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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 HCL® Launch
You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with HCL® Launch to run performance test assets as a Process from HCL Launch.
Running tests from HCL® Launch
You can run test assets from HCL® Launch as a Process to test the performance of your application under test.

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
  Installation of the product involves verifying requirements, planning, managing licenses, and configuring web-based help. This section lists all such topics.
- License management
  Licensing for HCL OneTest™ Performance is administered through HCL Software License & Download portal. This portal is a FlexNet-based web application that helps 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.
  - Running tests by using Ant
    When you want to automate repetitive tasks, you can run performance test assets from the command-line interface by using Ant.
  - 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.
  - Integration with Apache JMeter
    You can use JMeter tests extension with HCL OneTest™ Performance to run JMeter tests.
  - EGit integration
    You can store your test assets in the remote Git repository and use EGit for version control operations. EGit is an Eclipse plugin for the Git version control system.
  - Integration with Engineering Test Management
    You can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management (formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager) with HCL OneTest™ Performance to initiate test runs from Engineering Test Management.
  - Integration with IBM® Engineering Workflow Management
    You can integrate Engineering Workflow Management (formerly known as Rational® Team Concert™) to create and track defects (bugs) or other work items, as a defect tracking tool in HCL OneTest™ Performance.
  - Integration with HCL® Launch
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with HCL® Launch to run performance test assets as a Process from HCL Launch.
    - Installing the plugin on HCL® Launch
      You must install the HCL OneTest™ Performance Launch plugin to run performance test assets from HCL® Launch.
    - Creating a component in HCL® Launch
      You must create a component to include artifacts and processes. The artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions. Whereas the processes define the activities that components can perform.
    - Creating a process in HCL® Launch
      You must create a process for the component to include step properties for the test that you want to run from HCL® Launch.
    - Configuring the process
      You must configure the process that you created for the component to organize the steps in the process, specify the properties of the steps, and connect them.
    - Creating a resource in HCL® Launch
      You must create a resource to associate agents with components that you created in HCL® Launch.
    - Configuring the resource
      You must configure the resource to add an agent and associate the agent with the component.
    - Creating an application in HCL® Launch
      You must create an application to fetch all the components together that you want to deploy.
    - Configuring the application
      You must configure the application to associate resources with environments and define processes to run test assets.
    - Running tests from HCL® Launch
      You can run test assets from HCL® Launch as a Process to test the performance of your application under test.
  - Integration with HCL OneTest™ API
    You can use HCL OneTest™ API extension to run API tests from 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. You can also create a schedule or compound test to run the tests by using the Agents.
  - Integration with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run performance test assets as a Process from UrbanCode Deploy.
  - 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.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the HCL OneTest™ Performance Jenkins plugin to run tests on a Jenkins server.
  - Testing with Maven
    Starting from 9.2.0, 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).
  - Integration with Micro Focus ALM
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Performance with Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to run performance test assets from Micro Focus ALM.

Running tests from HCL® Launch

You can run test assets from HCL® Launch as a Process to test the performance of your application under test.

Before you begin

You must be familiar with working with HCL® Launch.
You must have performed the following tasks:
- Been granted access to HCL® Launch.
- Created a component in HCL® Launch. See Creating a component in HCL Launch.
- Created a process for the component in HCL® Launch. See Creating a process in HCL Launch.
- Configure the process for the component in HCL® Launch. See Configuring the process.
- Created a resource in HCL® Launch. See Creating a resource in HCL Launch.
- Configured the resource in HCL® Launch. See Configuring the resource.
- Created an application in HCL® Launch. See Creating an application in HCL Launch.
- Configured the application in HCL® Launch. See Configuring the application.
- Started the HCL® Launch agent. For more information, refer to the HCL Launch documentation.
- Closed HCL OneTest™ Performance.

Procedure

Log in to HCL® Launch, if you are not already logged in.
The HCL® Launch dashboard is displayed.
Click Applications.
A list of applications that are available in HCL® Launch is displayed.
Click the application that you configured for the test run.
Click the Request Process icon.
The Create Deployment page is displayed.
Select the process that you created for the application which contains the test assets from the Process drop-down list.
Click Next, and then select the specific version of component, if any.

Note: If you have multiple versions for your component, then only you can choose the required version by clicking the Add option.
Click Next, and then verify the properties for the test run.
Click Next, and then verify that the status of the Run Now option is enabled.
You can disable the Run Now option, and then use the Date, Time, and Recurrence Pattern fields to run tests as Process at the scheduled time.
Click Next, and then verify the details about the Process.
Click Submit Deployment to initiate the test run.

Results

You have run the performance test assets as Process from HCL® Launch.

What to do next

You can view the status of the process as follows:

Success: When the test run is successful
Failed: When the test run fails

You can view the details of the test run in the Log tab. The Reports information section on the Log file displays the names of the report along with its corresponding URLs if you publish test results to HCL OneTest™ Server.