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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

Performing end-to-end testing


It is very important to start testing Data Objects and reports earlier in the development life cycle for your BAM applications. Once the data quality and report functionality have been verified, it is the time to conduct end-to-end testing to verify the message flow and performance.

End-to-end testing is an application-level testing that verifies the system components integration and the complete flow of data under normal or load conditions. When performing the end-to-end testing for BAM applications, you should focus on the following areas:

  • Verification of data flow (Active Data processing)

  • Verification of performance under load conditions

Testing Active Data processing

Oracle BAM leverages the push-based mechanism to deliver continuous data changes to frontend web browsers in real time. So, testing the whole message flow to ensure the Active Data processing functionality is critical for the quality assurance purpose.

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