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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.
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.

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.
- Integrations in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn about the supported integrations for the Functional Test perspective.

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.

Procedure

For Windows®: To start Test UI, Eclipse Integration from the command line, type:
<FT installation directory>\eclipse.exe -product com.ibm.rational.rft.product.ide
For Windows®: To start Test UI Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Integration, from the command line, type:

"<Visual Studio installation directory>\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
For Linux®: To start Test UI from the command line, close the terminal from where you installed Test UI, start a new terminal and type:
<product installation directory>\ft_starter

This is required because product environment variables are set during installation. These environment variables are not available to the shell that started the installation process, and therefore it is recommended that you use a new terminal.
Note:
- On Ubuntu, you must ensure that the environment variables that are set while installing the products are retained when you open Test UI and the application-under-test.
- When you launch Test UI on Linux, a terminal window opens. You must not close the terminal window manually when the application is in use. When you quit the application, the terminal window closes automatically.