Create a simulation test to understand the effect of business changes in your
application.
For example, you can create a simulation test to investigate whether an introduction of
a new proposition affects the frequency with which your decisioning framework offers certain
propositions to customers. When you complete a simulation test, you can view its outcome as a
report in Visual Business Director or save the results to a data set for further
processing.Note: Perform this procedure if your application does not include Customer
Decision Hub. For more information. For more information, see
Simulation
testing.
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Click .
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On the Simulations landing page, click
Create.
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In the Setup section, expand the drop-down list and select the
application revision against which you want to run the simulation.
The default context is Current Application.
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In the Strategy field, press the Down Arrow key and select the Strategy rule that you
want to simulate.
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Select the input for the simulation test by performing the following actions:
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In the Input section, choose the input type by selecting the
corresponding check box.
You can select a data flow, data set, or a report definition.
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In the Input section, press the Down
Arrow key and select the rule instance of the chosen type.
You can select only the rules whose context is the same as the strategy that you
simulate.
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Edit the default simulation test ID by clicking Edit in the
Simulation ID prefix section.
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In the Purpose section, define the simulation test type by
expanding the drop-down list and selecting one of the available simulation test types, for
example, Impact Analysis.
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In the Outputs section, define the storage point of simulation
test results by performing one of the following actions:
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Configure an existing rule instance as the simulation output, click Add
Existing, and select a rule instance from the list.
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Create an output target for the simulation test, click Create
New, and provide the Name and
Type parameters of the new output target.
You can add multiple outputs to a simulation. The available output target types
are Database Table and Visual Business
Director. You can view and edit the output that you created on the
Output definitions tab.
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Clear any previous output data set before you run the simulation test by selecting the
Clear previous results for simulation test check box.
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Add reports to the simulation output by performing the following actions:
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In the Reports section, click
Configure.
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Click Add.
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In the Output column, click Add to
assign a report to an output type.
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In the Report category column, select the report category of
the report, for example VBD or
Distribution.
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In the Report column select a report to assign to the
simulation output. For example, if you selected Simulations as
the report category, you can select Channel Distribution as the
report to simulate how a new proposition is being distributed across a specific
channel.
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Click Done.
Note: If you selected Visual Business Director as the output type for the simulation
test, a corresponding Visual Business Director report is automatically added in the
Reports section.
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Perform one of the following actions:
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To save the simulation test and run it later, in the top-right corner of the
New Simulation Test screen, click
Submit.
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To save the simulation test and run it immediately, in the top-right corner of the
New Simulation Test screen, click Submit and
run.