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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test UI (Test 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 UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Web UI Test perspective.
Testing with HCL® Launch
You can integrate HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) with HCL® HCL Launch to run tests as a Process from Launch.
Installing the plugin on HCL® Launch
You must install the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) Launch plugin to run tests from HCL® Launch.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Test UI (Test 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.
- Installation
  You can find information about the installation of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
- License management
  Licensing for HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Starting DevOps Test UI from the command line
  You can start HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) from the desktop environment or a command-line interface.
- Software configuration management
  You can integrateHCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) with the software configuration management systems to maintain an auditable and repeatable history of your organization's test assets.
- Integrations in 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 plugins that are required to integrate Jenkins, Ant, HCL® Launch, and IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy with HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use Ant to run compound tests and Web UI tests from the command-line interface.
  - Testing 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 HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with Test UI by using the HCL DevOps Test Workbench (Test Workbench) extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - Testing with EGit
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - Configuration of test runs as a GitHub Actions Workflow
    You can configure test runs of test resources that are in a project repository of HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in the project in the GitHub Workflow when you want to run the test resources without opening the Test UI.
  - Testing with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can manage test assets with Jazz™ source control management by integrating the test workbench with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) Eclipse client.
  - Testing with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Testing with Jenkins
    You can use the DTUI-UITest-Jenkins-HCL plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, you can use the Maven plug-in that is provided with the testing product to run tests as part of your Maven build. Apache Maven is a software build tool based on the concept of a project object model (POM).
  - Testing with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run test assets from Micro Focus ALM.
  - Testing with DevOps Test Integrations and APIs
    You can use HCL DevOps Test Integrations and APIs (Test Integrations and APIs) extension to run API tests from HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI). You can either import the projects from Test Integrations and APIs or manage them from Test UI by establishing the connection between the products. You can also create a compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Testing with HCL® Launch
    You can integrate HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) with HCL® HCL Launch to run tests as a Process from Launch.
    - Installing the plugin on HCL® Launch
      You must install the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) Launch plugin to run tests from HCL® Launch.
    - Creating a component in HCL® Launch
      You must create a component to include artifacts and processes. The artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions. Whereas the processes define the activities that components can perform.
    - Creating a process in HCL® Launch
      You must create a process for the component to include step properties for the test that you want to run from HCL® Launch.
    - Configuring the process
      You must configure the process that you created for the component to organize the steps in the process, specify the properties of the steps, and connect them.
    - Creating a resource in HCL® Launch
      You must create a resource to associate agents with components that you created in HCL® Launch.
    - Configuring the resource
      You must configure the resource to add an agent and associate the agent with the component.
    - Creating an application in HCL® Launch
      You must create an application to fetch all the components together that you want to deploy.
    - Configuring the application
      You must configure the application to associate resources with environments and define processes to run tests.
    - Running tests from HCL® Launch
      You can run the Web UI tests for your application under test from HCL® Launch as a Process.
  - Testing with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy
    With the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) plugin for IBM® 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.

Installing the plugin on HCL® Launch

You must install the HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) Launch plugin to run tests from HCL® Launch.

Before you begin

You must be familiar with working with HCL® Launch.
You must have performed the following tasks:
- Installed HCL® Launch. For more information about the installation, refer to the HCL® Launch documentation.
- Been granted access to HCL® Launch.
- Downloaded the Test UI Launch plugin DTUI-UITest-DD-HCL-12.0 from the HCL® License & Delivery portal.

Procedure

Log in to HCL® Launch, if you are not already logged in.
The HCL® Launch dashboard is displayed.
Click Settings.
Click Automation Plugins from the Automation pane.
Click Load Plugin.
Click Choose File to locate and open the compressed Test UI Launch plugin file.

Remember: You must not extract the Test UI Launch plugin compressed file contents.
Click Submit.
The installed plugin is displayed on the Automation Plugins tab.

Results

You have installed the Test UI Launch plugin on HCL® Launch.

What to do next

You must create a Component in HCL® Launch. See Creating a component in HCL Launch.