Release notes for HCL OneTest™ API

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The IBM® WebSphere® MQ agent for IBM® z/OS® andIBM® CICS DPL agent now display the latest version when they are started. The latest MQ agent and CICS DPL agent have the same functions as the previous version of agents. Therefore, you need not upgrade them to the latest agent versions.

Previously, when you scheduled a test run that runs on HCL Quality Server, the domain-level security was not applied to the scheduled tests that resulted in the test being visible to all users logged on to HCL Quality Server.

This continues to be the behavior as the domain-level security cannot be applied for scheduled test runs. However, when you schedule a test run in HCL OneTest™ API, the UI indicates that the scheduled test will be visible to all users logged on to HCL Quality Server.

Previously, when you changed the logging level of a stub that was running, the stub automatically restarted for the changes to take effect. At times, the auto restart of the stubs might have caused disruptions in your testing cycles.

The behavior of the running stubs is enhanced, and now when you change the log levels of a running stub, the changes are applied without an auto restart of the stub.

Examples provided in the HCL Quality Server Swagger UI are for guidance only. You must use the response data received as input to subsequent calls. The Swagger API Documentation is updated for such usage in certain API calls.

When you want to run tests from the command line, you can now provide the URL, user name, password, and the database driver as arguments to override the Results Database that is configured in the project. You can optionally use an encrypted password that is generated by using the EncryptPassword application that is in the installation directory of HCL OneTest™ API.

Previously, when you used the command line to delete results in a results database, you were not able to ascertain the progress nor the number of records that were being deleted.

Now, you can view the progress of results deletion in a progress bar when you use the delete all results command. When you use the delete all results keeping <argument> command, you can view the number of records being deleted along with the progress in a progress bar.

See Deleting all results by using the command line.

You can now record SAP Hana S/4 IDocs by using the HCL OneTest™ API ABAP plugin.

HCL OneTest™ API now supports IPIC and DPL with CICS Transaction Server 5.6.

Previously, you were able to create and run consumer-driven Contract tests in HCL OneTest™ API.

Now, you can use HCL OneTest™ API to create and run producer-driven Contract tests by creating stubs that subscribe to the messages sent by the consumer. Setting the stub property to validate the contract, ensures that the schema defined for outgoing messages from consumers are validated by the schema defined for the expected messages received by the stub. Also, if the validation fails, a response is sent to the consumer about the validation errors.

HCL OneTest™ API also supports the creation of Contract tests and stubs when you synchronize resources to perform Contract testing.

See Contract testing.

You can now use any of the supported HMAC symmetric or asymmetric signature algorithms to sign certificates that you want to use in SOAP requests.

See Adding signatures.

Previously, you were able to add only one query or mutation node as a child to a GraphQL query or mutation document node.

Now, you can add multiple query or mutation nodes as children to a GraphQL query or mutation document node.

See Applying the GraphQL schema to a message and Editing GraphQL messages.

Previously, when you worked with messages that were based on a DFDL schema, empty fields prevented the message from being collapsed.

See Creating a DFDL schema.

When you use the Message Case in a Message Switch action to receive messages in a stub, you can now select the Send Error Response option to force the stub to send a response if the incoming message fails the validation that is set. The validation points are set in the Assert tab of the Message Case action configured in the stub.

See The Properties tab.

The HCL OneTest™ API API agent for MQ (z/OS) now supports MQ 9.2.