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Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Performance. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
Integration with other products
You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
Integration with Rational® Quality Manager
You can integrate Rational® Quality Manager with HCL OneTest™ Performance to initiate test runs from Rational Quality Manager.
Connecting and disconnecting the ETM adapter from the GUI mode
You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from HCL OneTest™ Performance.

Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Performance. After you install the product, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Installation of HCL OneTest™ Performance
  Installing the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for your HCL software is administered through HCL® License & Delivery portal. This portal is FlexNet-based web application to manage software entitlements and licenses.
- Product upgrade and migration
  When you want to use the enhanced functionalities of HCL OneTest™ Performance, you must upgrade to the latest version of the product software.
- Configuration of the product
  You must configure HCL OneTest™ Performance when you want to run SAP tests, collect response time breakdown data, or use the product in the Docker container.
- Integration with other products
  You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with certain products to run tests, manage test assets, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with HCL OneTest™ Performance.
  - Testing with Ant
    You can use ant to run performance and compound tests from the command line. Starting from V2.0 of the ant plugin, you can run multiple tests simultaneously. V5.0 of the ant plugin is supported in HCL OneTest™ Performance V10.0.2 of the testing products.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous deployment of your application, you can create tests for your application in HCL OneTest™ Performance and run those tests in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can integrate Azure DevOps with HCL OneTest Performance by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension that is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace portal.
  - Integrating with Apache JMeter
    Starting from 9.5, you can use JMeter tests extension with HCL OneTest™ Performance to execute JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system. You can store your test assets in the Git repository and use EGit for the daily version control operations.
  - Integration with Rational® Quality Manager
    You can integrate Rational® Quality Manager with HCL OneTest™ Performance to initiate test runs from Rational Quality Manager.
    - Configuring the Rational® Quality Manager adapter
      You must configure the Rational® Quality Manager adapter to establish a successful connection between HCL OneTest™ Performance and Rational Quality Manager.
    - Configuring the workspace directory of the adapter
      You must configure the workspace directory of the adapter to start or stop the Rational® Quality Manager adapter either from command-line interface or as a Windows service.
    - Connecting and disconnecting the ETM adapter from the GUI mode
      You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from HCL OneTest™ Performance.
    - Starting and stopping the Rational® Quality Manager adapter from the command line
      You can use the command-line interface to start, stop, and view activities of the conref="../prodnames/prodnames.dita#prodnames/RQM_fam" /> adapter that you configured in conref="../prodnames/prodnames.dita#prodnames/RPT_fam" product="rpt"/>.
    - Starting and stopping the Rational® Quality Manager adapter as a Windows™ service
      You can use the Windows™ service to start, stop, and view adapter activities.
    - Importing test assets into Rational® Quality Manager
      You can import the performance and service tests into Rational® Quality Manager by using an adapter.
    - Testing shared assets
      You can make test projects and assets shareable in Rational® Quality Manager. By sharing assets, any computer with your product, that is connected to Rational Quality Manager can execute a test or schedule.
  - Integration with Rational® Team Concert™
    You can integrate Rational® Team Concert™ to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in HCL OneTest™ Performance.
  - Testing with HCL OneTest™ API
    Starting from v9.1.1, you can use HCL OneTest™ API extension to execute API tests. In HCL OneTest Performance, you can either import the projects from HCL OneTest API or manage them from HCL OneTest Performance by establishing the connection between the products. In HCL OneTest Performance, you can create a schedule or compound test to run the IntegrationAPI tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration with UrbanCode Deploy
    With the development team adopting a continuous delivery model, the testing team needs to follow a stringent timeline. Integrating UrbanCode™ Deploy with your product automates the test execution process. If you have many tests to run at regular intervals automatically, you can use UrbanCode Deploy to initiate test execution.
  - Integration of Jaeger with the product
    Jaeger is software for tracing transactions between distributed services. You can use Jaeger to monitor and troubleshoot complex microservices environments.
  - Testing with Jenkins
    You can use the HCL OneTest™ Performance Jenkins plugin for performance testing to run tests on a Jenkins server by using a Jenkins build step.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from V9.2.0, 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).
  - Integrating and running performance test scripts in Micro Focus ALM
    To obtain test result details, you must integrate and run performance test scripts in Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) by using a readily available template available in HCL OneTest™ Performance installation directory.

Connecting and disconnecting the Rational® Quality Manager adapter from the GUI mode

You can use the Quality Manager Adapter view to connect, disconnect, and view adapter activities from HCL OneTest™ Performance.

Before you begin

You must have configured the Rational® Quality Manager adapter. See Configuring the Rational Quality Manager adapter.

About this task

In the GUI mode, when a script is run from Rational® Quality Manager, you can see the test run in progress inside HCL OneTest™ Performance as though the test were run manually in HCL OneTest™ Performance.

Push buttons to connect and disconnect to the Rational® Quality Manager server are located in the upper-right corner of Quality Manager Adapter view. This view also has a local preferences menu that you can use to control some behavior of the GUI mode adapter. If you see errors or warnings, use the Error Log view for further investigation.

Note: You must not use HCL OneTest™ Performance while the adapter is running. If you do so, you might interfere with the ability of the adapter to run test scripts. You must stop the adapter before you open HCL OneTest™ Performance.

The following image displays the activities of the adapter in the Quality Manager Adapter view:

etm_adapter_activity

Procedure

Open HCL OneTest™ Performance.
Click Window > Show View > Quality Manager Adapter.
Perform the following actions either to connect or disconnect the adapter:
- Click the Connect to RQM icon to connect the adapter.
- Click the Disconnect from RQM icon to disconnect the adapter.

Results

You have connected or disconnected the Rational® Quality Manager adapter from HCL OneTest™ Performance.