In this presentation the APEX Quality Assurance Plugin will be demonstrated. It’s a Plugin based on APEX 4.2, which gives every person who works with APEX, an easy and powerful opportunity to define your own Testing rules. These rules can be defined in SQL-Syntax to support every possibility for a rule defined in the database. On the one hand rules against the apex repository like using no “never condition” or don’t use a help label without a help text can be defined. On the other hand also checks against the whole database dictionary or checking contents of tables are possible. The Plugin is easy to install and will bring a start set of rules by installation with it. When the Plugin is installed, it can be used on the Global Page to be shown up on every single APEX page to show all problems on that special page which is developed. Many more Ideas will be shown, like combining the plugin with a scheduler job and/or sending summaries from every page to the developers by mail which can be really helpful. Overall it’s an easy and fast way to find bugs while you are developing and it’s far more powerful and adjustable tool then the APEX Advisor.

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The APEX QA Plugin
Oliver Lemm
Competence Center Leader APEX
Seattle, 24.06.2014

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About me
 Oliver Lemm, Competence Center Leader APEX
 Born in 1980, married, two daughters
 Studied Applience Science 2001-2006
 Since 02/2007 employed at MT AG in Ratingen
 Working with APEX since its inception back in 2007
 Responsible for project-leading and archtitect for APEX projects
- https://apex.mt-ag.com & http://oliverlemm.blogspot.com
- Organizing APEX UserGroup Düsseldorf
 You can find me here:
- Online: Xing, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google plus
- Offline: DOAG Conference, DOAG Development Conference, ODTUG
Kaleidoscope, Regional APEX UserGroup (Meetup)
Kscope 2014, Seattle3

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Agenda
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1. The Requirements
2. The Concept
3. Region Plugin vs. Process Plugin
4. Live Demo
5. The Implementation
6. Conclusion & Perspective
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The Requirements
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The Requirements
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Reusable
Flexible
Easy to
use
Easy to
deploy
Integrated

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The Concept
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The Concept
Every check
a rule
Categories
Objecttypes Message
Comment
Exclude
Activate /
deactivate Layer
Predecessor
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The Concept
 Support new Developers
 Show the problems in Realtime when developing
 Support Developer & Tester
 Get the complexity of the application
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Region Plugin vs. Process Plugin

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Region Plugin vs. Process Plugin
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Livedemo
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Livedemo - Install the Plugin
1. Download @ Apex-plugin.com
2. Extract
3. Go to your application and Import the plugin
APEXregion_type_plugin_com_mtag_olemm_qa_region.sql
4. Install the Database Objects, using SQL Workshop
plugin_qa_install.sql
5. Import the Rules, using SQL Workshop
DMLplugin_qa_rules.sql
6. Go to Global Page and Region Region Plugin
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Plugin Preferences
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Default Values used

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Livedemo @ apexea.oracle.com
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The Implementation
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The Implementation
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Plugin
Configuration
Region
Attr.
Plugin
Attr.
Package
Render
Region
Execute
Process
Edit
Link
Run
Rules
Type Table
Rules

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The Rule Table – PLUGIN_QA_RULES
 PIQA_ID Primary Key
 PIQA_NAME Name of the Rule, Unique Key
 PIQA_CATEGORY APEX, DDL or DATA
 PIQA_OBJECT_TYPES ITEM:REGION:DA:BUTTON:..
 PIQA_ERROR_MESSAGE Message which comes up when hitting the rule
 PIQA_EXCLUDE_OBJECTS objects which should not be checked
 PIQA_ERROR_LEVEL 1=Error, 2=Warning, 4=Information
 PIQA_IS_ACTIVE 1=active / 0=deactivated
 PIQA_SQL rule based on SQL with maxlength of 32767 char
 PIQA_PREDECESSOR_IDS colon delimited ID‘s which has to throw no msg
 PIQA_LAYER rule on PAGE or APPLICATION level
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Example Rule - LOV Extra Values ‚YES‘
piqa_name Display Extra Value is Yes
piqa_category APEX
piqa_object_types ITEM
piqa_error_message Display Extra Value is Yes
piqa_comment Identifiy LOV Items with Extra Values YES
piqa_exclude_objects null
piqa_error_level 2
piqa_is_active 1
piqa_sql <query>
piqa_predecessor_ids null
piqa_layer PAGE
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Example Rule – LOV Extra Values ‚YES‘ - Query
with param as (select :1 piqa_id, :2 app_id, :3 page_id from dual)
select t_plugin_qa_rule( piqa_id => piqa.piqa_id
,piqa_category => piqa.piqa_category
,piqa_error_level => piqa.piqa_error_level
,piqa_object_type => piqa.piqa_object_types
,piqa_error_message => piqa.piqa_error_message
,object_id => aapi.item_id
,object_name => aapi.item_name
,object_value => aapi.lov_display_extra
,object_updated_user => aapi.last_updated_by
,object_updated_date => aapi.last_updated_on
,apex_app_id => aapi.application_id
,apex_page_id => aapi.page_id
,apex_region_id => aapi.region_id)
from plugin_qa_rules piqa
join param p on p.piqa_id = piqa.piqa_id
join apex_application_page_items aapi on aapi.application_id = p.app_id and aapi.page_id = p.page_id
where aapi.display_as = 'Checkbox' and aapi.lov_display_extra = 'Yes'
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Other included rules for Example
 Display Dynamic Actions
 Help Labels without Help
 Label Alignment left
 Named LOV
 No Never Condition
 Page is Public
 Page without ALIAS
 Page without Pagegroup
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Using the Plugin
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• Region
Global
Page
• APEX_Application.g_edit_cookie_session_id IS
NOT NULLVisibility
• Mailing
• DBMS_SchedulerJob

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Conclusion & Perspective
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Comparison
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QA
Plugin
Advisor
Application
Tracker
External
Tools

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Perspective
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Features
Import
Export
Advisor
Aggregation
Icons
Logs

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Conclusion
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helpful flexible
Easy entry expandable
APEX QA
Plugin

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Conclusion
Use It
Create your
Rules
Give
Suggestions
back
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Book Recommendation
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Telefon:
Telefax:
E-Mail:
www.mt-ag.com
Thanks for your patience…
Competence Center Leader APEX
+49 2102 30961-164
+49 2102 30961-10
Oliver.Lemm@mt-ag.com
Oliver Lemm