2. Test Framework in PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8
Test Framework in PeopleSoft PeopleTools 8.52 Test Creation, Optimization and Maintenance
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4. Program Agenda Feature Overview Testing Types Optimization
8.52 enhancements

5. PeopleSoft Test Framework: Feature Overview

6. Feature Overview
PeopleTools Test Framework is tied to PeopleTools Metadata

7. PeopleSoft Test Framework Tables
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.

8. 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).

9. Feature Overview Record and Playback feature
Used by Users, Super-Users and Developers

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

13. Feature Overview
Interaction with Rowsets

14. Feature Overview
Interface with other PeopleTools

15. Feature Overview
Integrated Maintenance and Coverage Reports

16. Feature Overview
DEMO

17. PeopleSoft Test Framework: Testing Types

18. Types of Tests Testing Strategies Unit System
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.

19. Types of Tests Testing Strategies Integration Parallel Regression
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.

20. Types of Tests Testing Strategies Performance User Acceptance
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.

21. PeopleSoft Test Framework: Optimization

22. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
Modify your steps within your test, these four steps log you onto the PeopleSoft application.
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.

23. PeopleSoft Test Framework
When you record a test you often record unneeded steps
You might need to correct typos that might appear in your test

24. 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.

25. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
Message Toolbar
Displays details about an object in the application, including name, object type, and value.

26. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
Variables
Store a value for a variable in a parameter in the Recognition field on the step.

27. PeopleSoft Test Framework
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.

28. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
#LIST#
Reserved word LIST will check for the values of a ComboBox. It works either on full text entries or translation values.

29. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization – Reserved Words
#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.

30. PeopleSoft Test Framework
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.

31. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
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.

32. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
Application Messaging
Use the Message Recognition feature to indicate that PTF should click OK whenever that specific message appears in the application

33. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
Message Recognition Dialog Box

34. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
Process Execution Prior to Optimization
Process Execution After Optimization

35. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
TEST.EXEC calling other tests

36. PeopleSoft Test Framework
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

37. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Optimization
SHELL TESTS using TEST.EXEC to call other tests

38. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Scroll Handling
Data in a PeopleSoft component is organized hierarchically using rowsets, or scrolls, and rows.

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

40. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Log Administration

41. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Move Test Assets using a Project

42. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Change Impacts
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

43. PeopleSoft Test Framework
The Maintenance Process
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.

44. PeopleSoft Test Framework
The Maintenance Process
1. Define analysis rules.

45. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Maintenance Reports
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.

46. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Maintenance Reports
Step 1: Manual Steps

47. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Maintenance Reports
Step 2: Analyze Compare Data

48. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Maintenance Reports
Step 3: Generate Report

49. PeopleSoft Test Framework
A test maintenance report in BI Publisher format:

50. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Coverage Report format:

51. PeopleSoft Test Framework
A test coverage report in PIA format:

52. Feature Overview
DEMO

53. PeopleSoft Test Framework: 8.52 Enhancements

54. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Recorder Toolbar
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.

55. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Cases
You can export and import your test cases to a file to work with large amounts of test case manipulation.

56. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Test Cases

57. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Persistent Variables
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.

58. PeopleSoft Test Framework
System variables are predefined variables that PTF populates at runtime
System Variables

59. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Functions

60. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Recording Get_Property Steps

61. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Recording Get_Property Steps

62. PeopleSoft Test Framework
Recording Message Recognition

63. Feature Overview
DEMO

64. PeopleSoft Test Framework
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