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. This guide is intended for API testers.
You can use HCL OneTest™ API to test Java™ applications.
You can use HCL OneTest™ API to create tests and stubs by setting up an Apache Camel component in an HCL OneTest API project. You can configure the technology endpoints supported by the Camel component as the physical resources in the HCL OneTest API project and test for the services provided by the technology.
Starting from HCL OneTest™ API V10.0.2 and later, you can create Kafka transports to test Kafka services.
You can use Docker containers with HCL OneTest™ API to run stubs co-located with your test systems.
You can use HCL OneTest™ API to record the HTTP traffic on the Envoy Proxy by using the Experimental HTTP Tap Filter feature of the Envoy Proxy.
You can configure HCL OneTest™ API to synchronize IBM API Connect™ Developer Portal resources or IBM® API Management Developer Portal resources.
When you want to test the services on applications deployed by the integration node of IBM® App Connect Enterprise, you can use the synchronization feature in HCL OneTest™ API to import details of deployed applications into an HCL OneTest API project. You can select the tests and stubs to be created in your project during the synchronization process in HCL OneTest API.
When you want to test the services on applications deployed by the integration node of IBM® Integration Bus, you can use the synchronization feature in HCL OneTest™ API to import details of deployed applications into an HCL OneTest API project. You can select the tests and stubs to be created in your project during the synchronization process in HCL OneTest API.
IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition provides a framework for enabling z/OS®-based programs and data to fully participate in the new API economy for mobile and cloud applications. Use IBM® z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition to access z/OS subsystems, such as CICS®, IMS™ and Batch, by using RESTful APIs with JSON formatted messages. You can access multiple z/OS subsystems concurrently through a common interface.
When you have applications hosted in a Kubernetes cluster that have Istio as a service mesh, you can virtualize the services in the cluster by creating stubs and tests for testing with Istio in HCL OneTest™ API.
For testing with Kubernetes set up a Kubernetes cluster, and then you can create and publish stubs from HCL OneTest™ API so that stubs can be run within Kubernetes. The stubs published can be co-located with existing services running within the Kubernetes cluster.
If you are using HCL OneTest™ API V9.5.0 or later, you can create MongoDB transports and run tests against them.
Configure and run HCL OneTest™ API with the Oracle Fusion plug-in, which provides support for synchronization with and testing of the web services and composites that are available on a configured SOA server (that is, an Oracle WebLogic server with Oracle SOA Suite 11g deployed on it).
You can migrate Postman collections and environments that you created in Postman to HCL OneTest™ API. Operations, transports, tests and stubs are automatically created during migration and you can run the tests and stubs in HCL OneTest API.
If you are using HCL OneTest™ API V9.2.1.1 or later, you can create RabbitMQ transports.
You can use HCL OneTest™ API to test SAP application server resources.
You can incorporate governance in your SOA by using the integration of HCL OneTest™ API with Software AG CentraSite.
You can use HCL OneTest™ API API to test Software AG Universal Messaging Broker server resources. From HCL OneTest API V10.0.2 or later, you can create Software AG Universal Messaging Broker transports, configure and run HCL OneTest API with the Software AG Universal Messaging server.
You can configure and run HCL OneTest™ API with the Software AG webMethods Integration Server to connect to Software AG webMethods Broker and Integration Server resources.
To provide secure connections between clients and servers during testing, you can use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology supported by HCL OneTest™ API.
To use HCL OneTest™ API to test TIBCO messaging, you must configure and run HCL OneTest API with the TIBCO messaging plug-in. Doing so supports TIBCO Rendezvous messaging ("plain" TIBCO Rendezvous messaging and TIBCO ActiveEnterprise (AE) formats), TIBCO EMS messaging, and sending and receiving AE messages by using TIBCO EMS.
You can configure HCL OneTest™ API to synchronize IBM® WebSphere® Application Server resources.
You can test WebSphere® MQ messages using the WebSphere MQ transport method or JMS interface. HCL OneTest™ API also supports testing WebSphere MQ on z/OS systems.
You can configure HCL OneTest™ API to synchronize IBM® WebSphere® Portal resources.
To enable testing the Java™ application that uses HTTP, you must configure the application to use the HTTP/TCP proxy.
To enable the JDBC proxy to capture SQL being used by an application and to test Java application that use JDBC, you must load the driver into the application JVM.
With the Java™ method transport of HCL OneTest™ API, you can work with the Java virtualization agent.
You can import Plain Old Java™ Objects (POJOs) from JAR files into HCL OneTest™ API in order to parse and construct messages containing the serialized forms of those objects. You can construct and parse the Java objects and perform validation, but you cannot test the objects directly.
Use the generic JMS plug-in to connect HCL OneTest™ API to a wide range of EAI platforms, which includes any vendor that provides an implementation of this Java™ standard. JMS provides a way of separating the application from the transport layer of providing data. The same Java classes can be used to communicate with different JMS providers by using the JNDI information for a specific provider. The classes first use a connection factory to connect to the queue or topic, and then use populate and send or publish the messages. On the receiving side, the clients then receive or subscribe to the messages
To provide support for HTTP-based communications, you must configure and run HCL OneTest™ API by using the HTTP transport and SOAP message formatters.
You can use the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) transport and FIX dictionaries in HCL OneTest™ API to help you test trade-related messages and the systems that use them.
When you use applications in your test environment that use email services, you can use HCL OneTest™ API to create tests and stubs for testing the email services. You can set up an email transport in an HCL OneTest API project and configure the email servers as the physical resources in the HCL OneTest API project, and then test the email services.
If you are using HCL OneTest™ API 8.6.0 or later, you can create MQ telemetry transports.
In HCL OneTest™ API, you can create transports that facilitate communication between clients and servers by using both TCP- and UDP-based sockets.
As with any other transport, the File transport includes both logical and physical configurations. Tests and stubs are associated with the logical file, which represents an abstraction of the file and is the same for all environments. The physical File Access configuration includes connection details, and you can configure a different physical File Access for each environment.
You can find information about how to configure virtual IP addresses in the operating system, and then use the virtual IP addresses to configure them as virtual clients in tests or as virtual servers in stubs.
You can test applications on IBM® z/OS® systems by using the capabilities that are supported for mainframes by HCL OneTest™ API.
Problems can occur at a time when HCL OneTest™ API cannot display an error message. Instead, a warning icon is displayed. Double-clicking the icon reveals a list of errors.
You can use the following list of logging-related information to help you find information about the logs that are supported by HCL OneTest™ API. All of the programs use the Java logging framework. For details, see the Java logging framework documentation.