The document introduces cookies and how they are handled in Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester. It discusses the two types of cookies - persistent and session cookies. It also describes how the cookie handling options can be configured on a per-script basis and the implications of these settings for stand-alone versus linked scripts.

1. Cookie Handling Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester

2. Cookies Cookie: Information that a Web site puts on your hard disk so that it can remember something about you at a later time. There are two different types of cookies: Persistent cookie: Stored in a file on the user’s machine, good until expiration date. Session cookie: Lasts only for the duration of the browser’s session. Cookies can significantly affect the UI presentation of a Web Site. “Edit / Reset Browser State” clears session cookies.

3. Use Distinct Cookie Directory By default the “Use Distinct Cookie Directory” is selected The distinct cookie directory keeps all of the e-Tester cookies separate from the IE browser cookies.

4. Cookie Handling Options To change the cookie handling options: Select Options/Current Script/Playback The “Playback/Script Options” screen contains cookie handling options that are set on a per script basis.

5. Clear Session Cookies Start New Browser Session Before Playback: Clears all session cookies from the e-Tester browser. Reset Browser to Original State Before Playback: Closes all external e-Tester windows before playback.

6. Delete Persistent Cookies Delete Persistent Cookies Before Playback: Deletes the cookies written to the e-Tester cookie directory. Default options need to be changed when creating linked scripts. More on this later.

7. Stand-Alone Scripts All stand-alone scripts should reset the browser and remove all cookies in order to ensure that the scripts play back consistently. Stand-alone scripts should always reset the browser before recording, to clear any session cookies. To reset the browser, select Edit/Reset To Original State

8. Linked Scripts When recording, it is common to repeat actions across multiple scripts. Login Script Sell Script Research Script Home Page Login Log Out Sell a Stock Confirm Sale Research a Stock Stock Search Results Company Details Home Page Login Log Out Home Page Login Log Out

9. Linked Scripts When actions are repeated, it may make sense to create smaller scripts and link them together. Logout Script Login Script Sell Script Research Script Home Page Login Sell a Stock Confirm Sale Research a Stock Stock Search Results Company Details Log Out

10. Linked Scripts In the previous example, the “Sell” script and “Research” script have been modified from their original format Each script no longer contains the login or the log off Functionality Instead Login and Log Off have become completely separate scripts The “Sell”, “Research” and “Log Off” scripts can all execute following a successful login. The “Sell” and “Research” scripts can execute following any successful script execution except the “Log Out” script.

11. Linked Scripts The linking of scripts allows multiple combinations of the same scripts. For example: Log in, log off Log in, sell, log off Log in, research, log off Log in, sell, research, log off Log in, research, sell, log off Log in, sell, sell, sell, log off

12. Think About Linked Scripts When linking scripts, it is important to maintain cookies across all of the scripts. In the previous example: The login script should clear cookies and reset the browser. The sell, research, and logoff script should NOT clear cookies or reset the browser.

13. Think About Linked Scripts Benefits of Linked Scripts Allows the tester to focus load on specific functionality when using e-Load. Allows for shorter scripts. Drawbacks of chaining scripts together May require more maintenance if used for functional testing.

14. Job Scheduler Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite

15. Job Scheduler Job Scheduler can execute scripts on a scheduled basis and play scripts in e-Tester unattended Job Scheduler is useful when: Scripts must be run on each new release. Batching linked scripts. .

16. Job Scheduler Wizard - Step 1 Select scripts you want to execute from any Workspace Select scripts from multiple workspaces Arrange the play order of added scripts

17. Job Scheduler - Step 2a Customize the error message to report the results of the job execution.

18. Job Scheduler - Step 2b Set up email notification to report the results of the job Can send both and HTML summary and text log of results Can specify multiple email recipients Separate email addresses with comma or semicolon

19. Schedule Jobs Schedule the days and times to execute the job by: Dragging the jobs to the schedule Double-clicking on the schedule

20. Schedule Jobs Job Scheduler will control the execution of the job at the scheduled time. All scripts in the job are executed Jobs can be run on an ad-hoc basis

21. Using Job Scheduler Configure email settings for sending results “Tools/Configure Mail Server” Setup either SMTP or MAPI send options View job results through a browser display “Results/View Job Report” Send playback results to the Virtual User Display “Results/Virtual User Display”

22. Miscellaneous Options Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester

23. Comparison Exclusion Enables exclusion of certain web page components from playback content comparison. Comparison exclusion can be applied to HTML URL Scripts Elements Uses regular expression syntax

24. Regular Expressions A standardized syntax that specifies a textual pattern Example A: 2:15PM 11/12/2003 Example B: 12:45AM 5/5/1902 Similarities between Example A and B are that they represent a time/date stamp Both use the same format of ##:##$$ ##/##/#### where # is any digit and $ is any alpha character.

25. Regular Expressions Regular expressions have some commonly used switches “*” The preceding character occurs 0 or more times. “+” The preceding character occurs 1 or mor times. “\” The succeeding character is a literal, therefore always used and not variable. “[]” are used to specify a range of characters to use “|” used as “OR”

26. Regular Expressions Regular Expressions can be used to specify a pattern to simulate the previous examples of 2:15PM 11/12/2003 and 12:45AM 5/5/1902 This is the pattern: [0-9]+:[0-9]+[A|P]M [0-9]+\/[0-9]+\/[0-9]+ If there were any other similarities between the two numbers, a less generic pattern could have been used

27. Comparison Exclusion Options The Content tab allows the user to specify textual patterns to ignore within the HTML document For example: Time/Date Stamps, Rotating Links/Images

28. Comparison Exclusion Options The content tab allows the user to specify textual patterns to ignore within the HTML document For example: time/date stamps, rotating links/images

29. Comparison Exclusion Options The URL Parameter tab allows the user to ignore parameter information passed within URL’s

30. Comparison Exclusion Options The URL Parameter tab allows the user to ignore parameter information passed within URL’s

31. Comparison Exclusion Options Many applications pass dynamic information in the query string of the URL. A query string encompasses everything following the “?” in a URL. The following is an example: http://www.oracle.com/default.jsp?jSessionID=ffsu2sdr1 In this case the “jSessionID=ffsu2sdr1” is the query string.

32. Comparison Exclusion Options In the previous example, the value, “ffsu2sdr1” is dynamic. If the whole string changes and it’s name is the only static item, “jSessionID=*” can be added to the “URL Parameter Filters” section. “*” may also be used as a wildcard in this example. If the value “ffsu2sdr1” changes dynamically, but only the value following “ffsu2” changes, a regular expression can be used in the URL “Parameter Value Filters” section.

33. Comparison Exclusion Options The URL sub path tab allows the user to ignore a portion of the URL

34. Comparison Exclusions Options A URL Subpath is a word used by Oracle Application Testing Suite to mean any portion of the URL between slashes. For example: http://www.oracle.com/AKDR1asd34/default.jsp “ www.oracle.com,” “AKDR1asd34,” and “default.jsp” all are considered URL subpaths. Any subpath text pattern that is updating dynamically can be added to the URL subpath section.

35. Comparison Exclusions Summary Regular Expressions help users specify textual patterns. It’s commonly used in, but not limited to, Unix and Perl Empirix uses Regular Expressions to help the Oracle Application Testing Suite ignore dynamically changing data This functionality allows the QA Engineer to be highly specific in what is ignored in a dynamically updating web page

36. Siebel Support Options/Current Script/Advanced/Siebel Support Enable Siebel Support

37. Settings Manager Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester

38. Settings Manager Settings can be applied at various levels: Global Workspace Script Page Select the Options/Settings Manager/and so on… menu option. Be careful when changing settings here. There should be a specific reason for modifying settings here.

39. Settings Manager Select level on which to apply the setting Select Advanced in the Filter section to display all settings

40. Java Applets Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester

41. Java Applets e-Tester has the ability to test Java Applet applications on two predominant Java Virtual Machines (JVM): Microsoft Sun (versions 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1) To use the Sun JVM, install the Java Plugin 1.3 (or higher) from http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/

42. Recording Java Applets e-Tester automatically captures user interaction with applets.

43. Java Options Select Options/Current Script/Advanced/Java Applets Choose the Default Support (Recommended) option. To use Sun Applets, check the Sun Plug-in Applet Version 1.3 checkbox.

44. Java Object Node An java or object node is displayed in the tree view of the visual script for applets.

45. Page Snapshot When recording Java applets, actions can be executed without a page navigation occurring. e-Tester records page actions after each navigation. To capture Applet navigations manually: Click on the Snap the current state of the page button. Select Run/Record/Page Snapshot.

46. Windows Event Recorder In order to record interactions with Flash and Active X, the Windows Event Recorder must be used Either select from the toolbar or Run > Record > Start Windows Event Recorder The recorded actions are coordinate based

47. Workshop Browse to http://localhost/fmstocks Navigate through pages building a script that buys, researches and sells stocks. Build multiple sections for “modular” construction in job scheduler Apply data banking, manual tests and data driven tests and any or all items learned during our time together.

48. Support Customer Support Center http://metalink.oracle.com