Oracle Application Testing Suite is a comprehensive, integrated testing solution for Web applications, Web Services, packaged

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and

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Description/History

Oracle regularly releases updates to the Oracle Application Testing Suite. These updates often include new features, improvements to existing features, and better compatibility with evolving technologies. The test solution was originally developed by RSW, who was bought by

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that created the software and

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test company Empirix. Empirix eTest Suite was acquired by

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in June 2008 and was rebranded as Oracle Application Testing Suite. The Oracle Application Testing Suite is part of the

Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) is a set of web-based tools aimed at managing software and hardware produced by Oracle Corporation as well as by some non-Oracle entities. Releases Oracle Enterprise Manager includes three releases: Oracle Enterpri ...

product family and comprises the following tightly integrated products: * Oracle Load Testing for scalability, performance and load testing. * Oracle Functional Testing for automated functional and

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. ** Oracle Flow Builder is introduced as part of Functional testing along with the Release of OATS 12.3.0 * Oracle Test Manager for test process management, including test requirements management,

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, test execution and defect tracking. Oracle Application Testing Suite also provides a series of integrated testing accelerators for testing Oracle packaged applications and SOA applications. These accelerators enable enhanced scripting capabilities for more efficient and optimized testing.

Supported technology/Applications

Web/

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, Siebel,

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, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Application Development Framework,

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, Web Services, Oracle Databases

Scripting platform

Oracle Application Testing Suite have one unified scripting platform called OpenScript. This is an

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-based scripting platform that provides a

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and the possibility to extend scripts by using

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code.

Languages

Oracle Functional Testing and Oracle Load Testing both uses the same scripting platform (OpenScript) and scripts may be extended by using the

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License models

Oracle Functional Testing is licensed based on NUP (Named User Plus). Oracle Test Manager is licensed based on NUP (Named user Plus). Oracle Load Testing is licensed based on: * Number of

processors Processor may refer to: Computing Hardware * Processor (computing) ** Central processing unit (CPU), the hardware within a computer that executes a program *** Microprocessor, a central processing unit contained on a single integrated circuit ( ...

for the Load Testing Controller * Number of virtual users to be simulated The base license covers web applications support. Additional accelerators may be licensed as needed.

Compatibility for Functional Testing

OATS (Oracle Applications Testing Suite) has evolved adding compatibility with different

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versions,

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, etc. Latest Version of 12.5 supports OATS Compatibility with JAVA, Browsers and Operating Systems

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: * Record and Playback on ** IE 8.x, 9.x, 10.x and 11.x **

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( ESR) 10.x, 17.x, 24.x and 31.x * Playback on ** Chrome 32+

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: * JRE 1.6 * JRE 1.7 * JRE 1.8

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and

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of *

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* Windows 2008 * Windows 2008 R2 * Windows 2012 Server

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