Our recent article about our internal use of automated regression testing tools within E-Business Suite Development prompted many questions about the Oracle Application Testing Suite. I'm pleased to announce that the Oracle Application Testing Suite 9.0 is supported for use with the E-Business Suite.
The Oracle Automated Testing Suite (OATS) is built on the foundation of the e-TEST suite of products acquired from Empirix in 2008. The testing suite is comprised of:
The Oracle Automated Testing Suite (OATS) is built on the foundation of the e-TEST suite of products acquired from Empirix in 2008. The testing suite is comprised of:- Oracle Load Testing for scalability, performance, and load testing
- Oracle Functional Testing for automated functional and regression testing
- Oracle Test Manager for test process management, test execution, and defect tracking
Oracle E-Business Suite Accelerators Now Available
This latest version includes new Oracle E-Business Suite Accelerators, which offer support for automated functional testing and load testing for both Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 11i and 12.
You can now create test scripts that automate both E-Business Suite Web and Oracle Forms-based screens. Using the new OpenScript graphical scripting interface, your end-users can record automated test scripts by stepping through their Oracle E-Business Suite business transactions in their browsers. You can use the same interface to run scripts, parameterize script inputs, add custom test cases to validate content and extend scripts programmatically in Java.
You can also use the same interface to create automated load test scripts for Oracle Load Testing to simulate thousands of concurrent virtual users.
When Will New Test Starter Kits be Available?
As I mentioned in a previous article, our E-Business Suite Quality Assurance teams have been working with the Oracle Application Testing Suite for some time now. We're excited about using this new set of tools, and the OATS team is even building out some new enhancements specifically for our internal Apps testing requirements.
Our EBS QA teams haven't provided any firm schedules on when our existing E-Business Suite WinRunner and QTP automated test scripts will be fully converted to OATS. The number of existing test scripts that need to be converted is very large, with separate sets of scripts that span at least three Oracle Apps releases: 11.5.10.2, 12.0.4, and 12.1.
It wouldn't be surprising if the conversion process takes some time.
I would expect that a set of new Test Starter Kits containing the OATS scripts will be released in the future, but I don't have any details about which E-Business Suite products will be covered.
You're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.
Have You Tried OATS with EBS Yet?
Our Oracle Application Testing Suite team is eager to hear about your experiences with their latest release in E-Business Suite environments. You're welcome to post your comments here, or drop me a line privately. I'll be sure to pass on your feedback and questions on to the OATS team for you.
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The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decision. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle's products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
This latest version includes new Oracle E-Business Suite Accelerators, which offer support for automated functional testing and load testing for both Oracle E-Business Suite Releases 11i and 12.
You can now create test scripts that automate both E-Business Suite Web and Oracle Forms-based screens. Using the new OpenScript graphical scripting interface, your end-users can record automated test scripts by stepping through their Oracle E-Business Suite business transactions in their browsers. You can use the same interface to run scripts, parameterize script inputs, add custom test cases to validate content and extend scripts programmatically in Java.
You can also use the same interface to create automated load test scripts for Oracle Load Testing to simulate thousands of concurrent virtual users.
When Will New Test Starter Kits be Available?
As I mentioned in a previous article, our E-Business Suite Quality Assurance teams have been working with the Oracle Application Testing Suite for some time now. We're excited about using this new set of tools, and the OATS team is even building out some new enhancements specifically for our internal Apps testing requirements.
Our EBS QA teams haven't provided any firm schedules on when our existing E-Business Suite WinRunner and QTP automated test scripts will be fully converted to OATS. The number of existing test scripts that need to be converted is very large, with separate sets of scripts that span at least three Oracle Apps releases: 11.5.10.2, 12.0.4, and 12.1.
It wouldn't be surprising if the conversion process takes some time.
I would expect that a set of new Test Starter Kits containing the OATS scripts will be released in the future, but I don't have any details about which E-Business Suite products will be covered.
You're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.
Have You Tried OATS with EBS Yet?
Our Oracle Application Testing Suite team is eager to hear about your experiences with their latest release in E-Business Suite environments. You're welcome to post your comments here, or drop me a line privately. I'll be sure to pass on your feedback and questions on to the OATS team for you.
Related Articles
The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decision. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle's products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
Comments (10)
I Recently attended a few presentations on Advanced architectures for EBS as well as VM deployments at OOW. All the available options give me plenty of choice but I would have to go through a process of load testing. My thought was, why does Oracle not write a set of load test scripts against a Vision Environment. The data is pre defined. I can then perform the Vision install against my new production configuration and bench mark it against performance figures published by Oracle.
Kind Regards
Marios
Posted by Marios Chrysohos | October 21, 2009 1:41 AM
Posted on October 21, 2009 01:41
Hi, Marios,
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll pass that on to our EBS QA teams for their consideration.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan
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October 21, 2009 12:01 PM
Posted on October 21, 2009 12:01
Can you guide me about the hardware requirements for Oracle Application Testing Suite 9.0???
Posted by Ananth Iyer | October 23, 2009 4:34 AM
Posted on October 23, 2009 04:34
This is really going to rock for people who are using oracle application
Posted by Aman Khan | October 26, 2009 8:33 AM
Posted on October 26, 2009 08:33
Hi,
I am been looking for such a product from ORACLe from long time.
I really wana explore the OATS so that I can proceed by sugesting this across.
Please provide me the details over the direct contact people and the evaluation version softwares from ORACLE.
Regards,
Vineel
Posted by vineel | October 27, 2009 12:03 AM
Posted on October 27, 2009 00:03
Hi, Vineel,
I would recommend getting in touch with your local Oracle sales team to arrange for a trial licence for Oracle Application Testing Suite. If you don't have an Oracle account manager, try the Sales Assistance contacts here:
https://shop.oracle.com
Good luck with your evaluation.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan
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October 27, 2009 10:34 AM
Posted on October 27, 2009 10:34
Hi,
We are trying to get this working on R12, but there is absolutely no information anywhere about how to get OpenScript working on Sun Plugin Forms.
Could you share the information if you have access to it please?
regards,
Maris
Posted by Maris | November 9, 2009 8:12 AM
Posted on November 9, 2009 08:12
Hi, Maris,
I'm sorry to hear that you're having difficulty with this feature. I'm not an OATS specialist, so I've passed your question on to the OATS team for assistance. They'll either reply to you directly or post an update here.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan
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November 9, 2009 9:28 AM
Posted on November 9, 2009 09:28
Hi,
OpenScript started to recognize EBS R12 forms objects after reinstallation OATS and OpenScript from patch 9042747.
Once you have downloaded this patch, unzip to a temporary directory, and run openScript900.exe. Choose Install and let the installer finish.
Thanks to
http://www.scl.com/software-quality/software-quality-resources/testing-oracle-forms-with-openscript
Regards,
Maija
Posted by Maija | November 10, 2009 12:37 AM
Posted on November 10, 2009 00:37
Hi, Maija,
Glad to hear that you're moving again. Thanks for sharing that tip with our readers. Our OATS team is working on improving their documentation so that this is less of a mystery for E-Business Suite users.
I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences with this tool.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan
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November 11, 2009 2:02 PM
Posted on November 11, 2009 14:02