI that you can add to your task for the job in the Azure DevOps pipelines.