Inflectra and Alexey Grinevich invite you to the presentation slides of our live webinar on Testing OracleForms Applications with Rapise, originally premiered on November 16, 2021. WEBINAR AGENDA: During the webinar the participants will learn: - Preparing for testing. Installing testing agent. - Using with IE. - Using with JNLP. - Special Cases: LOVs and Notification Messages. - Working with Tables. WEBINAR PRESENTER: Alexey Grinevich is a Software Developer at Inflectra Corporation. He is one of the creators of the Rapise test automation tool. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and has been working in the IT industry for the past 20 years in areas such as compilers, computer languages, runtime debuggers. For the last ten years, the major interest is software for automated testing. At Inflectra, Alexey has been responsible for researching the tools, technologies, and processes in the software testing and quality assurance space for the past five years. His special interest is legacy APIs and desktop system testing. See the full webinar recording on our youtube channel! >> https://www.youtube.com/c/Inflectracorporation

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WEBINAR: Testing OracleForms with
Rapise
• November 16th, 2021 – Alexey Grinevich,
alexey@inflectra.com
We will be starting the webinar shortly, please stand
by…
All phones will be automatically on mute until the Q&A.

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Hey, I am Alexey
• Working on Rapise test
automation tool @Inflectra
• Over 20 years in software
development
• 12 years in test automation
• Email: alexey@Inflectra.com

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Plan
 About Oracle Forms
 About Rapise support for Oracle Forms
 Enabling Automation
 Preparing Application URL
 Preparing Environment Variables
 Launching from IE
 Launching from Java Web Start (.jnlp)
 Recording & Playing the Test
 Working with Table
 Working with LOV
 Working with Notifications
 Working with Status Bar

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Yes, we know that
 OracleForms is
 Retro style
 Old school
 Forms 3.x – MS DOS
 Formx 4.x – GUI version for
Windows 3
 Current version if Forms 12c

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Rapise Supports
 Rapise supports Oracle Forms 9i and higher
 Rapise version 7.1.24.50 or higher
 Application needs to be configured to enable testing

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Getting Started
 https://rapisedoc.inflectra.com/Guide/oracleforms_testing/
 OR
 Go to rapisedoc.inflectra.com
 Search for “Oracle Forms”

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Preparing Java
 Make sure you use x86 version of JRE
 Instrument JRE
 Run as Administrator

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Preparing Application
 URL
 In IE: append &record=names to the URL
 In .jnlp file, do the same, but with escape: &record=names :
…
<param name="serverURL"
value="/forms/lservlet?ifcfs=/forms/frmservlet?form=mainformmdi&#38;record=
names&#38;config=webstart&#38;ifsessid=&#38;acceptLanguage=en-
US,en;q=0.9"/>
…

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Self Check
 Longer start time – application being instrumented
 Java Spy - _o_f_accessibilityDescription for any
VButton

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Recording

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OracleForms Global Objects
 Main Menu
 Status Bar
 Notifications
 LOVs

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MDI Window Close
 Use Action->Exit or other ways to close

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Show LOV
 Don’t use editor button
 Use Edit->List of Values menu
 Or Ctrl+L
 Or SoftKey

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Status Bar
 OracleForms.GetStatusMessage
 May be scripted

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IE & Java Web Start
 Launching AUT from test - .bat file
 Record .jnlp & play in IE

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Summary
 Preparing Application:
 URL with record=names
 _JAVA_OPTIONS
 x86
 Instrument Java
 Run AUT as admin
 Recording
 OracleForms object
 Java Web Start and IE

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Q&A
Thank You!

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Next Webinar
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 Presenter: Alexey Grinevich – automation expert at Inflectra
 On November 30, 2021