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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.
Technical Tester Guide
Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
Creating and running performance tests
This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
Creating performance tests
A performance test is created within a HCL OneTest™ API project.
Configuring probes
The Probes tab (on the Config tab) is used to configure which probes to run during the test, and where to run them.

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    Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible for performance testing. This guide lists all such topics.
    - Creating and running performance tests
      This topic describes how to create, configure, and run performance tests.
      - Before creating performance tests
        Agents (HCL OneTest™ API Agent) are required on the computers that will run HCL OneTest API tests and the probes that monitor the systems.
      - Creating performance tests
        A performance test is created within a HCL OneTest™ API project.
        Execution
        Select the root of the performance test in the configuration tree to display its configuration details, as shown below.
        Configuring references
        You can configure a performance test to run scenarios, which are collections of stubs, that are available on the HCL Quality Server domain associated with your HCL OneTest™ API project.
        Configuring probes
        The Probes tab (on the Config tab) is used to configure which probes to run during the test, and where to run them.
        Adding distributed tests
        You can add distributed tests to a performance test.
        Log Measurement action (optional)
        With the Log Measurement action, you can periodically record custom data, that is, data that is not provided by test engines and probes, as a performance test runs. The recorded data is stored in a database and is used to generate performance charts. Each item of data that is recorded is called a counter. Attributes are used to identify the counters. A UTC time stamp is stored with each set of counters.
      - Performance tests
        Performance tests are executed in HCL OneTest™ API in the same way and from the same perspectives as any other test resource.
      - Troubleshooting: Running a performance test with a MySQL database
        You can troubleshoot an issue that you encounter while you run a performance test with a MySQL database.
    - View test results
      This topic describes how to work with __PTS_RR_NAME__ charts in the Results Gallery perspective.
    - Deploying probes
      A HCL OneTest™ API probe measures variables from a particular component in the system and reports back its findings for processing and storage.
  - Integration Tester Guide
    Typically, a user with the Integration Tester role is also responsible 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 tester is also interested in reports, results and statistics for their testing. This guide lists all such topics.
- Test Manager Guide
  Typically, a user with the Test Manager role is responsible for certain tasks that includes tracking the quality of the application. This guide lists all such topics.
- 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
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Configuring probes

The Probes tab (on the Config tab) is used to configure which probes to run during the test, and where to run them.

About this task

Probes are started by agents, so the local and/or remote agents must be configured in the performance test before the probes (see Before creating performance tests).

The available probes are determined by the components that are used in the HCL OneTest™ API tests that have been added to the performance test. For example, if the distributed test references a TIBCO EMS transport, the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service probe will be available.

Note: It is not possible to create a performance test with only probes (that is, no actual tests). Always ensure that you configure at least one distributed test (background or load-generating) that executes an existing HCL OneTest™ API test. For information about this, refer to Adding distributed tests.

To configure probes:

Procedure

By default, probes are not enabled initially after adding HCL OneTest™ API tests to the background or load-generating tests.
To enable one or more probes, select the check box next to the required probe.
Note: For more information about available probes and their functionality, including error handling, refer to Deploying probes.