Running Functional tests in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

After you create the tests in HCL OneTest™ UI for the application that you are testing, and after you install the HCL OneTest Studio extension in your organization, you can run the tests in Azure DevOps pipelines.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Installed the HCL OneTest Studio extension in your organization. See Installing the HCL OneTest Studio extension.
Installed an agent in your pipeline. See Azure Pipelines agents.

About this task

After you add the HCL OneTest Studio extension in your Azure DevOps organization, you can use an existing pipeline or create a new one to add HCL OneTest™ UI test tasks. You can install an agent or use the one that you installed in your default agent pool. You can add the HCL OneTest™ UI tests to your task for the agent job, configure the task, and then run the task in the Azure DevOps pipeline.

If you have created test cases under test plans in your Azure DevOps project, you can provide the details of the Azure DevOps URL, test plan, test case, and your personal access token (PAT) while you configure the test job in a pipeline so that you can view the results of the test run on your Test Plan dashboard.

Procedure

Open your Organization page in Azure DevOps and perform the following steps:
1. Click the project you want to use.
2. Initialize the repository by performing the following steps:
  1. Click Repos from the left pane.
  2. Click Initialize from the Initialize with a README or gitignore section.
    Note: Select the Add a README check box if it is not selected.
3. Click Pipelines from the left pane.
4. Click Create Pipeline.
5. Click Use the classic editor to create a pipeline without YAML.
6. Verify the project, repository, and branch for manual and scheduled builds, and then click Continue.
7. Click Empty job.
Select Pipeline and complete the following steps:
1. Change the name for the build pipeline if required.
2. Select the Agent pool for your build pipeline.
  
  You can use the agent from the default agent pool or use the one you have installed.
3. Select the Agent Specification for the agent if required.

Add a task to the agent job by completing the following steps:

Click the Add Task icon for the agent job.

The Add tasks pane is displayed.

Search for the HCL tasks defined in the HCL OneTest Studio extension.

The tasks that you can select are displayed.

HCL Task selection in Azure DevOps

Depending on the type of test that you have created in HCL OneTest™ UI, you can select the type of task. You must use the following table to identify the task you must select:

Type of test	Task to select
Functional test scripts	HCL OneTest UI Task

Select the HCL OneTest UI Task option, and then click Add to add the task to the agent job.

The selected task is added to the agent job and it is displayed with a warning that some settings require attention. You must configure the settings mentioned in Step 4.

You can also remove the tasks that are not required in your job. Select the tasks in the list that you want to remove. You can then right-click the tasks, and click Remove selected task(s) to remove them.

Configure the settings by performing the following steps:

Select the task version from the list if required.

Follow the action for the Functional task by referring to the following table:

Note: All mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*) in the UI.


Field	Description	Action
Display name	Displays the name of the selected task.	Enter the name of the task.
Testcase Type	The type of test to execute.	Select Web UI from the Testcase Type list.
Product Path	The fully qualified path to the HCL OneTest™ UI. This path must exist on the agent computer.	Enter the complete path of HCL OneTest™ UI.
Project Name	The name of the project containing the test.	Enter the name of the project containing the test.
Project Directory	The path where the project containing the test is located on your computer.	Enter the complete path to the location of the project containing the test. For example, D:\Projects\
Test Suite Name	The name of the functional test script that you execute without the file extension.	Enter the name of the script that you want to run. For example, `script1`.
Log Format	The format of the script logs.	Select the format of the script log from the list. Note: By default, `Default` is selected.
Iteration Count	The number of datasets iterations to be run.	Enter the number that you want for the dataset iterations.
User Arguments	You can specify additional arguments that you want to run in the test.	Specify any arguments for the test run. For example, you can specify the playback arguments, if applicable in your test.

Expand Control Options and configure the settings for your task if required.
Expand Output Variables and configure the settings for your task if required.

Select the following options:
1. Click Save to save the configured settings for the task.
  
  Note: The task is not queued for a run.
  
  You can save the task to a build pipeline and opt to run the build at a later time.
2. Click Save & queue to save the configurations and queue the run in the pipeline.
  
  The Run pipeline dialog box is displayed.
Complete the following steps:
1. Enter a comment for the test in the Save comment field.
2. Select the agent that you configured for the test from the Agent pool list.
3. Select the agent specification from the Agent Specification list for the agent if required.
4. Select the branch from the Branch/tag list.
5. Add the variables and demands for the task run from the Advanced Options pane if required.
6. Select the Enable system diagnostics check box for a detailed log view.
7. Click Save and run.
  
  The pipeline summary page displays the progress of the job run.

Results

You have run the tests for the application you are testing, in the Azure DevOps pipeline.

What to do next

You can open the job to view the task logs from the pipeline summary page.

You must click the task to open the Task page to view the test results.

In HCL OneTest™ UI, if the HCL OneTest™ Server URL is configured in Window > Preferences > Test > HCL OneTest Server and Publish result after execution is set as Always in Window > Preferences > Test > HCL OneTest Server > Results, then the logs in the Task page also displays the names of the published report along with its corresponding URLs. The report URLs are the HCL OneTest™ Server URLs where the reports are stored. You can access the report URLs to view the test execution information at any point of time.