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 Jaeger as part of HCL OneTest™ Server is removed

    The support to install Jaeger during the installation of HCL OneTest™ Server is removed.

  • Support for HCL® Compass as a change management system

    You can now create HCL® Compass records for the tests that you run on HCL OneTest™ Server, after you configure the HCL® Compass server as a change management system on HCL OneTest™ Server.

  • 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.

  • Support to run tests or resources as a GitHub Action

    You can now run tests or resources that are contained in your project on HCL OneTest™ Server as a GitHub Action from a Git repository.

    See Configuration of test runs in a GitHub Actions Workflow.

  • Creating an Edit branch to contain resources before committing to the repository branch

    When you want to create or edit datasets, test assets, virtual service resources, or resources that are associated with components in a system model, you must now create an Edit branch, which is a temporary branch that will contain these until the time you commit or publish these to a branch in the project repository or the team space repository.

  • Support to schedule recurring test runs

    You can now schedule recurring test runs on HCL OneTest™ Server.

  • Panning icon removed from the System Model page

    The Pan icon that existed previously to pan the view in the System Model page is now removed. You can now pan the view by clicking the area and moving the area in the direction you want with the left-mouse button pressed.

  • Enhancements to the HCL OneTest™ Studio extension

    When you run tests from Azure DevOps Pipeline by using the HCL OneTest™ Studio extension, you can now store the JUnit report that is generated for the test in the XML format.

    See Running HCL OneTest Server tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline.

  • Enhancements to the Jenkin plugin

    You can now view the test results by using the Test Results Analyzer feature in Jenkins if you have installed the Test Results Analyzer plugin in Jenkins. See Running tests from Jenkins.

Deprecated capabilities

You can find information about the capabilities that are deprecated in this release and are planned for a removal in a future release.
Note: You can contact the HCL Client Support team if you have any concerns.
The following feature or capability is deprecated:
  • The test authoring capability of HCL OneTest™ Server that utilizes a containerized version of the HCL OneTest™ Studio desktop authoring products to author tests and virtual services.

Removed capabilities

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.