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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ UI software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integrations in Web UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
Testing with Rational® Team Concert™
You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ (formerly known as Rational Team Concert) eclipse client.
Tracking defects with Rational® Team Concert™
You can submit defects to Rational® Team Concert™ from HCL OneTest™ PerformanceHCL OneTest UI. By default, the test log editor uses Bugzilla as the defect tracking site. You must configure the product to use Rational Team Concert for defect tracking.

Rational® Functional Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known problems in and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Getting Started Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Tutorials
  This section contains the tutorials which explains the main features of HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Samples
  This section describes about the sample project which can be used with HCL OneTest™ UI to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ UI software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
  - Installing
    In this section, you will learn about two ways to install the product. In the first approach, you use an executable file to directly install the product in an easy manner. In the second approach, you download and install IBM® Installation Manager and then use that tool to install the product.
  - Starting HCL OneTest™ UI from the command line
    You can start HCL OneTest™ UI from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
  - Integrations in Web UI Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
    - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
      You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with Rational® Functional Tester.
    - Testing with Ant
      You can use Ant to run compound tests and Web UI tests from the command-line interface.
    - Integration with Azure DevOps for UI tests
      When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in Rational® Functional Tester and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Rational Functional Tester by using the IBM Rational Test Workbench extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
    - EGit integration
      EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system. You can store your test assets in the Git repository and use EGit for the daily version control operations.
    - Testing with Rational® Team Concert™
      You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Rational® Team Concert™ (formerly known as Rational Team Concert) eclipse client.
      - Tracking defects with Rational® Team Concert™
        You can submit defects to Rational® Team Concert™ from HCL OneTest™ PerformanceHCL OneTest UI. By default, the test log editor uses Bugzilla as the defect tracking site. You must configure the product to use Rational Team Concert for defect tracking.
    - Integration with
      You can integrate (formerly known as IBM® Rational® Quality Manager) with HCL OneTest™ UI or HCL OneTest Performance to initiate test runs from .
    - Integration with Jenkins
      You can use the Rational® Functional Tester Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
    - Testing with Maven
      Starting with v9.2, you can use the Maven plug-in to run Functional Test scripts. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM). You can use the Maven plug-in that is provided to run tests as part of your Maven build.
    - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
      You can integrate Rational® Functional Tester with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
    - Testing with HCL OneTest™ API
      Starting from V9.5.0, you can use HCL OneTest™ API extension to execute Integration tests. In HCL OneTest UI, you can either import the projects from HCL OneTest API or manage them from HCL OneTest UI by establishing the connection between the products. In HCL OneTest UI, you can create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
    - Testing with UrbanCode Deploy
      With the HCL OneTest™ UI plugin for UrbanCode™ Deploy, you can automate the execution of tests and compound tests.
  - Integrations in Functional Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes how to automate the playback of the tests by using different methods such as Docker, IBM Cloud Private, Jenkins and so on. The test results can be pushed to HCL Quality Server.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
- Troubleshooting
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about HCL OneTest™ UI.
- All Guides (PDF)
  You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester as a PDF file.
- 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 the product documentation.

Tracking defects with Rational® Team Concert™

You can submit defects to Rational® Team Concert™ from HCL OneTest™ PerformanceHCL OneTest™ UI. By default, the test log editor uses Bugzilla as the defect tracking site. You must configure the product to use Rational® Team Concert™ for defect tracking.

Procedure

Click Window > Preferences > Test > Test Log Editor.
The Test Log Editor preferences window opens.

Specify the URL of Rational® Team Concert™ server in the Submit URL, Search URL, and Open URL fields.

Contact the administrator of the Rational® Team Concert™ server for more information.

The following are the example of URLs, where the name of the Rational® Team Concert™ server is evm.example.com and the name of the project is projectname:

Table 1. Example of EVM Server URL
Field names	Field values
Submit URL	https://ewm.example.com:9443/jazz/web/projects/projectname#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.newWorkItem
Search URL	https://ewm.example.com:9443/jazz/web/projects/projectname#action=jazz.viewPage&id=com.ibm.team.workitem
Open URL	https://ewm.example.com::9443/jazz/web/projects/projectname#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=

Note: You must change the URLs, if there is change in name of the Rational® Team Concert™ server.