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Chapter 5. Test and Troubleshoot SOA
Composites
Testing the strategy, plan, and tactics is mission critical for any IT system implement-
ation for serving business functions. Testing automation has demonstrated its import-
ance and value by reducing the cost and time of testing the lifecycle for agile and
iterative implementation of a system. The IT system implementations that are us-
ing BPEL Process Manager are usually developed using agile and iterative imple-
mentation methodologies to quickly adjust to the business process improvements and
changes. In the case of an SOA composite with BPEL Process Manager implementa-
tions, to perform an end-to-end functional testing we often emulate external web ser-
vices as most of the time these services are not available for testing purposes. These
external web services are either invoking the SOA composite services or are invoked
by the SOA composite service implementation. BPEL Test Suite is used for creating
the test cases and emulating services required for testing. In this chapter, we will learn
how to test BPEL services and automate such tests using BPEL Test Suite.
Testing SOA composites from the EM
In the Oracle Enterprise Manager console, we can select an individual BPEL service
and test it. Click on the
Test
button to test the BPEL process service behind this
WSDL, as shown in the following screenshot:
