This document discusses automatic testing of APEX applications. It describes different types of tests including acceptance tests, integration tests, and unit tests. It advocates for automating these tests using tools like Selenium to reduce time to market, find defects early, and improve test coverage. Automating unit tests in PL/SQL, integration tests using APIs and components, and acceptance tests using criteria like performance and functionality are proposed. Testing APEX applications with Selenium is demonstrated.

1. Automatic for the People
End to end automated testing of your APEX application
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4. Test Types
Acceptance Tests
Integration Tests
Unit Tests

5. How Do You Test (theory)?
Business facing
Are we building the right system?
Acceptance
Tests
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Are we building the system right?
Technology facing
Integration Tests
Unit Tests

6. How Do You Test (practice)?
Acceptance Tests
Integration Tests
Unit Tests
Unit Tests

7. Why?
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8. We Want More Fun!

9. Why Automate?
• Reduce time to market
• Find defects early
• Find more defects (coverage)
• Less boring ... more fun !
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10. Automating Unit Tests
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11. PL/SQL

12. SPECIFICATIONS

22. TEST CODE
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CODE TO TEST

24. Automating Integration Tests
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25. API Tests
Integration Tests
Component Tests
Unit Tests

26. Automating Acceptance tests
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27. CRITERIA
PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONALITY

28. PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONALITY
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33. CRITERIA
PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONALITY

34. PERFORMANCE FUNCTIONALITY

37. Testing APEX with
Selenium
DEMONSTRATION
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38. R C
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JavaScript
to emulate user actions Export Test Case/Suite as ...

39. Accessibility API

40. Selenese

41. More (very) Advanced Options
• Mobile support
• Grid - Testing browser / OS combinations
• Actions like drag & drop
• HTML5 - AppCache, Local Storage, Connection status
• Screenshots
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42. What, When And How?
multiple OS
multiple browsers
stable specs
huge customer base high risk
Manual 100% automated coverage
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43. Q A
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