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.

Contents

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.
  • Support to install HCL OneTest™ Server on OpenShift is removed

    OpenShift is no longer supported as a platform on which you can install HCL OneTest™ Server 10.2.2.

  • Authoring tests on HCL OneTest™ Server

    You can now use the test authoring capability of HCL OneTest Server that utilizes a containerized version of the OneTest Studio desktop authoring products to author tests and virtual services.

    You can also modify test assets or virtual service resources that you create by using the containerized products or the test assets or resources in the project repositories that you created in the desktop products and committed to the repositories.

    See Test authoring.

  • Support to add multiple repositories simultaneously

    Previously, you were able to add individual Git repositories one at a time to your project on HCL OneTest™ Server.

    Now, you can add multiple repositories simultaneously that are contained in the same repository domain.

    See Adding repositories to a server project.

  • Support to configure and run individual test assets

    Previously,you were able to configure and run Suites, Compound Tests, or Schedules on HCL OneTest™ Server. Now, you can configure and run individual test assets such as an API test, a Functional test, or Performance test.

    See Test run configurations.

  • Support to run instances of virtual service resources on a remote Kubernetes cluster

    You can now configure and run instances of virtual service resources on a remote Kubernetes cluster. You can select the remote Kubernetes cluster as the location to run the virtual service resources after you set up and add the remote cluster to your project.

    See Configuring a run of a virtual service.

  • Support to run test assets on remote agents or from a remote Kubernetes cluster

    You can now select remote agents or a remote Kubernetes cluster as a location to run the test assets. You can select the remote agent as the location to run the test asset after you set up and add the remote agent or the Kubernetes cluster to your project.

  • Enhanced Jenkins plugins to run tests from a Jenkins pipeline project

    The HCL OneTest™ Server Jenkins plugins are enhanced so that you can now run tests as a job in a Jenkins Pipeline project.

  • Configuring additional Jira fields

    Jira server administrator can now configure additional fields as Required fields in the project on the Jira server to be displayed in the Raise defect in Jira window while creating a defect from HCL OneTest™ Server.

    See Creating Jira defects.

  • Collecting and viewing resource monitoring usage data

    You can create queries to retrieve monitoring usage data that is collected for a time period during a test run.

    See Collecting and viewing resource monitoring usage data, Configuring a test, Viewing resource monitoring usage data, and Creating queries for resource monitoring usage data.

  • Viewing test logs

    When a test run is complete, a test log report is generated for the tests which are configured to collect test logs data. The test log contains details about the events in the tests and their properties. See Test log viewer.

  • Querying test log data

    You can create queries to view test log data for all the test results in a project or for one particular result.

    See Test log queries and Configuring and running log queries.

  • Viewing results data in Grafana

    By using HCL OneTest™ Server and Grafana, you can retrieve and explore test log data that is generated in OneTest Server.

    See Test results data in Grafana, Installing and configuring HCL OneTest Server Results Data, and Viewing test results data in Grafana.

  • Viewing test results in Surefire format reports

    After you execute JMeter, JUnit, API, and Functional tests with advanced settings in HCL OneTest™ Server, you can view the test results in a Surefire format report by using dedicated URLs.

    See Viewing Surefire format reports.

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.