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Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Integrations with other applications
You can integrate certain applications with HCL OneTest™ Server to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
Integration with Jenkins
You can use the HCL OneTest™ Server plugin to integrate HCL OneTest Server with Jenkins. After you complete the integration, you can run tests assets that are available in a project of HCL OneTest Server from a Jenkins server.
Running tests from Jenkins
You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.

Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find information about configuring runs for the different test types that are supported. You can also find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
- System modeling
  In this topic, you can find information about using the system model feature. You can also find the tasks that you can perform to create a system model. You must configure a repository to save the system model that you created for the application under test.
- Prerequisites to running tests
  Before you can run a test asset in a project on HCL OneTest™ Server, you must read the information about the different tests assets. You can add a remote static agent, Docker host, or Kubernetes cluster to the project and then select it as an alternate location to run the test assets.
- Management of agents
  You can find information about managing performance agents that you install on remote computers and then configure the remote agents to register with HCL OneTest™ Server. After the agents are registered, you can add them to your projects and then select them as locations to run tests.
- Management of Docker hosts
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Docker hosts. After you set up a remote Docker host, you can register the Docker host with HCL OneTest™ Server. You must then add the registered remote Docker host to your project before you can run tests on the remote Docker host location.
- Management of remote Kubernetes clusters
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on remote Kubernetes clusters. After you set up a remote Kubernetes cluster, you can register the external cluster with a team space on HCL OneTest™ Server. You must then add the remote cluster to a project before you run test assets or resources on the remote Kubernetes cluster.
- Test run configurations
  You can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server after you add the test resources to your project in your team space.
- Configuration of test runs in a GitHub Actions Workflow
  You can configure test runs of test resources that are in a project repository of HCL OneTest™ Server in a GitHub Actions Workflow. You can choose to run test resources that are in your server project in the GitHub Workflow when you do not want to run the test resources without opening the HCL OneTest Server project.
- Configuration of a scan of an application code
  You can use HCL OneTest™ Server to scan your application code for security vulnerabilities similar to using the HCL AppScan CodeSweep plugin to scan code in Visual Studio.
- Management of running tests
  Find information about the tasks that you can perform on a test that you configured for a run either while it runs or after it completes the run.
- Management of virtualized services
  You can find information about the tasks that you can perform on and manage the virtualized services that run on HCL OneTest™ Server. You can start or stop the virtual services that are connected to HCL OneTest Server. You can view the routing rules and usage statistics of virtualized services, agents, or intercepts that are connected to HCL OneTest Server.
- Test results
  After the tests, Suites, or schedules are run and completed, you can view the results and open the reports in HCL OneTest™ Server to analyze the verdict, the performance, and statistics. You can also re-execute tests and schedules from the Result page with the same commit id.
- Resource monitoring
  When you apply load to a system under test, the amount of resources consumed by your system is increasing. If the capacity of the resources does not match the load, you can see performance issues in the results. Resource monitoring in HCL OneTest™ Server helps you monitoring the resources of a system and establish the performance metrics and usage data of the system. Thus, you can observe the health of these resources while a schedule is running.
- Configuration of a change management system
  When you use any application to create and track defects (bugs), issues, or other work items, you can configure the application as a change management system on HCL OneTest™ Server. You can then create defects (bugs), issues, or other work items without the need to open your application.
- Integrations with other applications
  You can integrate certain applications with HCL OneTest™ Server to run tests, view the test results, and create defects.
  - Integration plugin compatibility matrix
    You can find information about the versions of the integration plugin that are compatible with HCL OneTest™ Server.
  - Integration with Azure DevOps
    When you use Azure DevOps for continuous integration and continuous development of your application, you can run tests created for your application and available in a project on HCL OneTest™ Server, in Azure DevOps pipelines by using the HCL OneTest Studio extension.
  - Integration with HCL® Launch
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Server with HCL® Launch to run test assets as a Process from HCL Launch.
  - Integration with IBM Engineering Test Management
    As a Project Owner, you can integrate IBM® Engineering Test Management as a quality management solution with HCL OneTest™ Server. You can run test assets that are available in a project from Engineering Test Management.
  - Integration with Jenkins
    You can use the HCL OneTest™ Server plugin to integrate HCL OneTest Server with Jenkins. After you complete the integration, you can run tests assets that are available in a project of HCL OneTest Server from a Jenkins server.
    - Task flows for running test assets from Jenkins
      You can perform certain tasks to run test assets from the Jenkins Freestyle project or the Pipeline project.
    - Installing the HCL OneTest™ Server Jenkins Plugin
      You must install the HCL OneTest™ Server Jenkins plugin on the Jenkins server before you can use the plugin for running tests that are available in your HCL OneTest Server project on the Jenkins server.
    - Using a custom trust store
      You must use a custom trust store in the Jenkins build to establish a trusted and secure connection between the Jenkins server and HCL OneTest™ Server.
    - Configuring the Freestyle project
      You must configure a Freestyle project to add a build step, and then run tests that are available in your HCL OneTest™ Server project from Jenkins.
    - Creating a pipeline script from Jenkins
      You must create a pipeline script to run test assets that are available in the HCL OneTest™ Server project from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
    - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the sample script
      You can configure a Pipeline project directly from the Jenkins UI by using the sample pipeline scripts to run test assets from Jenkins.
    - Configuring the Pipeline project by using the script from SCM
      You can configure the Pipeline project to use the pipeline script from the Source Code Management (SCM), and then run test assets that are available in the HCL OneTest™ Server project from the Jenkins Pipeline project.
    - Running tests from Jenkins
      You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.
  - Integration with UrbanCode™ Deploy
    You can integrate HCL OneTest™ Server with IBM® UrbanCode™ Deploy to run test assets as a Process from UrbanCode Deploy.
  - Integration with other applications
    You can integrate certain applications with HCL® OneTest™ Data to generate the test data.
- Managing access to the server
  Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to HCL OneTest™ Server.
- Working with HCL OneTest™ Server REST services
  When you want to use the HCL OneTest™ Server REST APIs in your test automation scripts, you can view the REST APIs that are exposed by HCL OneTest Server. You can also run the APIs from within your project in HCL OneTest Server.

Running tests from Jenkins

You can run test assets either from the Jenkins Freestyle or the Pipeline project on the Jenkins server to test an application under test.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Configured the Freestyle project, if you want to run test assets from the Freestyle project. See Configuring the Freestyle project.
Configured the Pipeline project either by using the Pipeline script or Pipeline script from SCM, if you want to run test assets from the Pipeline script project. See Configuring the Pipeline project by using the sample script or Configuring the Pipeline project by using the script from SCM.
Downloaded the latest Test Results Analyzer plugin from the Jenkinsci repository. For more information about the Test Results Analyzer plugin, refer to the Jenkins documentation.
Installed the Test Results Analyzer plugin on the Jenkins server. For more information about installing the plugin, refer to the Jenkins documentation.

About this task

After the test run is complete, you can view the test results in a tabular format when you use the Jenkins Test Results Analyzer plugin. With a TRA-based report, you can filter the results based on the status of the build. The status of the builds can be PASSED, FAILED, and SKIPPED. You can also identify the failed build from the TRA-based report and take the required action to resolve the build errors. The TRA report also represents the build information in Line, Bar, and Pie graphs so that you can easily read the data.

Procedure

Log in to the Jenkins server.
The Jenkins dashboard is displayed.
Open your Jenkins Freestyle or Pipeline project from the list.
Click Build Now to run the test assets from Jenkins.

Results

You have run the test from the Jenkins server.

What to do next

You can view the build logs by clicking the build number from the Build History pane, and then selecting the Console Output option. You can also view the history of test results in a tabular format by clicking the Test Results Analyzer option.

You can access the report URLs to view the test run information at any point in time. You can also view the test reports and logs of the test that was run on the Jenkins server from the Results page on HCL OneTest™ Server. See Test results and reports.