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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.
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.
Recording a Windows test
You can record a Windows test to capture the actions that you perform on Windows desktop applications and on the Add-ins in Microsoft Office applications. The actions are captured as test steps in Windows tests.
Supported Windows UI controls
HCL OneTest™ UI supports the testing of various standard Windows UI controls.

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.
  - 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.
    - Prerequisites for testing Windows desktop applications
      You can find information about the prerequisite conditions that you must satisfy before you can test Windows desktop applications.
    - Configuring a Windows application
      In HCL OneTest™ UI, you can test the native Windows desktop applications. To test the Windows applications, you must first configure the Windows applications in the common web interface.
    - Recording a Windows test
      You can record a Windows test to capture the actions that you perform on Windows desktop applications and on the Add-ins in Microsoft Office applications. The actions are captured as test steps in Windows tests.
      - Supported Windows UI controls
        HCL OneTest™ UI supports the testing of various standard Windows UI controls.
      - Supported keyboard and mouse actions
        HCL OneTest™ UI supports the basic keyboard and mouse actions that you can perform while recording a Windows test.
    - Editing a Windows test
      You can edit the test by using the test editor. You can edit a Windows test by modifying the test steps, adding verification points, and so on.
  - 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.

Supported Windows UI controls

HCL OneTest™ UI supports the testing of various standard Windows UI controls.

The following Windows UI controls are supported for a Windows test:

Window
Pane
Title Bar
Menu Item
Image
Button
Drop-down list
List Item
Group
Text
Scroll Bar
Hyperlink
Edit
Tab
Tab view
Thumb
Combo box
Menu bar
Tree
Tree item
Radio button
Check box
Status bar
Slider
Document
Table
Header
Header item
Data item
Custom

Note: When you record Windows tests, although you can successfully capture the different types of drop-down lists or combo boxes, certain list controls might not be captured.

The list controls, which are spanned from the application under test, do not exist as part of the application and they are not captured correctly.