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Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ 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.
Generating test data by using multiple schemas
When you have multiple schemas generated by external resources in HCL® OneTest™ Data, then you can generate the test data by using multiple schemas.
Defining properties of schemas
After you generate the schema from the configured database in HCL® OneTest™ Data, you must define the required properties for all schemas.

Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ 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-supported databases
      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.
    - 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.
    - Generating test data by using multiple schemas
      When you have multiple schemas generated by external resources in HCL® OneTest™ Data, then you can generate the test data by using multiple schemas.
      - Selecting multiple schemas
        After you define the properties of schemas, you must select schemas and view the relationships among them to generate the test data for multiple schemas simultaneously.
      - Defining properties of schemas
        After you generate the schema from the configured database in HCL® OneTest™ Data, you must define the required properties for all schemas.
      - Generating test data for selected schemas
        After you select multiple schemas on the Schema Integrity page, you can generate the test data of all the selected schemas simultaneously.
  - 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.

Defining properties of schemas

After you generate the schema from the configured database in HCL® OneTest™ Data, you must define the required properties for all schemas.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Created a project.
Generated schemas in HCL® OneTest™ Data by using a JDBC connection. See Generating a schema in HCL OneTest Data.

Procedure

Log in to HCL OneTest™ Server and open the team space that contains your project.
Open your project.
The Overview page is displayed.
Click Author > Data Fabrication.
The Data Fabrication page is displayed.
Select the generated schema from the Schemas tab.

For example, schema_<number>
Click the Menu icon of the group type of the schema and select Structure.

You can view the list of all item types associated with the selected group type in the structural view of the schema.
Click the Menu icon of all item types in the Structure dialog box to set the following properties:
1. Click Set Required to get at least one occurrence of the item type in the generated test data, and then click Save.
2. Select item types with the values of Item Subclass as Number and Presentation as Integer.
3. Click Properties for the selected item types and perform the following steps for Item Properties:
  1. Set the value of Min size (digits) and Max size (digits) between 1-9, where the value for Min size (digits) should be less than or equal to Max size (digits).
    For example, you can set the Min size (digits) as 1 and the Max size (digits) as 9.
Note: The values of both the Min size (digits) and Max size (digits) properties for item types that act as a primary key and foreign key must be the same.
Save the changes.
You must repeat steps 2 through step 5 to set the properties for all schemas.

Results

You have defined the properties for all schemas.

What to do next

You can click Schema Integrity to select the defined and structured schemas that you want to use to generate the test data. See Selecting multiple schemas.