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Reference Guide
This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
Reference information for the Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.
Test application domain support
HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .NET, Java™, HTML, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and GEF applications.
HTML support
HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing HTML applications that are loaded in a browser.

Reference Guide
This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI).
- Reference information for the UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the UI Test perspective.
- Reference information for the Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn all the reference or additional information about the Functional Test perspective.
  - Test application domain support
    HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) is an object-oriented automated testing tool that tests Windows®, .NET, Java™, HTML, SAP, AJAX, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and GEF applications.
    - Adobe PDF documents support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing of Portable Document Format (PDF) read-only files created for Adobe Reader versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, and 11.0. (Adobe Reader 11 is the last supported version of the Reader application.) You can test PDF files that are displayed in a browser or in the stand-alone Adobe Reader application. A functional test script that is recorded for files that are displayed in the stand-alone Adobe Reader application can be played back when the file is displayed in a browser and vice-versa, provided that the script is recorded for document controls only. Support for Adobe PDF requires Visual C++ 2013 or higher.
    - AJAX support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing AJAX-based web applications.
    - Application Response Measurement support
      The Application Response Measurement (ARM) standard helps measure the end-to-end transaction performance of an application, including service levels and response time. HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) uses the response time breakdown to view the statistics that is captured while running a test.
    - Eclipse support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing of Eclipse-based applications.
    - GEF support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) allows testing the functionality of GEF objects that are implemented using standard GEF editors and non-standard GEF editors. GEF editor is based on Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) that provides many features for manipulating models. GEF displays a model graphically, employs MVC (model-view-controller) architecture and aids user interaction with that model.
    - HTML support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing HTML applications that are loaded in a browser.
    - Java support
      Test UI is bundled with Java 17, and by default, the Java environment is enabled for testing Java applications.
    - .NET support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports recording and playing back user applications that are built with the Microsoft .NET Framework.
    - Windows support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing of Windows applications with Win32 controls.
    - Nested domains support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) recognizes two different kinds of nesting of objects, a parent-child nesting and an owner-owned nesting. A parent-child nesting occurs when one object is contained within another, such as a button on a form. An owner-owned nesting occurs when the owned object has its own top-level window, such as a that is owned by a top-level window.
    - PowerBuilder support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports the testing of Win32 targets and .NET targets that are created by using Sybase PowerBuilder versions 10.5, 11.0, 11.2, 11.5, 12.0, 12.5, 12.6, and Appeon PowerBuilder 2017.
    - SAP support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports extended functional testing of SAP GUI for Windows and SAP GUI for HTML.
    - Visual Basic support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 applications.
    - Terminal-based applications support
      HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) Extension for Terminal-based Applications supports functional testing of Mainframe or zSeries (TN3270, TN3270E), AS/400 or iSeries (TN5250) and pSeries or Virtual Terminals (VT default, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT220-7, VT220-8, VT320, VT420-7, VT420-8, VT52, VT UTF-8).
  - Command line interface
    In this section, you will learn about the actions that can also be performed from the command line.
  - UI reference
    In this section, you will learn all the UI references and its additional information for the Functional Test perspective.
- Reference information for the Visual Studio IDE
- Java API reference
  You can find the links to view the following API reference guides of HCL DevOps Test UI:

HTML support

HCL DevOps Test UI (Test UI) supports testing HTML applications that are loaded in a browser.

The Functional Test perspective can be used to test HTML4 applications and the UI Test perspective can be used to test web applications built with HTML4 and HTML5 technologies. For information on testing of HTML5-based applications, refer to Web UI tests.

Test UI supports the following options to test HTML applications:

Recording tests for HTML applications using the different browser settings. See Creation of Web UI tests.
Using a specific browser profile for test runs. See Setting a specific browser profile for the playback.
Clearing the data stored in browsers before test runs. See Clearing cache, cookies, and history of browsers.
Running tests in headless and private mode. See Running tests in the headless mode and Running tests in the private or incognito mode.
Updating tests with guided healing and self-healing. See Overview of guided healing and self-healing.
Multi-window support to test Functional HTML tests. See Multiwindow support for functional HTML tests.

Test UI supports testing HTML applications that are loaded in the following browsers:

Google Chrome: See Preparing for functional testing in the Google Chrome browser.
Microsoft® Edge: See Running a script from the Microsoft Edge browser.
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox: See Enabling Mozilla Firefox for Web UI testing and Recording a Web UI test in Mozilla Firefox.

When you record a script, Test UI creates a test object map for the application under test. The test object map contains descriptions of all test objects to which the script refers. The test object maps that Test UI creates for HTML applications are often more hierarchical than those created for Java™ applications. The highest level of the test object map is a browser and the HTML application is inside the browser. For more information, see the example of a test object map that is created for a HTML application.