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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.
Integration Tester Reference
This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
Working in non-GUI mode
Many test actions can be completed in non-GUI mode by using the command line, Ant, or REST interfaces.
Managing environments
Locking a HCL Quality Server environment prevents other users from changing the state of that environment, for example, starting or stopping stubs.
Locking an environment by using an Ant task
You can lock an environment by using the HCL Quality Server Ant tasks.

Rational® Integration Tester
- 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.
- 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.
  - Integration Tester Reference
    This guide provides the topics to help the Integration tester use the product by using the user interface, commands or scripts. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
    - Integration 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. This guide is intended for Integration testers.
    - Extending HCL OneTest™ API functionality by using custom functions
      You can add more calculations and operations to tests by using the HCL OneTest™ API custom function class. HCL OneTest API custom function is a Java™ class that extends the com.ghc.ghTester.expressions function.
    - Working in non-GUI mode
      Many test actions can be completed in non-GUI mode by using the command line, Ant, or REST interfaces.
      - Command-line interfaces
        HCL OneTest™ API command-line client is available in HCL OneTest API 8.0.1 or later.
      - Ant tasks
        Support for the environment, scenario and stub Ant tasks is supplied with HCL Quality Server.
      - REST services
        Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. When used in conjunction with HCL Quality Server, HTTP methods (such as GET and POST) are mapped to actions on domains, environments, scenarios, stubs and other resource types.
      - Running tests
        Use HCL OneTest™ API to run tests with command-line and Ant APIs.
      - Managing test results
        Use HCL Quality Server to manage test results with command-line APIs.
      - Managing domains
        You can create, list, update, and delete domains with the HCL Quality Server REST API.
      - Managing environments
        Locking a HCL Quality Server environment prevents other users from changing the state of that environment, for example, starting or stopping stubs.
        Locking an environment by using the command line
        You can lock an environment by using the HCL OneTest™ API command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
        Unlocking an environment by using the command line
        You can unlock an environment by using the HCL OneTest™ API command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
        Deleting an environment by using the command line
        You can delete an environment and its associated artifacts by using the HCL OneTest™ API command line. This option is useful in situations where Ant is not available.
        Creating an environment by using an Ant task
        You can create an environment by using the IBM® Rational® Test Control Panel Ant task.
        Deleting an environment by using an Ant task
        You can delete an environment and its associated artifacts by using the HCL Quality Server Ant tasks.
        Locking an environment by using an Ant task
        You can lock an environment by using the HCL Quality Server Ant tasks.
        Unlocking an environment by using an Ant task
        You can unlock an environment by using the HCL Quality Server Ant tasks.
        REST services
        Representational state transfer (REST) is a simple stateless architecture that generally runs over HTTP. When used in conjunction with HCL Quality Server, HTTP methods (such as GET and POST) are mapped to actions on domains, environments, scenarios, stubs and other resource types.
      - Managing scenarios
        Use HCL Quality Server to manage scenarios with command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
      - Managing stubs
        You can manage stubs by using the command-line, Ant, and REST APIs.
  - Technical Tester Guide
    Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
  - Integration Tester Guide (Service Virtualization)
    This guide describes the tasks that you can perform for using virtual services or stubs to simulate parts of an environment if the real services are not yet available or because they are difficult or expensive to use. This guide is intended for Integration Testers.
- 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.

Locking an environment by using an Ant task

You can lock an environment by using the HCL Quality Server Ant tasks.

Here is an example syntax:

<taskdef name="lockEnvironment" classname="com.ghc.ghTester.ant.LockEnvironment" classpathref="tasklib" />

<lockEnvironment domain="<Domain name>" environment="<Environment name>"
username="<User name>" reason="<Reason>" duration="<Number of minutes>" serverUrl="https://Host name or IP address:5443/RTCP/" />

The following example usage files for the Ant tasks are available in the AntClient.zip package that can be downloaded from HCL Quality Server. For more information, see HCL OneTest™ API tool packages.

create-update-delete-environment.xml
lock-unlock-environment.xml
publish-stubs.xml
start-stop-scenario.xml
start-stop-stub.xml

The following table lists the attributes that you can use with the lockEnvironment Ant task for locking an environment.

Table 1. List of available attributes
Attribute	Description	Required
`serverUrl`	URL of the HCL Quality Server	Yes
`domain`	Domain name	Yes
`environment`	Environment name	Yes
`username`	The user name under which to perform the operation.	No
`reason`	The reason for locking the environment.	No
`duration`	The number of minutes that you expect to keep the environment locked.	No.
`force`	Attempt to first unlock the environment if another user has the lock (flag).	No, default is false.
`securityToken`	The value of the security token to use for authentication with HCL Quality Server when domain security is enabled (optional). For more information, see Domain level security.	No, default is to send no token.
`haltOnFailure`	Set to true to fail the Ant script if the environment fails to lock (flag).	No, default is false.
`failureProperty`	The name of a property that is set in the event of a failure.	No
`waitFor`	If the environment is already locked, to specify the number of seconds that the task should wait for to allow the environment to be unlocked. If the environment gets unlocked during this period, the task locks the environment. A value of 0 indicates the task to wait indefinitely.	No

Error codes

For details of any error codes, see Exit codes for Command-line client and Ant client.