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Evolutionary Steps for Automated Testing for E-Business Suite

My, how time flies.  It's been over two years since I last covered automated regression testing for the E-Business Suite. Our strategy for this area continues to evolve, so it's high time for an update.

The E-Business Suite Test Starter Kits consist of sample test scripts from our own E-Business Suite QA group, along with a Starter Guide, Best Practices Guide, and Installation instructions.  The test scripts were created against an EBS Vision Demo database displaying American English.  You can use these kits as a model for building out your own automated regression tests for your Apps environment.

Back in 2006, you could download our Quality Assurance teams' automated WinRunner QA scripts for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i via a Test Starter Kit.  A few things have changed since then:

• Microsoft released IE 8, which is incompatible with WinRunner
• Hewlett-Packard desupported WinRunner in July 2009
• We released Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 

Test Starter Kits for WinRunner are Still Available

If you're still using WinRunner, you'll be pleased to learn that you can still download:

• WinRunner Test Starter Kit for Release 12.0.4 - Patch 6799654
• WinRunner Test Starter Kit for Release 12.0 - Patch 5845794
• WinRunner Test Starter Kit for Release 11.5.10.2 - Patch 4520701
• WinRunner Test Starter Kit for Release 11.5.10 - Patch 4064542
• WinRunner Test Starter Kit for Release 11.5.9 - Patch 2983563
• WinRunner Test Starter Kit for Release 11.5.8 - Patch 2739616
• WinRunner Test Starter Kit for Release 11.5.7 - Patch 2471695

New Test Starter Kits for QTP are Available

If you've switched over to HP's QuickTest Professional (QTP) testing set of tools, you can now download the following new Test Starter Kits:

• QTP Test Starter Kit for Release 12.1.1 - Patch 8408886
• QTP Test Starter Kit for Release 12.0.4 - Patch 6845309
• QTP Test Starter Kit for Release 12.0 - Patch 5845799
• QTP Test Starter Kit for Release 11.5.10.2 - Patch 4611398
• QTP Test Starter Kit for Release 11.5.10 - Patch 4355248
• QTP Test Starter Kit for Release 11.5.9 - Patch 3313315

Only a subset of the E-Business Suite products with automated WinRunner scripts have QTP equivalents; the READMEs for the respective kits have more details about their contents.

The master list of Test Starter Kits available for Apps is published in:

• Test Starter Kit Information Center (Note 239746.1)  

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