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Test Framework in PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52Test Creation, Optimization and Maintenance

Ding GangOracle University Principal Instructor


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Program Agenda

Feature Overview

Testing Types

Optimization

8.52 enhancements


PeopleSoft Test Framework:

Feature Overview


Feature Overview

PeopleTools Test Framework is tied to PeopleTools Metadata


Framework

PSPTTSTOPTIONS- Identifies the profiles of high level sign-on information for the test framework.

Test Definition

PSPTTSTDEFN- Identifies the tests and the folder in which the test is organized.

PSPTTSTCOMMAND- Identifies each step of a test case.

PeopleSoft Test Framework Tables


Test Data “Test Case”

PSPTTSTCASE- Header table for test cases. PSPTTSTCASEVAL- The detail data for each test case - data values for each command/step.

Test Log

PSPTTSTLOG_LIST - The header table for the logs of test case runs. Identifies the test, the test case, and the high level results.

PSPTTSTLOG_LNS - The detail results of each step of a test case run. PSPTTSTLOG_IMG – Stores image captures of each page when a test step is logged as failing. PSPTTSTLOG_OPTS – Stores the options used to run a test, such as URL and user id. PSPTTSTLOG_XTRA - Stores information about the environment that was used to run a specific test

(part of log).

PeopleSoft Test Framework Tables


Feature Overview

Record and Playback featureUsed by Users, Super-Users and Developers


Robust Test Development Platform

A PTF test consists of a series of steps. When you record a test, PTF creates one step for each action you take against the target application.


PeopleSoft Test Framework Log Whenever you run a test, PTF creates an execution log entry. The log is located in PTF Explorer under the test name, in the log folder specified in Execution Options.


PeopleSoft Test Framework Log entries in the Logs folder of PTF Explorer:


Feature Overview Interaction with Rowsets


Feature Overview

Interface with other PeopleTools


Feature Overview

Integrated Maintenance and Coverage Reports


Feature Overview

DEMO



Testing Types


Types of Tests

Unit– Validates data, business rules, and business process requirements.

System– Tests all processes, including online functionality, batch functionality,

inbound and outbound interfaces, conversions, customizations, and reports.

Testing Strategies


Types of Tests

Integration– all business processes and groups of related business processes within the

application to determine whether they function as designed.

Parallel– Optionally performed throughout all testing stages.

Regression– Retests the previous tests.

Testing Strategies


Types of Tests

Performance– Measures your current system performance against the new release-level

performance.

User Acceptance– Validates data, business rules, and business process requirements in the test move

to production phase.

Testing Strategies



Optimization


Test Optimization

Using Test Optimization you can replace these four steps listed above with one step using Browser.Start_Login.

This action opens the browser instance where the test will be executed and logs into the PeopleSoft application using the URL, user ID, and password from the selected execution option.

Modify your steps within your test, these four steps log you onto the PeopleSoft application.

PeopleSoft Test Framework


PeopleSoft Test FrameworkWhen you record a test you often record unneeded steps

You might need to correct typos that might appear in your test


PeopleSoft Test Framework Test Optimization

#PREFIX#

Reserved word substitutes the text in the Prefix field for the string in the Value field.

You can run the test again with a different value, only needing to change the value in the Prefix field.



Message Toolbar– Displays details about an object in the application, including name, object type, and

value.

Test Optimization



Variables– Store a value for a variable in a parameter in the Recognition field on the step.

Test Optimization



Refer to the values stored in a variable in two ways:– Use a Conditional.If_Then step

– Use the variable in the value field of a step that sets or verifies the value.

Test Optimization


PeopleSoft Test FrameworkTest Optimization

#LIST#

Reserved word LIST will check for the values of a ComboBox. It works either on full text entries or translation values.



#CHECK# - Checks a value in an object against the expected value defined in the PTF test. Updates the value if no match exists.

#DIS#- Checks whether an object is display-only. #DTTM - Enters the current date and time into an application. #EXIST# and #NOTEXIST# - Checks whether a field exists or does not exist

on a page. #FAIL# and #WARN# - Same as #CHECK# but does not update the value. If

the values do not match, PTF logs a Fail or Warning. #IGNORE - Place the #IGNORE reserved word in the Value field of a

Test.Exec step to skip the call to the child test.

Test Optimization – Reserved Words



#LIKEF# and #LIKEW#- Matches strings using LIKE. If no match exists, PTF logs a Fail or Warning. PTF does not update the value.

#LIST#- Checks the values in a drop-down list box. Use a | to separate items in the Value field.

#NOTHING- Deletes a value in the object or verifies that it is blank. If the object is a ComboBox and the action is Set_Value, then PTF selects a blank item.

#PREFIX#- Substitutes the text in the Prefix field in the Test Editor for #PREFIX# in the Value field.

#TODAY- Enters the current date.

Test Optimization – Reserved Words



Page Prompting

PTF page prompting steps make tests more robust and repeatable by simplifying test data and replacing it with intelligence built into the step.



Application Messaging

Use the Message Recognition feature to indicate that PTF should click OK whenever that specific message appears in the application



Message Recognition Dialog Box



Process Execution After Optimization

Process Execution Prior to Optimization



TEST.EXEC calling other tests



Shell Tests

A type of test that you use primarily to call other tests.

Shell Tests support the following options:

Test.Exec - calling other tests

DataMover.Exec – calling data mover scripts

Query.Exec – running queries

Variable.Set_Value – manipulating variables



SHELL TESTS using TEST.EXEC to call other tests



Scroll Handling

Data in a PeopleSoft component is organized hierarchically using rowsets, or scrolls, and rows.



Scroll Handling

You can use the Scroll.Key_Set action and a Scroll.Action step to locate a row by key and generate a dynamic position index variable.

You can use the dynamic position index variable to reference a row or a field reliably and repeatedly because the variable is regenerated each time the test is run.

PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) references a field in a scroll by the field name and the row number.



Log Administration



Move Test Assets using a Project



When an application is upgraded, testers face two major challenges:

– Identifying which tests will fail because of changes in the target application.

– Identifying gaps in test coverage where new functionality was introduced.

PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF) delivers two tools that enable test developers to help in determining the effect of changes:

– Test maintenance reports

– Test coverage reports

Change Impacts



The maintenance process consists of these steps: 1. Define analysis rules. 2. Create a compare report based on an upgrade project. 3. Analyze the compare data. 4. Generate a maintenance report. 5. Identify tests that reference changed objects. 6. Modify impacted tests. 7. Generate a test coverage report. 8. Create or modify tests to cover coverage gaps.

The Maintenance Process



1. Define analysis rules.

The Maintenance Process



Use the Create Test Maintenance Report wizard to run test maintenance reports. The wizard consists of three steps:

Step 1: Manual Steps Step 2: Analyze Compare Data Step 3: Generate Report.

Test Maintenance Reports



Step 1: Manual Steps




Step 2: Analyze Compare Data




Step 3: Generate Report




A test maintenance report in BI Publisher format:



Test Coverage Report format:



A test coverage report in PIA format:


Feature Overview

DEMO



8.52 Enhancements



With the new Test Recorder Toolbar you now have the ability to record some of your optimization steps while you are recording the test script.

Test Recorder Toolbar


PeopleSoft Test FrameworkTest Cases

You can export and import your test cases to a file to work with large amounts of test case manipulation.


PeopleSoft Test FrameworkTest Cases



If you need to store variables between tests, use persistent variables. PTF stores persistent variables to the database so that subsequent test executions can use them.

Enable persistent variables in execution options, on the Advanced Options tab. You must also enable persistent variables in the test properties for each test. Once a persistent variable is read from the database, it is a Global variable,

and its value is available to any other test, regardless of whether the test is enabled to read persistent variables.

Persistent Variables



System Variables

System variables are predefined variables that PTF populates at runtime



Functions



Recording Get_Property Steps



Recording Message Recognition


Feature Overview

DEMO



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