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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.
HCL OneTest™ API overview
This section provides an overview of HCL OneTest™ API, including information about projects and files, the HCL OneTest API user interface, environments, and project settings and preferences.
HCL OneTest™ API projects
When you launch HCL OneTest™ API, a welcome dialog is displayed that you can use to create a new project or open an existing one. All work is organized into individual projects, similar to a development IDE. This organization allows for simpler organization of complex test scenarios.
Switching users on a project
If an HCL OneTest™ API project was created or configured to use permissions, you can log into the project as a different user.

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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.
- 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.
  - HCL OneTest™ API overview
    This section provides an overview of HCL OneTest™ API, including information about projects and files, the HCL OneTest API user interface, environments, and project settings and preferences.
    - HCL OneTest™ API projects
      When you launch HCL OneTest™ API, a welcome dialog is displayed that you can use to create a new project or open an existing one. All work is organized into individual projects, similar to a development IDE. This organization allows for simpler organization of complex test scenarios.
      - Project settings
        You can view the project settings by selecting Project > Project Settings from the main HCL OneTest™ API menu. You can view and edit the properties for project, server settings, date formats, change management, quality management, permission settings, permissions, results publishers, and APM preferences. You can also create an email publisher or switch users on a project.
      - Switching users on a project
        If an HCL OneTest™ API project was created or configured to use permissions, you can log into the project as a different user.
      - Exporting project resources from a project
        You might want to share failed project resources from a large regression project with other testers and developers, take working project resources from your own draft project and import to a new clean project, or share project resources with support to troubleshoot a problem. To share project resources, you can use the Export Resources wizard.
      - Importing project resources into a project
        You want to use project resources that a tester shared with you. You can use the Import Resources wizard to import the archive file provided by the tester into your current HCL OneTest™ API project.
    - HCL OneTest™ API workbench
      The main window of HCL OneTest™ API is a workbench that contains several dockable windows. These windows are organized in a logical way, providing an intuitive, easy-to-use central workspace. You can view the workbench from one of several perspectives: Architecture School, Recording Studio, Test Factory, Test Lab, and Results Gallery.
    - Test artifact documentation
      All HCL OneTest™ API test artifacts (for example, tests, suites, messages, test templates) contain a Documentation tab in their respective editors.
    - Tags for dynamic data access
      Tags are like data variables in HCL OneTest™ API, consisting of a name and a default value. Tags can be used throughout the application to allow for dynamic data access. Tags can be used in most fields within HCL OneTest API (for example, message headers, body elements, function definitions).
    - Environment properties, bindings, and tasks
      Environments are typically used to create configurations for different parts of a product workflow (for example, Development, QA, UAT).
    - Test cycles overview and management
      A test cycle is a container for tests and test suites that spans multiple users and projects. The result of each test that is executed inside a Test Cycle is persisted to the database, regardless of whether the test is inside a suite or not. To work with test cycles, you use the Test Cycle Manager window.
    - Changing preferences
      Much of HCL OneTest™ API behavior can be customized in the application preferences.
    - Refreshing a project
      When you are working in a project in HCL OneTest™ API and you click Project > Refresh to refresh the project, the Save Resources dialog box is displayed that prompts you to save or discard unsaved changes in the editors that are open.
    - Creating an email publisher
      You can set up an email as a result publisher.
  - Architecture School
    Use the Architecture School perspective to build a system under test by using the logical, physical, and synchronization views. You can also use this perspective to manage the schemas available in your project.
  - Recording Studio
    With HCL OneTest™ API, you can record events (messages or database interactions) sent to and from the system under test. Use Recording Studio to control what parts of the system should be recorded. These parts could be specific parts of the system infrastructure or specific services using that infrastructure. You can then use the recorded events as a source of tests and other interactions with the system. In Recording Studio, you can record the traffic over a number of different transports.
  - Test Factory
    The Test Factory perspective is one of the main areas in HCL OneTest™ API. You can create all the tests and the required artifacts/data to support them.
  - Test Lab
    You use the Test Lab to execute test assets, repair tests, and open test assets for editing directly from this perspective. You can execute all of the tests, test suites, and stubs that are created in Test Factory.
  - Results Gallery
    You use the Results Gallery perspective to view an execution summary and detailed coverage, error, and performance reports for executed test suites and for test cases that were executed within a suite or as part of a test cycle.
  - Messages
    HCL OneTest™ API can publish and subscribe to messages as part of a test. A message normally consists of two parts: a header and a body. The header usually adheres to a predefined logical construction, while the structure of the body can be more arbitrary.
  - Schemas
    HCL OneTest™ API can handle many types of content. For the product to be able to interpret this variety of content types, it must associate a content format description, or schema with the content.
  - Database resources, connections, and bindings
    HCL OneTest™ API can interact with any database that supports connectivity through the JDBC specification. These interactions can be used to extract or update data where necessary, and test data sets can be taken directly from database table content.
  - Identity stores and SSL
    An identity store can group a collection of one or more certificates that can be used in HCL OneTest™ API to validate and authenticate connections that use SSL. After you create an identity store, you can use it to enable SSL communications in various messaging transports.
  - Scripting within tests and stubs
    You can use scripts in HCL OneTest™ API that include the HCL OneTest API legacy scripting language, ECMAScript (such as JavaScript™), or any third-party scripting language that you install.
  - External tools
    HCL OneTest™ API is primarily GUI-based, but you can also run or view tests, suites, and stubs outside of the HCL OneTest API.
  - Test actions
    Actions are the building blocks of a test. A test consists of a series of steps and each step is an action. Actions can be defined for tests and stubs.
  - Formatting and parsing date-time patterns
    For some fields in HCL OneTest™ API, you can define patterns for date-time formatting. Pattern letters are repeated, as their number determines the exact presentation of the date-time information that they represent.
  - The Add Numbers service
    The Add Numbers service, included with HCL OneTest™ API, provides a simple way to generate messages that you can observe with topology discovery or capture in Recording Studio.
- 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.

Switching users on a project

If an HCL OneTest™ API project was created or configured to use permissions, you can log into the project as a different user.

Procedure

Click Project > Switch user on the menu bar.
The Project Logon window is displayed.
Enter a valid domain user/password combination, or enable the "Logon as project administrator" option and enter the admin password, then click OK.
Note: If you are using HCL OneTest™ API 8.5.1.1 or later and HCL Quality Server 8.5.1.1 or later, and domain-level security is enabled, and the server is the authorization realm for your project, you can enter the user name and password of a user that has access to the domain selected on the Server Settings tab of the Project Settings window.