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Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in Rational® Test Automation Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Generation of test data
To test an application, you use data that is passed to get real-time results. Since creating test data manually is time-consuming, you can use HCL® OneTest™ Data, an automated tool to generate random test data. You can generate the test data in various file formats.
Test data generation from structured schemas
When you want to test your application by using randomly generated test data, then you must generate the test data from the structured schemas.
Generated test data in MongoDB
When you use MongoDB as a database in your application testing environment and you want the generated test data in MongoDB, then you can generate the test data by using HCL® OneTest™ Data. Subsequently, HCL OneTest Data inserts the generated test data directly in MongoDB.
Establishing a MongoDB connection
You must establish a connection between HCL® OneTest™ Data and MongoDB to associate a schema with the database.

Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in Rational® Test Automation Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
- Datasets overview
  A dataset provides tests with variable data during a run. The test that uses a dataset at run time replaces a value in the recorded test with variable test data that is stored in the dataset.
- Generation of test data
  To test an application, you use data that is passed to get real-time results. Since creating test data manually is time-consuming, you can use HCL® OneTest™ Data, an automated tool to generate random test data. You can generate the test data in various file formats.
  - Schema fabrication
    A schema is a graphical structure to represent different types of data. You can fabricate a schema for the generation of test data.
  - Schema design overview
    When you compose a schema by using HCL® OneTest™ Data you must define the types of the schema. You can also modify the types of the schema when you import any schema from local file system or use the schema generated by using any external resource.
  - Test data generation from structured schemas
    When you want to test your application by using randomly generated test data, then you must generate the test data from the structured schemas.
    - Generated test data in JDBC database
      When you want the generated test data in any Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) supported database, you can generate the test data by using HCL® OneTest™ Data. Subsequently, HCL OneTest Data inserts the generated test data directly in the configured JDBC supported database.
    - Generated test data for SAP IDoc or DXOB
      When you want to generate the test data for an SAP Intermediate Document (IDoc) or Data Transfer Object (DXOB) file, you can generate a schema in HCL® OneTest™ Data by using the structured schema of the SAP IDoc or DXOB file. You can then generate the test data by using the generated schema in HCL OneTest Data.
    - Generated test data for SAP BAPI
      When you want to generate test data for SAP Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI), you can generate a schema in HCL® OneTest™ Data based on structured schema of SAP BAPI function modules. You can then generate the test data by using the generated schema in HCL OneTest Data.
    - Generated test data in MongoDB
      When you use MongoDB as a database in your application testing environment and you want the generated test data in MongoDB, then you can generate the test data by using HCL® OneTest™ Data. Subsequently, HCL OneTest Data inserts the generated test data directly in MongoDB.
      - Establishing a MongoDB connection
        You must establish a connection between HCL® OneTest™ Data and MongoDB to associate a schema with the database.
      - Associating a schema with MongoDB
        After you establish the connection between HCL® OneTest™ Data and MongoDB, you must associate a schema with a database of MongoDB. You must select the schema that you want to use to generate the test data.
      - Inserting the generated test data in a database
        After you associate a schema with a database of MongoDB, you can generate the test data and insert the generated test data directly in the database by using HCL® OneTest™ Data.
    - Generated test data for an Excel file
      When you use Microsoft Excel as a database in your application testing environment and you want to use the structure of an Excel file to generate test data, then you can generate the test data for the selected Excel file by using HCL® OneTest™ Data.
    - Generating test data
      When you have a defined and structured schema for the entire data, you can generate test data to perform application testing.
  - Status of generated test data
    You can view the status of all the test data generated jobs performed in your project, on the Jobs page.

Establishing a MongoDB connection with HCL OneTest Data

You must establish a connection between HCL® OneTest™ Data and MongoDB to associate a schema with the database.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Created or imported a schema in the HCL® OneTest™ Data project.
Installed MongoDB on your computer and the MongoDB instance must be ready to connect. For more information, refer to Install MongoDB.
Created a database in MongoDB. For more information, refer to Database Methods.

Procedure

Select your project in Rational® Test Automation Server and go to the Data Fabrication page.
Click Connections.
Click New to create a new connection.

The New Connection dialog box is displayed.
Select MongoDB as a connection type and click Next.
Enter the following properties of the connection in the Properties dialog box:
1. Enter the host name of MongoDB in the Host field.
2. Enter the server port number of the computer where MongoDB is running in the Port field.
3. Enter the user name and password to access MongoDB.
Click Test to verify whether the connection is established successfully.
Note: If the connection fails to establish, it can be because of any one of the following reasons:
- Unreachable database.
- Missing database.
- Incorrect host name and port number.
Click Fetch to upload all the databases available in the configured MongoDB in the Database drop-down list, and then select the database that you want to use to write the generated test data.
Click Next, and then provide a name to the established MongoDB connection.
Click OK.

You can see the name of the MongoDB connection under the Connections tab.

Results

You have successfully established the connection between HCL® OneTest™ Data and MongoDB.

What to do next

You must associate a schema with a database of MongoDB. See Associating a schema with MongoDB.