Automated Unit Testing

You can use Automated Unit Testing to simplify and increase the speed of unit testing certain aspects of your Pega 7 Platform applications. As a result, you can be more agile about determining when your development process requires corrective action

For example, in a typical situation, an application has a number of work item types and the flows that process those work items. Subsequent development work changes one of those flows. The intended changes made to that one flow might have unintended effects on the other work item types and flows of the application. In this situation, the ability to efficiently unit test for unexpected results and assess the extent of the changes is important so that corrective action can be taken if the new behavior is not wanted. Automated Unit Testing provides the ability to quickly discover and address such unanticipated effects.

Your operator ID must have the AutomatedTesting privilege through an access role, so that you can use Automated Unit Testing to perform and automate unit testing of the following rule types:

• Activities
• Decision tables
• Decision trees
• Flows
• Service SOAP

You can do the following actions:

• Record a test run through an individual rule and then save the data that you used and the results of the run as a test case. If a rule is subsequently modified and you want to verify its behavior, you can run its saved test case rather than manually entering the test data again.
• Specify that a group of test cases are to be run together, potentially in a specific sequence, by creating a unit test suite.
• Schedule unit test suites to be run either once or periodically.
• View reports that display the results of running unit test suites in the Automated Unit Testing landing page.

Pegasystems offers an additional application to support testing, known as the Test Management Framework. Contact your Pegasystems representative to learn more.

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