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Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test scripts in HCL OneTest™ Performance and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
Compound tests
You can create compound tests to help you organize smaller tests into scenarios that can then be run end-to-end. You can combine tests from different extensions to achieve end-to-end flow.
Importing a compound test into a project
When you have an existing compound test, you can import a compound test into a test project.

Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test scripts in HCL OneTest™ Performance and enhances tests by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points. This guide is intended for testers.
- Creating tests
  To create a test, you record representative interactions with an application.
- Editing tests
  After you record a test, you can edit it to include datasets (to provide variable data rather than the data that you recorded), verification points (to confirm that the test runs as expected), and data correlation (to ensure that returned data is appropriate for the corresponding request). You can also add protocol-specific elements to a test. When you edit a test, the modified items appear in italic type. The italic type changes to regular type after you save the test.
- Compound tests
  You can create compound tests to help you organize smaller tests into scenarios that can then be run end-to-end. You can combine tests from different extensions to achieve end-to-end flow.
  - Creating a compound test
    You can create compound tests to organize smaller tests into scenarios so that you can run these tests simultaneously or sequentially. You can also combine tests from different extensions to achieve the entire process and to speed up and minimize the test effort.
  - Viewing compound tests
    You can view the compound tests added to your project in the Test Navigator. You can view the details of the compound test elements in the Compound Test Element Details pane.
  - Adding tests into a compound test
    After creating a compound test, you can add the smaller test pieces that contribute to the larger workflow you are constructing with the compound test. When you run a compound test, each of the tests added to it are invoked in the sequence defined.
  - Modifying a compound test
    You can modify a compound test in the Compound Test Editor.
  - Running compound tests
    When you run a compound test, its test elements are run in the order defined in the compound test.
  - Generating compound test result reports
    When a compound test run is completed, a Test Log is shown in the Test Execution perspective. You can work with the information in the test log and also generate test result reports.
  - Importing a compound test into a project
    When you have an existing compound test, you can import a compound test into a test project.
  - Adding compound tests to schedule
    To test the performance of multiple tests, you can add all the tests to a compound test and add the compound test to a user group or a rate runner group. When you run a schedule, all the tests in the compound test are run in a sequential order.
- Simulating services with stubs
  Service stubs enable you to simulate the behavior of an actual service for a wide variety testing or integration purposes.
- Sending service requests with the generic service client
  The generic service client enables you to send requests to services for which you do not have a convenient client and to view the responses returned by the service.
- Emulating workloads
  You emulate a workload by creating a schedule and adding user groups/rate runner groups, tests, and other elements to it.

Importing a compound test into a project

When you have an existing compound test, you can import a compound test into a test project.

About this task

You can import the test by importing into the project in the Test Navigator. Alternatively, you can use the following procedure to import the tests.

Procedure

Open the Performance Test perspective in HCL OneTest™ Performance, if it is not already open.
Right-click the test project where you want to import the compound test in the Test Navigator.
Click Import.
Select Import test assets with dependencies, and then click Next.
Click Browse to locate the compound test file on your computer.
Select the components that you want to import, and then click Finish.
The imported compound test is displayed in the Compound Test Elements panel in the Compound Test editor.

Results

You have imported a compound test into a project.

What to do next

You can run the compound test. See Running compound tests.