The ShortenSpot Blog is Moving
Over the last few weeks, we have been making changes to improve the usefulness of the technical information for Oracle Utilities products. To this end this blog will be retired and moving under the...
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Using Batch Level Of Service
In past articles I discussed the Batch Level Of Service capability and one of the most important questions I am asked is how to best implement this for on-premise and cloud implementations. Here are...
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UTA - A Different Approach to Automation
The Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator was introduced over a year ago and the tool continues to be popular with customers and is included in all Oracle Utilities SaaS Cloud Services available on...
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UTA - Building Custom Content Whitepaper available
It is possible to extend the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator with custom components and custom libraries. This allows customers to include their extensions that may not be supported by a base...
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UTA - Test Strategy Whitepaper available
The Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator uses a unique approach to test automation for Oracle Utilities products, which uses techniques and content used at Oracle, to reduce risk and cost in taking...
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UTA - Installation Summary
The installation of an on-premise version of Utilities Testing Accelerator (UTA) has been improved upon in both versions 6.0.0.1.0 and 6.0.0.2.0 to allow customers to quickly establish product...
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Performance Troubleshooting Guides Updated for latest information
A few years ago I published a set of guides for Performance Troubleshooting Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products for on-premise implementations. These guides outlined the metrics and...
View ArticleOracle Utilities Reference Model content available in Utilities Testing...
Oracle is delighted to announce the availability of exclusive content within Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator for the Oracle Utilities Reference Model. This means that the Oracle Utilities Testing...
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UTA 6.0.0.2.0 Features - Iterative Execution Support
In Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator 6.0.0.1.0, the server based execution engine was introduced, as the default execution engine, to complement the original Eclipse based engine. This engine was...
View ArticleNew version of Enterprise Manager for Oracle Utilities available
With the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.4, the Enterprise Manager for Oracle Utilities has been re-certified and updated to take advantage of the new and exciting capabilities of Oracle...
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Understanding the difference between infrastructure and application
One of the most common sets of questions I get from partners and customers are things like "How do I set up Load Balancing with your products?" or "How do link my security repository to your...
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UTA 6.0.0.2.0 Features - Flow Test Data Set Support
In Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator 6.0.0.1.0 we introduced the concept of saved and reusable Component Test Data Sets which represents reusable test data at a component level. The idea is that as...
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UTA 6.0.0.2.0 - Installing the Product
The installation of an on-premise version of Utilities Testing Accelerator has been improved upon in both versions 6.0.0.1.0 and 6.0.0.2.0 to allow customers to quickly establish product environments....
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UTA 6.0.0.2.0 Features - Flow Subroutines
One of the most innovative new capabilities introduced into the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator (6.0.0.2.0 and above) is the support for Flow Subroutines. The key concept to understand that it is...
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Utilities Testing Accelerator 6.0.0.2.0 Available
Oracle is delighted to announce the release of the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator (UTA), known as Version 6.0.0.2.0, is now available for licensed customers to use. This release is significant as...
View ArticleClarification of Application Management Pack for Oracle Utilities
As the Product Manager for a number of products including Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Utilities, the Oracle Enterprise Manager plugin for managing Oracle Utilities Application...
View ArticleSee You at the Edge Conference in London
For customers and partners attending the Oracle Utilities Customer Edge Conference in London next month, I will be presenting the Cloud and Technology sessions this year.The cloud sessions will cover...
View ArticleHash Keys and Security
One of the features that has been changed over the last few releases of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework has been security. To keep up with security requirements across the industry, the...
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Cube Viewer - Designing Your Cube
In the last Cube Viewer article we outlined a generic process for building a cube, but the first step on this process is to actually design the data we want to analyze in the cube. A common...
View ArticleUTA Components and License Restrictions
The Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator is fast becoming a part of a lot of cloud and on-premise implementations as partners and customer recognize the value of pre-built assets in automated testing...
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