The initial release of the Oracle Application Testing Suite for Oracle Utilities is now available from eDelivery. This product is designed to help automate functional, regression and load testing for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products.
The product features a set of reusable components for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products that can be used within Oracle Application Testing Suite (Functional and Load Testing) to quickly build and deploy automated test scripts. The approach of using this product are as follows:
- The components are prebuilt by the product and QA teams for the Oracle Utilities products. They are the components the product teams use to test the product internally. The contain all the interfacing, verifications, parameters and are already synchronized with the version of the product they support. This reduces the need for testing component development.
- If you wish to customize a component then Oracle Application Testing Suite now includes Flow Builder which allows for components to be built or customized (they must be copied first).
- The Oracle Flow Builder part of the Oracle Application Testing Suite can be used to assemble the components into flows that match your individual business processes. This is as simple as drag and drop to put the component in the right location within the flow. Data is automatically passed between components, though the flow can be altered to cover additional data or additional verifications (for example, you can create a verification component to email you the verification report).
- Once a flow has been built, test data can be attached to complete the flow script. This can be manually entered in the UI or imported via a file such as a spreadsheet.
- The Openscript can then be generated without the need to learn coding. The code is automatically generated for you.
- You can execute the script in the OpenScript development component of the Oracle Application Testing Suite or the Test Manager product.
- The script can also be loaded into the Load Testing component of the Oracle Application Testing Suite if you wish to perform performance testing. The Load Testing component requires that the Functional Testing component is installed as well (as the source of the test scripts).
This approach uses components to a great advantage over other testing approaches:
- The components are prebuilt and tested internally by our product teams for our own product QA. You are getting access to those same components.
- As the components are certified for each release of the products then upgrading is as simple as regenerating your test flows. Oracle Application Testing Suite includes management tools to assist with that function. You simply install the new version of the components, transfer your flows over and regenerate them to use the new version of the component.
- The Oracle Application Testing Suite for Oracle Utilities will include components for each product and version it supports. It is possible to create cross product flows easily if you want.
- The Oracle Application Testing Suite for Oracle Utilities is licensed the same way as Oracle Application Testing Suite. It is licensed on Testing users, regardless of the number of targets tested against or numbers of products installed. The Load Testing component is licensed on number of simulated users.
The initial version of this testing product only supports Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management V2.2+ and Oracle Real Time Scheduler V2.2+. Other products will be added over the next few releases.
Over the next few weeks, additional material will be published about this product including best practices.