C-2409 C-1493 You can test a map value rule as a unit, before
or after it is integrated into the rest of the application you are
developing. B-17319 circumstance NORIR
Preparation
- Review the Applies To key part and Pages & Classes tab of the rule, to identify the
class of the pages that the map value rule uses for input and the
properties involved in the rule.
- When feasible, perform any necessary processing to create or load
a clipboard page or pages that supply some or all of the properties
needed. For example, if the Applies To class involves
a work type, you can open a work object of the corresponding class.
Unit testing does not alter these pages.
- For more comprehensive testing, create one or more model rules
that load various sets of input values.
Test approach
For basics of unit testing, see Unit testing a rule with the Run
toolbar button.
- Save the Map Value form.
- Click the Run toolbar button (
) or the equivalent keyboard shortcut CTRL
+ R to open a guided test window.
- The system presents a list of clipboard pages that may match the
Applies To key part. Select the clipboard page that
is to be a major source of values for the rule. If no page of the
appropriate type is present, select Create or Reset Test
page. (If this map value rule applies to an embedded page,
identify a top-level page that contains the embedded page or pages and
supply a Page Context. VAGUE C-2560)
-
In the Apply field, select a
model rule to be applied to the empty test page.
- If the rule being tested is circumstance-qualified, select
Set circumstance properties to run exact version of
rule. Otherwise, the base version or a different
circumstance-qualified version may be the one tested.
- Click Create
Page and Run Rule . The
system makes a temporary copy of the page you selected (or creates a
new temporary page and applies the model rule), executes the map value
rule, and displays the result.
- Click the link labeled Result Decision Paths to
redisplay the Matrix tab with a green
background for the cell that produced the test result. C-1637
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- Click Show
Clipboard to start the
Clipboard tool within this page. Any changes you make with the
Clipboard tool to pages involved in testing do not affect normal
processing. Click Hide Clipboard to
close the tool. B-20333B-20454 rejected not
refreshed
- Click Run
Again to repeat the
test.
- Repeat as desired, selecting different model rules or altered
clipboard contents.
About Map Value rules
How to unit test a map value rule