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This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL OneTest™ API.
HCL OneTest™ API overview
You can use HCL OneTest™ API to create, modify, and run service tests, and performance tests.

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- Release Notes
  This document contains information about What's new, installation, known issues, and contact information of IBM Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ API.
- Getting Started
  This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL OneTest™ API.
  - HCL OneTest™ API overview
    You can use HCL OneTest™ API to create, modify, and run service tests, and performance tests.
    - Interactive Guides
      The home page contains several interactive guides that walks you, step by step, through some of the common tasks. The home page also contains links to some of the information resources that are available on the web.
    - Task flow: Basic test scenario
      A diagram is provided to show you a basic task flow that can help you get started with some of the features of the tool to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
    - Task flow: Advanced test data scenario
      A diagram is provided to show you an advanced task flow that can help you get started with resources, environments, schemas, and test suites to test the system. After you configure the complete setup for testing, you can do the tasks in sequence to test the application.
  - Testing methodology
    By following four basic guidelines, you can incorporate HCL OneTest™ API into your testing methodology. These guidelines drive efficient and expedient integration testing, and they can be applied to your testing process and infrastructure requirements.
  - Service-oriented architecture (SOA) testing
    A SOA consists of business processes that are implemented by linking individual services. The linking can be done programmatically or with tools based on Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). SOA testing can be challenging because there is no GUI; the focus is on testing interfaces and services.
  - Getting started with testing
    You can start using HCL OneTest™ API by completing the preliminary tasks such as creating and running a test, creating and running a stub, recording an HTTP proxy, and running a stub in a Docker container.
  - HCL Quality Server overview
    HCL OneTest™ Virtualization stubs designed in HCL OneTest API are published to HCL Quality Server, which holds them in a repository.
  - HCL OneTest™ API accessibility features
    Users who have a physical disability, such as limited vision, can review the available accessibility features to use HCL OneTest™ API.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ API. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as configuration and integration of the product. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Tester Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for testing various domains, technologies, and applications. To enable testing, you must configure and enable the environment for testing.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for tracking the quality of the application. This guide is intended for Test Managers.
- Troubleshooting HCL OneTest™ API
  While working with HCL OneTest™ API, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
- HCL OneTest™ API reference
  HCL OneTest™ API is a scripting-free environment for developing tests for service-oriented architecture (SOA) messaging and business process integration projects. Tests can be built by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
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HCL OneTest™ API overview

You can use HCL OneTest™ API to create, modify, and run service tests, and performance tests.

These are the components of HCL OneTest™ API and can be installed with the HCL OneTest™ Studio product:

HCL OneTest™ API
HCL Quality Server

Note: From Test Workbench version 8.7 onwards, the HCL OneTest™ API Platform Pack component does not exist. All the technology-specific tool packages are now available with the HCL Quality Server. For more information about the tool packages, see HCL OneTest™ API tool packages.

HCL OneTest™ API

With HCL OneTest™ API, you get a scripting-free environment for developing tests for SOA messaging and business process integration projects. You can build tests by recording existing system behaviors or from requirements, by entering the data to send and the data that is expected in return. You can also create virtual services to remove test dependencies and enable earlier testing. Virtual services can be deployed by Service Virtualization to provide on-demand virtualized test environments that can support all phases of the test development lifecycle.

HCL Quality Server

The HCL Quality Server is a server-based web application providing a central repository for virtualized services. The server allows you to use virtual services published with HCL OneTest™ API to create, share, and deploy virtualized test environments in HCL OneTest™ Virtualization.

It also contains technology-specific components used by HCL OneTest™ API for recording SOA message conversations, HTTP(S) and JDBC traffic, and for monitoring middleware systems under test with minimal reconfiguration of client applications