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Getting Started
This guide provides an overview and describes the tasks to get you started with HCL OneTest™ API.
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.

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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.
  - 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.
    - Domains and environments
      You can use domains to group and manage test assets. Within a domain, you can have one or more environments, which can use to group test variables and test tags.
    - Deploying stubs
      For the stub to access the correct data source, you must publish each stub to the correct domain and environment that is the one that contains that stubs data source.
    - Publishing several versions of the same stub
      During testing, you might discover that you require several versions of a stub and you might not want to override the previous version.
    - Running stubs
      When several versions of a stub are deployed, it is possible to run all versions of them in the same environment.
    - Sharing and managing stubs
      If the purpose of a particular HCL OneTest™ API project is to develop and test a component that requires virtualization (stubbing), that project must own that stub but it can be shared across other projects that need to use it.
  - 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
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for product documentation.

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 Quality Server can schedule the execution of test suites on a single or recurring schedule basis.

Consider the following points:

Stubs are run by an Agent. Make sure that you set up the Library Manager of HCL OneTest™ API Agent to point to the relevant libraries required to run your stubs. For example, for an IBM® WebSphere® MQ stub, Library Manager can reference the WebSphere® MQ client JAR files.
Published stubs are stored on the computer where HCL Quality Server is installed, so long-term disk space requirements depend on the size and number of published stubs.
HCL Quality Server contains information about all deployed stubs and whether they are running. This is viewable by all team members, so each team member can deduce enough information about each stub running in HCL Quality Server. Add descriptive labels and ensure that version numbering of stubs is implemented correctly.