HCL OneTest™ API installation topology

Understand how the HCL OneTest™ API components are installed in a typical installation topology. This topology shows the installation of HCL OneTest™ API and HCL Quality Server. It also shows how you can extend your performance testing and HCL OneTest™ Virtualization capabilities by installing the __PTS_RR_NAME__ and Virtualization Server agents.

Topology diagram for a HCL OneTest API installation
Table 1.
Component When do I need it? Where do I install it?
HCL OneTest™ API (client) To create, modify, and run service tests, virtualization tests and performance tests.

Additional information: 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. To build tests, enter 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 HCL OneTest™ API to provide on-demand virtualized test environments that can support all phases of the test development lifecycle.

 Any number of desktop computers or on a server. Install HCL OneTest™ API on a server to run tests non-interactively, such as regression packs or scheduled tests, or as part of a Continuous Integration (CI) environment such as Jenkins.
HCL Quality Server To publish and store HCL OneTest™ Virtualization stubs and to schedule the execution of test suites.

HCL Quality Server provides a central registration point for the proxies so that multiple instances of HCL OneTest™ API can find and communicate with the proxies.

Additional information: HCL Quality Server 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. For more information, see HCL OneTest API tool packages.

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HCL OneTest™ API agents.

The following installation modes are available for different test requirements:

  • HCL OneTest™ API Agent to virtualize services, execute stubs for continuous testing, run performance tests and probes, and enable integration with IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
  • __PTS_RR_NAME__ agent mode to run performance tests and probes and to enable integration with IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
  • Probe mode to run probes to collect statistical test data and to enable integration with IBM® Rational® Quality Manager
 For HCL OneTest™ Virtualization, to run performance tests and probes, and to enable integration with Rational® Quality Manager. Any remote computers that are to be used for performance testing and HCL OneTest™ Virtualization.
Note: From version 8.7.1 onwards, the Rational® Integration Tester Platform Pack component does not exist. All the technology-specific tool packages and the HTTP/TCP proxy components are now available with HCL Quality Server. For more information, see product tool packages.