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 in 10.2.1.1

This release addresses the issue of the security vulnerability in CVE-2021-44228 that is specific to Apache Log4j 2 / Log4Shell.

This release replaces HCL OneTest™ Server 10.2.1 and includes all updates made in the 10.2.1 release.

If you installed HCL OneTest™ Server 10.2.1, you must first uninstall it, and then install HCL OneTest™ Server 10.2.1.1. For installation instructions, see Installation of the server software.

What's new in 10.2.1

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.
  • Integration with IBM Engineering Test Management

    You can now integrate HCL OneTest™ Server with IBM® Engineering Test Management to run the test assets in a project in your team space from Engineering Test Management. After the tests run, you can view the results on the Results page. See Integration with IBM Engineering Test Management.

  • Overriding results database

    When you want to override the Results Database that is configured in the API Suite project, you can now provide the URL, user name, password, and the database driver as program arguments in the Advanced settings in the Execute test asset dialog box. You can optionally use an encrypted password that is generated by using the EncryptPassword application that is in the installation directory of HCL OneTest™ API.

  • Running a scan of an application code

    You can use HCL OneTest™ Server to scan you application code, similar to using the AppScan CodeSweep plugin in Visual Studio. You must create a .codesweep file that contains information about the assets in the repository and the folders with the application code that must be scanned. You can optionally, specify the rules to ignore, folders with code to be excluded from the scan, or the parameters for a verdict of the scan in the file.

    After you commit the assets to a remote repository, you can add the repository to your project in a team space, and then run a scan of the assets on HCL OneTest™ Server.

    See Configuration of a scan of an application code.

  • Running tests on remote Kubernetes clusters

    You can now run the supported test resources on remote Kubernetes clusters that you register with a team space on HCL OneTest™ Server and add the Kubernetes cluster to your project in the team space.

    You can select the remote cluster as a location to run the tests when you configure a run.

    You can edit the configurations of a cluster, remove a cluster from a project, or unregister the cluster from a team space.

    See Management of remote Kubernetes clusters.

Deprecated capabilities

The following capabilities are deprecated. HCL will no longer invest in enhancing these capabilities and is planning to remove them in a future release. If you have any concerns, contact either an HCL representative or your HCL Client Support team for this program:
  • No capabilities were deprecated in this release.

Removed capabilities

The following capabilities that were announced in previous releases as deprecated are removed in this release:

  • No capabilities were removed in this release.

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.

Table 1. Release documents - Fix list and known issues
Product Download document Knowledge Base
HCL OneTest™ Server Release document Knowledge articles

The knowledge base is continually updated as problems are discovered and resolved. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems.

Contacting HCL support

You can find information about Contacting HCL support.

  • For technical assistance, contact HCL Customer Support.
  • Before you contact HCL support, you must gather the background information that you might need to describe your problem. When you describe a problem to the HCL support specialist, be as specific as possible and include all relevant background information so that the specialist can help you solve the problem efficiently. To save time, know the answers to these questions:
    • What software versions were you running when the problem occurred?
    • Do you have logs, traces, or messages that are related to the problem?
    • Can you reproduce the problem? If so, what steps do you take to reproduce it?
    • Is there a workaround for the problem? If so, be prepared to describe the workaround.