Release notes for HCL OneTest™ Server

This document includes information about What’s new, installation and upgrade instructions, known issues, and contact information of HCL Customer Support.

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Product description

You can find the description of HCL OneTest™ Server.

HCL OneTest™ Server is a server that includes capabilities such as project and role-based security, Docker-based distribution and installation, and running of test cases. For more information about the server, see HCL OneTest Server overview.

What's new

You can find information about the features introduced in this release of HCL OneTest™ Server.
The following sections list the new features, enhancements or other changes made in this release.
  • Installing server software on Azure Kubernetes Service

    You can now install HCL OneTest™ Server on Azure Kubernetes Service that has a Kubernetes environment to run functional, integration, and performance tests. See Installation of the server software on Azure Kubernetes Service.

  • Creating and maintaining multiple team spaces

    Previously, HCL OneTest™ Server supported only one logical partition as the initial team space. Now, you can create and maintain multiple team spaces in HCL OneTest™ Server. The initial team space is available for all licensed users of HCL OneTest™ Server before you create any other team space.

    You can perform the following tasks in team spaces:
    • Configure licenses or licensed users for each team space.
    • View all team spaces created on HCL OneTest™ Server and the team spaces that you can access from the Team Space Dashboard page.
    • Register Dockers, agents, intercepts, or Resource Monitoring agents with a team space before you use them in your projects of that team space.
    • Add team space members with the following roles:
      • Team Space Owner
      • Project Creator
      • Architect
      • Member
    • Isolate the projects from the users who are not members of the team space.

    See Team space overview.

  • Configure a repository with any default branch in a team space

    Now, you can configure any branch in a repository as the default branch in a team space.

  • Associating test suites to the components of the System Model

    You can now associate test suites to the components of the System Model in addition to the virtual resources. After you associate the test suite, you can then click the test suite to view them on the Execution page.

    See Viewing resources associated with components.

  • Starting or stopping virtual services associated with components

    After you associate virtual services with components in the System Model page, you can then navigate to the Resources or Instances page to either start an instance or stop a running instance.

    See Viewing resources associated with components.

  • Viewing and filtering test assets by their associated components on the Execution page

    The components in the System Model page that are associated with test assets can now be viewed in the Components column on the Execution page. You can also use the component as a parameter in a filter rule to obtain test assets associated with a specific component. You can return to the System Model page by clicking the component displayed for the test asset in the Components column on the Execution page.

  • Viewing and stopping virtual service instances associated with components

    After you start an instance of the virtual services that are associated with components in the System Model page, you can then navigate to the Instances page to either view the running instance or stop a running instance. You can also view the components that are associated with running instances of virtual services from the Instances page.

    See Viewing running instances of virtual services.

  • Introducing the Concurrent Virtual Services licenses

    Now, you need a separate Concurrent Virtual Services license to run an instance of the virtual services on HCL OneTest™ Server.

    See Server software licensing information.

  • Viewing running instances associated with components

    After you have associated virtual services with components in the System Model and started instances, you can view the instances that are associated with the components from the Instances page. You can also filter the view to display running instances by using components as a criteria in the filters.

  • Hiding inactive instances from the virtual service Instances page view

    You can now hide the virtual service instances that are stopped or those that failed, from the display on the virtual service Instances page via a single button.

    See Viewing running instances of virtual services.

  • Stopping multiple running instances of virtual services

    You can now stop multiple or all running instances of virtual services from the Instances page.

    See Stopping virtual services.

  • Navigating to the Progress page to view the state of test asset runs

    You can now navigate to the Progress page from the Execution page to view the runs that were started, scheduled, or completed by clicking the Show in the Progress page icon that is enabled for the specific test asset.

    See Viewing the state of test assets.

  • Stopping or Canceling multiple test runs

    You can now stop multiple or all running test assets from the Progress page. You can also cancel multiple or all scheduled runs of test assets from the Progress page.

    See Stopping test runs or Canceling scheduled test runs.

  • Defining resource monitoring sources for a team space

    As a team space owner, you can define resource monitoring sources in the team space so that they can be shared between multiple projects in the team space. During a performance schedule execution with resource monitoring labels, the sources defined in a team space are collected with the sources that are defined in a project whenever they match the provided labels. As a user of a team space, you can use the resource monitoring sources that are defined in the team space.

  • Agents listed for selection based on capabilities

    When you install static agents and add the agents to your project on HCL OneTest™ Server, the agents based on the capabilities that match with the agent specified in the test assets are listed for an override. The agents with the best matching capabilities are listed on the top followed by other agents with mismatched capabilities.

  • Adding categories and properties to user-defined capabilities

    The user-defined capabilities feature is enhanced. Now, you can group user-defined capabilities under categories that you create. You can also add name-value pairs as properties for the capabilities.

    See Working with agent capabilities.

The following sections list the new features, enhancements or other changes made in HCL® OneTest™ Data:
  • Establishing relationship among schemas based on referential integrity

    Previously, you were able to only view the relationships among JDBC-supported schemas on the Schema Canvas page. You can now establish parent-child relationships among multiple non-JDBC schemas on the Schema Canvas page.

    See Establishing a parent-child relationship among schemas.
  • Generating DDL statements for multiple schemas

    You can now generate the Data Definition Language (DDL) statements for single or multiple non-JDBC schemas. You can use the DDL statements to create a table in your database. Each job of generating DDL statements for the selected schemas generates a SQL file.

    See Generating DDL statements for schemas.

  • Generating the test data by using multiple schemas

    Previously, you were able to generate the test data for only multiple JDBC-supported schemas. You can now generate the test data for multiple non-JDBC schemas by maintaining referential integrity. You can also modify the relationships among non-JDBC schemas on the Schema Canvas page.

    You can view the relationship among the selected schemas on the Schema Canvas page.

    See Generating test data for selected schemas.

Installing and upgrading

You can find information about the installation and upgrade instructions for HCL OneTest™ Server.
Installing HCL OneTest™ Server

For instructions about installing the software, see Installation of the server software.

Upgrading of HCL OneTest™ Server

For instructions about upgrading the software, see Server software upgrade methods.

Known issues

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