Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Oracle plans to offer assemblies for all its products, which will allow you to deploy any Oracle product, including
packaged applications, in a few clicks. Oracle Enterprise Manager can notify you of the availability of new assemblies
so you can download them if you are interested.
Testing in the Cloud
Applications, as parts of assemblies or by themselves, need to be tested before they can be deployed into production.
Applications need to be tested for functionalities as well as for performance during potential heavy loads. Oracle
Enterprise Manager 12c Application Testing Suite, which includes Oracle Functional Testing, Oracle Load Testing, and
Oracle Test Manager, offers a comprehensive testing solution for your Oracle applications, middleware, and databases.
Before you deploy the application in production, it is important to test it at full load to ensure that the application
will be able to handle that load during its peak activity period. The Oracle Enterprise Manager load-testing tool allows
you to simulate heavy loads with different combinations of concurrent users of different modules. The result from
load testing is presented as a graphical report, similar to that shown Figure
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Figure 5-9.
Oracle Enterprise Manager load -testing report
A unique aspect of the testing solution is the ability to capture a production load and replay it in a test environment,
allowing you to test your application with a real production workload. This technology has been available as the Oracle
Real Application Testing feature for some time with the Oracle database. EM12c introduced a similar solution for
automated application testing called Application Replay. Unlike traditional application testing tools, Application Replay
uses real production workloads to generate a load against applications under testing and does not require any script
development or maintenance. It provides a best-of-breed approach for validating application infrastructure changes for
all your Web and packaged Oracle applications.
