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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By : Pete Wang
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Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook

By: Pete Wang

Overview of this book

An integral component of Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) ultimately empowers business executives to react quickly to changing business situations. BAM enables business service and process monitoring through real-time data streaming and operational reports, and this book helps you to take advantage of this vital tool with best practice guidance for building a BAM project."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is an essential companion for advancing your BAM knowledge, with troubleshooting and performance tuning tips to guide you in building BAM applications. The book uses step-by-step instructions alongside a real world demo project to steer you through the pitfalls of report and application development. Packed with best practices, you'll learn about BAM migration, HA configuration and much more."Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" comprises a myriad of best practices for building real-time operational dashboards, reports and alerts. The book dives straight into the architecture of Oracle BAM 11g, before moving swiftly onto concepts like managing BAM server securities, populating Data Objects and performing load testing. Later on you'll also learn about BAM migration and building an ADF-based report, plus much more that you won't want to miss. For focusing in on best practices for this integral tool within Oracle SOA and BPM Suite, "Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook" is the perfect guide for the job.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 5. Testing BAM Applications

Testing is a very important phase in the software development lifecycle for BAM applications. Testing BAM applications carries unique challenges, and requires a specialized approach. However, the testing function for this highly dynamic technology area is at a very early stage of maturity.

In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:

  • Introducing BAM testing methodologies

  • Testing BAM Data Objects

  • Testing BAM report views

  • Performing end-to-end testing

Introducing BAM testing methodologies

In this section, you will learn the challenges for testing BAM applications, and the testing methodologies for BAM.

First of all, let's take a look at the challenges for testing BAM applications:

  • Lack of knowledge: Testing BAM applications requires testers to gain a thorough understanding of BAM key concepts, such as Data Object/report design principles, the technologies used for populating Data Objects, Active Data processing, and so on.

  • Lack of tools: There are no...