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Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
Tests in the UI Test perspective
When you develop web applications, Windows-based applications, or mobile applications, you can use HCL OneTest™ UI to create functional tests for these applications. You must first record the tests and then use HCL OneTest UI to run the tests before you can view the test results.
Mobile tests
You can test the Android or iOS mobile applications by recording and playing back mobile tests on Android devices or emulators, iOS mobile devices or simulators by using HCL OneTest™ UI.
Testing iOS applications
You can test the native and hybrid iOS applications in HCL OneTest™ UI by recording and playing back mobile tests on computers that run on Mac operating systems.

Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
- Tests in the UI Test perspective
  When you develop web applications, Windows-based applications, or mobile applications, you can use HCL OneTest™ UI to create functional tests for these applications. You must first record the tests and then use HCL OneTest UI to run the tests before you can view the test results.
  - Web UI tests
    You can test web applications in HCL OneTest™ UI by using the industry-standard browsers such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. You can record Web UI tests and then play back the tests to evaluate the test results. You can also test the web applications on dual monitors when you extend the display of your computer to a secondary monitor.
  - Mobile tests
    You can test the Android or iOS mobile applications by recording and playing back mobile tests on Android devices or emulators, iOS mobile devices or simulators by using HCL OneTest™ UI.
    - Testing Android applications
      You can automate the testing of Android mobile applications in HCL OneTest™ UI by recording and playing back the recorded mobile tests.
    - Testing iOS applications
      You can test the native and hybrid iOS applications in HCL OneTest™ UI by recording and playing back mobile tests on computers that run on Mac operating systems.
      - Prerequisite tasks for recording iOS tests
        You can test the native and hybrid iOS applications in HCL OneTest™ UI by recording and playing back mobile tests on computers that run on Mac operating systems.
      - Configuring the iOS applications
        In HCL OneTest™ UI, you can test the native and hybrid iOS applications on Mac operating systems. To test an iOS application, you must first configure the iOS application.
      - Recording mobile tests for iOS applications
        You can record a mobile test to capture the actions that you perform on iOS applications. The actions are captured as test steps to a mobile test recording.
    - Editing a mobile test
      You can edit a mobile test by using the test editor. You can edit a mobile test by modifying the test steps, adding verification points, and so on.
  - Windows tests
    You can configure the Windows applications to record and play back tests on the Windows desktop applications. You can also test the Windows applications on dual monitors when you extend the display of your computer to a secondary monitor.
  - SAP tests
    When you record a test, the test creation wizard records your interactions with the SAP server, generates a test from the recording, and opens the test for editing. You can record tests from the SAP GUI. You can also record SAP batch input tests that can be used to produce a heavy load on the server while minimizing the processing requirements for virtual testers.
  - Selenium or Appium tests
    You can manage your Selenium or Appium Java™ tests from the UI Test perspective, where you can import and modify the tests, add them to compound tests, and run them. You can also create new Appium Java tests from the Perfecto perspective on Windows™ and Mac OS, add the tests to compound tests, and run them. Perfecto is not currently supported on Linux®.
  - Compound tests
    You can create compound tests to help you organize smaller tests into scenarios that can then be run end-to-end. You can combine tests from different extensions to achieve end-to-end flow.
  - Accelerated Functional Tests
    When you create Web UI, mobile, or Windows tests, you can use the Accelerated Functional Test (AFT) feature in HCL OneTest™ UI to distribute test effort during the play back of the recorded tests.
  - Keywords
    In HCL OneTest™ UI, you can record and then associate Test Workbench tests with the keywords that are created in IBM® Rational® Quality Manager. The keywords are used in manual tests in Rational Quality Manager. When you run a manual test that contains a keyword associated with a HCL OneTest Studio test, the Test Workbench test is run on the workstation where the adapter has been started.
- Tests in the Functional Test perspective
  When you develop Java, HTML, or Terminal-based applications, you can use HCL OneTest™ UI to create traditional functional tests for these applications. You must first record the tests and then use HCL OneTest UI to run the tests before you can view the test results.
- Extending the UI Test perspective with custom Java™ code
  You can use custom code to extend the default Web UI testing capabilities. You can write custom Java™ code and call the code from the test. You can also specify that results from the tests that are affected by your custom code to be included in reports.
- Extending the Functional Test perspective
  You can use custom code to extend the default functional testing capabilities. You can write custom code and call the code from the test. You can also specify that results from the tests that are affected by your custom code to be included in reports.
- Extending the functionality in the Visual Studio IDE
  These topics describe various ways that you can customize HCL OneTest™ UI or use the application programming interface (API) to extend HCL OneTest UI functionality.
- Experimental Features
  HCL OneTest™ UI contains a set of pre-releases that enable you to test various experimental features. These experimental features, while still in progress, are introduced early in the release to seek your feedback on its overall functionality and performance. You can play around with these capabilities before they are made available and supported as a general feature in an upcoming release.

Testing iOS applications

You can test the native and hybrid iOS applications in HCL OneTest™ UI by recording and playing back mobile tests on computers that run on Mac operating systems.

The following table lists the tasks that you must perform to record and run tests:


Tasks	Description
Prerequisite tasks for recording iOS tests	You must complete the prerequisite tasks before you record a test for iOS mobile applications.
Configuring the iOS applications	You must first configure the iOS application in HCL OneTest™ UI to record a mobile test.
Recording mobile tests for iOS applications	After you install the Xcode and the command line tools for Xcode, you can connect the iOS device or simulator to your computer, you can then record the user interface and hardware actions in the iOS application that you want to test. You can create a single test or multiple tests by recording actions that you perform for different functions on the mobile application.
Creating a compound test	You can add multiple tests to a Compound Test. You can also include the test variables or a variables file to the Compound Test.
Creating an AFT suite for mobile tests	You can create AFT suites and play them back on the following computers or device clouds: Computer that runs HCL OneTest™ UI. Remote agent computer. BitBar Cloud. BrowserStack Cloud. Perfecto Mobile Cloud. pCloudy Cloud.
Running mobile tests for iOS mobile applications	You can play back the recorded mobile test on iOS devices or simulators.
Running compound tests for iOS mobile applications	You can play back compound tests on iOS devices or simulators.
Viewing Unified reports	You can view the test result that is displayed as a unified report after the playing back of a mobile test.
Troubleshooting issues when testing iOS applications	If you encounter any issues when you are testing iOS applications, you can refer to the problems and their resolutions.