Overview

This section introduces Business Process Testing, provides information about basic implementation techniques, and describes workflows for working with Business Process Testing.

This section also includes BPT Packaged Apps Kit for learning components and detecting changes in packaged apps, such as SAP products.

Note:  

  • For details on on configuring user permissions, see the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management Administrator Guide: Manage user groups and permissions.

  • For details on installing and setting up BPT Packaged Apps Kit, and on configuring user permissions, see the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management Administrator Guide: Manage user groups and permissions.

  • ALM Editions:  Business Process Testing is available with ALM Edition and Quality Center Enterprise Edition. For more information about ALM editions and their functionality, see the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: ALM Editions. To find out what edition of ALM you are using, ask your ALM site administrator.

The most efficient way to manage functional testing activities is to work in a consistent way using a testing framework. Business Process Testing provides you with a customizable, component-based testing framework that supports:

  • You can create both manual and automated steps for each component, and if desired, synchronize between the steps.

  • You can migrate from manual to automated testing.

  • You can use a keyword GUI method for creating automation without coding. This method generates easy-to-understand test documentation automatically.

Component reuse and modularization keep costs low by speeding up test creation, maintenance, and execution.

An application under test can be a simple, HTML-based web application or a complex business process involving packaged applications such as SAP or Oracle, and back-end services and databases.

The testing framework is flexible enough to meet the needs of various personas, such as manual testers, automation engineers, and subject matter experts.

Business Process Testing helps you document your components and tests, including screenshots illustrating how they should be used, and so on. This makes it easy for people with different roles and skill sets to share each others' assets.

Example:  

  • Business process tests can be created by non-technical subject matter experts who best understand the business processes that need to be tested, without the need for a programming background.
  • Automation engineers can prepare object hierarchies and application-specific functions and then package these hierarchies and functions as building blocks for use in business process tests by subject matter experts.

Managing parts of a test includes component documentation, test execution results, version control, reporting, and history. Additionally, you can generate documents containing information about the tests, flows, and components in a project.

You can define keywords and components before the application has been delivered for testing, so you can design tests earlier in the software development lifecycle.

You can test applications manually before automated tests are ready. This facilitates quick implementation of business process tests.

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Automation engineers can access Business Process Testing functionality directly from their testing tool, in an environment with which they are familiar.

ALM users can create business process tests in an environment with which they are familiar.