Release notes for HCL OneTest Performance

This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known issues in HCL OneTest Performance, and contact information of HCL Customer Support.

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Product description

You can find the description of HCL OneTest Performance.

HCL OneTest Performance is a scripting-free environment for automating load and scalability testing of web, ERP, and server-based software applications. HCL OneTest Performance provides rich and customizable reporting to help you identify the presence and cause of system bottlenecks. It captures the network traffic that is rendered when the application under test interacts with a server. This network traffic is then emulated on multiple virtual users while you play back the test. See Product overview.

What's new

You can find information about the features introduced in this release of HCL OneTest Performance.

  • Enhancements to integration plugins

    The integration plugins are enhanced to provide additional parameters that you can use when you run tests from the integrated product.

    The following table lists the parameters added in HCL OneTest Performance 10.2.3 with the checkmark icon for each of the integration plugins:

    Parameters Integration plugins
    Azure DevOps UrbanCode Deploy and HCL® Launch MicroFocus ALM Ant Jenkins

    Duration

    Exportlog

    Publish

    Publish_for

    Publishreports

    Rate

    History

    Exportstatsformat

    Labels

    Exportstatshtml

    Exportstatreportlist

    Exportstats

    Overwrite

    Configfile

    Results

    Usercomments

    Users

    The following topics provide more information about parameters for each of the integration plugins:

  • Viewing test run results on the Azure Test Plans dashboard

    When you use the HCL OneTest Studio extension in Azure DevOps pipelines to run performance test assets, you can now view the results of the test runs on the Test Plans dashboard of Azure DevOps. See Running tests from Azure DevOps as a Pipeline job.

  • Support to auto-save the load test profile details of test assets

    HCL OneTest Performance now automatically saves the load test profile details of tests, compound tests, vu schedules, and rate schedules.

  • Bug fixes

    Fixed the customer-reported and internally found defects.

Deprecated capabilities

You can find information about the capabilities that are deprecated in this release and are planned for a removal in a future release.

You can contact the HCL Client Support team if you have any concerns.

  • Support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is deprecated:

  • Support for the following virtualization management is deprecated:

    • Docker Community Edition (CE) 19.3

    • Docker Compose 1.25

    • Docker Compose 1.26

  • Support for the following browsers (for recording and playback tests) is deprecated:

    • Google Chrome 84 to 90

    • Microsoft Edge 89 to 90

    • Mozilla Firefox 78 to 88

  • Support for the following software is deprecated:

    • JMeter 5.3

    • Eclipse Runtime Environment 4.7.3.1

Capabilities removed

The following features that were announced in previous releases as deprecated are now removed in this release:

  • Support for the following operating systems is removed:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.2

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.1

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8

  • Support for the following browsers (for recording and playback tests) is removed:

    • Google Chrome 78 to 83

    • Mozilla Firefox 60 to 77

    • Mozilla Firefox ESR 68

  • Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (for viewing of performance reports and datasets) is removed.

  • Support for IBM® Rational® Clear Case 8.0.1 or later is removed.

Installing the product

You can find information about the installation instructions for HCL OneTest Performance.

For installation instructions, see Installation of the product by using the stand-alone installer.

Remember: You cannot upgrade the product to the latest version. You must uninstall the existing version of the product before you install the latest version of the product.

Known issues

You can find information about the known issues identified in this release of HCL OneTest Performance.

Table 1. Release documents - Fix list and known issues
Product Download document Knowledge Base

HCL OneTest Performance

Release document

Knowledge articles

The knowledge base is continually updated as problems are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

Contacting HCL support

You can find information about HCL technical support assistance for HCL OneTest Performance.

  • For technical assistance, contact HCL Customer Support.
  • Before you contact HCL support, you must gather the background information that you might need to describe your problem. When you describe a problem to the HCL support specialist, be as specific as possible and include all relevant background information so that the specialist can help you solve the problem efficiently. To save time, know the answers to these questions:
    • What software versions were you running when the problem occurred?
    • Do you have logs, traces, or messages that are related to the problem?
    • Can you reproduce the problem? If so, what steps do you take to reproduce it?
    • Is there a workaround for the problem? If so, be prepared to describe the workaround.