Contents

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Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Getting Started With OpenScript

• 1.1 OpenScript Features
• 1.2 Installing OpenScript
• 1.3 Starting the OpenScript Workbench
• 1.4 Overview of the OpenScript Main Window (Workbench)
  • 1.4.1 Tester Perspective
  • 1.4.2 Developer Perspective
  • 1.4.3 OpenScript Menu Options
    • 1.4.3.1 File
    • 1.4.3.2 Edit
    • 1.4.3.3 Search
    • 1.4.3.4 Script
    • 1.4.3.5 View
    • 1.4.3.6 Run
    • 1.4.3.7 Tools
    • 1.4.3.8 Help
    • 1.4.3.9 Navigate
    • 1.4.3.10 Project
    • 1.4.3.11 Window
  • 1.4.4 OpenScript Tool Bar
  • 1.4.5 Script View
    • 1.4.5.1 Tree View
    • 1.4.5.2 Java Code
  • 1.4.6 Details View
  • 1.4.7 Problems View
  • 1.4.8 Properties View
  • 1.4.9 Console View
  • 1.4.10 Results View
  • 1.4.11 Navigator and Package Explorer Views
  • 1.4.12 Debug View
  • 1.4.13 Variables and Breakpoints Views
• 1.5 About Multi-User Execution
• 1.6 About Script Assets

2 Setting Preferences

• 2.1 Setting OpenScript Preferences
• 2.2 Correlation Category
  • 2.2.1 Module Correlation Preferences
  • 2.2.2 Add Library
  • 2.2.3 Add/Edit Rule
• 2.3 General Category
  • 2.3.1 General Preferences
  • 2.3.2 Browser Preferences
  • 2.3.3 Encryption Preferences
  • 2.3.4 Repository Preferences
• 2.4 Playback Category
  • 2.4.1 General Playback Preferences
    • 2.4.1.1 General
    • 2.4.1.2 Error Handling
    • 2.4.1.3 System
  • 2.4.2 Debug Preferences
  • 2.4.3 Error Recovery Preferences
    • 2.4.3.1 General
    • 2.4.3.2 Functional Test
    • 2.4.3.3 HTTP
    • 2.4.3.4 Oracle Forms Functional Test
    • 2.4.3.5 Oracle Forms Load Test
    • 2.4.3.6 Utilities
    • 2.4.3.7 Web Functional Test
  • 2.4.4 Functional Test Preferences
    • 2.4.4.1 Object Enumeration
    • 2.4.4.2 Browser
  • 2.4.5 HTTP Preferences
    • 2.4.5.1 Proxy
    • 2.4.5.2 Compression
    • 2.4.5.3 Headers
    • 2.4.5.4 Connections
    • 2.4.5.5 SSL
    • 2.4.5.6 Other
    • 2.4.5.7 Download Manager
  • 2.4.6 Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Preferences
    • 2.4.6.1 Event Timeout
    • 2.4.6.2 Miscellaneous
  • 2.4.7 Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Preferences
    • 2.4.7.1 Miscellaneous
  • 2.4.8 Shared Data Service Preferences
  • 2.4.9 Web Functional Test Preferences
    • 2.4.9.1 Object Timeout
    • 2.4.9.2 Miscellaneous
    • 2.4.9.3 Capture Screenshot Interval
    • 2.4.9.4 Object Tests
• 2.5 Record Category
  • 2.5.1 General Preferences
  • 2.5.2 HTTP Preferences
    • 2.5.2.1 General
    • 2.5.2.2 Proxy Settings
    • 2.5.2.3 URL Filters
  • 2.5.3 Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Preferences
    • 2.5.3.1 General
    • 2.5.3.2 Object Identification
  • 2.5.4 EBS/Forms Load Test Preferences
  • 2.5.5 Siebel Functional Test Preferences
    • 2.5.5.1 General
    • 2.5.5.2 Object Identification
  • 2.5.6 Web Functional Test Preferences
    • 2.5.6.1 General
    • 2.5.6.2 Object Identification
  • 2.5.7 Web Services Preferences
    • 2.5.7.1 General
    • 2.5.7.2 Parser Tools
    • 2.5.7.3 Proxy Configuration
• 2.6 Step Group Category
  • 2.6.1 ADF Functional Test Preferences
  • 2.6.2 Basic Module Preferences
  • 2.6.3 HTTP Preferences
  • 2.6.4 Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Preferences
  • 2.6.5 Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Preferences
  • 2.6.6 Siebel Functional Test Preferences
  • 2.6.7 Siebel Load Test Preferences
  • 2.6.8 Web Functional Test Preferences
• 2.7 Setting Project Preferences

3 Creating and Modifying Scripts

• 3.1 Creating Repositories and Workspaces
  • 3.1.1 Creating a Repository
  • 3.1.2 Managing Repositories
  • 3.1.3 Managing Folders
  • 3.1.4 Managing Scripts
• 3.2 Creating a Script Project
  • 3.2.1 Opening Existing Scripts
    • 3.2.1.1 Opening Older Scripts in OpenScript
    • 3.2.1.2 Migrating Older Scripts in OpenScript
    • 3.2.1.3 Running Mixed Versions of Scripts
    • 3.2.1.4 Multiple Users Opening Scripts
  • 3.2.2 Migrating Scripts
  • 3.2.3 Setting Script Properties
    • 3.2.3.1 Correlation
    • 3.2.3.2 Modules
    • 3.2.3.3 Script Assets
    • 3.2.3.4 Step Groups
  • 3.2.4 Importing Oracle Real User Experience Insight (REUI) Session Logs
• 3.3 Modifying Scripts
  • 3.3.1 Adding Step Groups to a Script
  • 3.3.2 Adding a Delay to a Script
  • 3.3.3 Adding a Log Message to a Script
  • 3.3.4 Adding a For Statement to a Script
  • 3.3.5 Adding a Function to a Script
  • 3.3.6 Adding Script Assets
  • 3.3.7 Adding a Script to Run from a Script
  • 3.3.8 Adding a Set Variable to a Script
  • 3.3.9 Adding Comments to Script Results
  • 3.3.10 Adding Error Recovery to a Script
    • 3.3.10.1 Script Types
    • 3.3.10.2 Constants
    • 3.3.10.3 Actions
  • 3.3.11 Verifying Script Actions
    • 3.3.11.1 Adding an Error Recovery Action
    • 3.3.11.2 Adding a Has Error Control Statement
    • 3.3.11.3 Adding a Result Object Message
    • 3.3.11.4 Actions That Can Be Verified
  • 3.3.12 Chaining Multiple Scripts
    • 3.3.12.1 Setting the Browser Preferences
    • 3.3.12.2 Recording Scripts
    • 3.3.12.3 Creating a Shell Script
  • 3.3.13 Moving Nodes in a Script
• 3.4 Changing Text File Encoding
• 3.5 Debugging Scripts
  • 3.5.1 Adding Views to the Tester Perspective
  • 3.5.2 Adding Breakpoints to a Script
  • 3.5.3 Adding a Java Exception Breakpoint
  • 3.5.4 Pausing and Resuming Script Playback in Debug Mode
  • 3.5.5 Inspecting and Changing Script Variable Values
• 3.6 Enabling Debug Logging

4 Using Databanks

• 4.1 Understanding Data Driven Testing (Parameterization)
• 4.2 Using Script Databanks
• 4.3 Configuring Databanks
• 4.4 Getting Databank Records

5 Using the Web Functional Test Module

• 5.1 About the Web Functional Test Module
  • 5.1.1 Key Features of the Web Functional Test Module
• 5.2 Recording Web Functional Tests
  • 5.2.1 Setting Web Functional Test Record Preferences
  • 5.2.2 Adding/Editing Object Identifiers
    • 5.2.2.1 Available Attributes for Web DOM Elements
  • 5.2.3 Recording Web Functional Test Scripts
• 5.3 Playing Back Scripts
  • 5.3.1 Setting Web Functional Test Playback Preferences
  • 5.3.2 Playing Back Web Functional Scripts
  • 5.3.3 Playing Back Web Functional Scripts with Iterations
• 5.4 Modifying Scripts
  • 5.4.1 Adding Browser Navigation to a Script
  • 5.4.2 Adding Web Actions on Browser Objects
  • 5.4.3 Adding Object Libraries to a Script
  • 5.4.4 Adding a Server Response Test
  • 5.4.5 Adding Text Matching Tests to a Script
  • 5.4.6 Adding Object Tests
  • 5.4.7 Adding Table Tests
  • 5.4.8 Adding a Wait for Page
  • 5.4.9 Inspecting Object Paths
  • 5.4.10 Setting Script Properties
  • 5.4.11 Substituting Databank Variables
• 5.5 Editing Object Libraries
  • 5.5.1 Using the Web Functional Test Module API

6 Using the HTTP Module

• 6.1 About the HTTP Module
  • 6.1.1 Key Features of the HTTP Module
• 6.2 Navigation Editing (Correlation)
  • 6.2.1 Setting Correlation Preferences
  • 6.2.2 Adding Correlation Libraries
  • 6.2.3 Adding and Editing Correlation Rules
    • 6.2.3.1 Client Set Cookie
    • 6.2.3.2 Correlate Cookie Header
    • 6.2.3.3 Correlate Header
    • 6.2.3.4 Correlate Referer Header
    • 6.2.3.5 DOM Correlation Rules
    • 6.2.3.6 Function/Text Substitution Rules
    • 6.2.3.7 Substitute Recorded Date
    • 6.2.3.8 Variable Substitution Rules
    • 6.2.3.9 XML DOM Correlation Rules
• 6.3 Recording Scripts
  • 6.3.1 Setting HTTP Record Preferences
  • 6.3.2 Recording a New HTTP Script
• 6.4 Playing Back Scripts
  • 6.4.1 Setting HTTP Playback Preferences
  • 6.4.2 Playing Back HTTP Scripts
  • 6.4.3 Playing Back HTTP Scripts With Iterations
  • 6.4.4 Viewing Script Playback Results
  • 6.4.5 Resetting Encoding
  • 6.4.6 Comparing Recorded/Playback Results
  • 6.4.7 Playing Back HTTP Scripts In Oracle Load Testing
  • 6.4.8 Posting Binary or XML File Data
• 6.5 Modifying Scripts
  • 6.5.1 Understanding the HTTP Module Script View
  • 6.5.2 Using Script Variables
  • 6.5.3 Adding a Variable to a Script
  • 6.5.4 Adding a Solve XPath to a Script
  • 6.5.5 Finding a Variable in a Script
  • 6.5.6 Deleting Variables from a Script
  • 6.5.7 Adding Authentication to a Script
  • 6.5.8 Adding Text Matching Tests to a Script
  • 6.5.9 Adding Server Response Tests to a Script
  • 6.5.10 Substituting Databank Variables
  • 6.5.11 Substituting Post Data Variables
  • 6.5.12 Adding a Cookie to a Script
  • 6.5.13 Removing a Cookie From Script
  • 6.5.14 Adding a User Agent to a Script
• 6.6 Adding Navigation
  • 6.6.1 Understanding Navigation Editing (Correlation)
  • 6.6.2 Adding HTTP Get Navigation
  • 6.6.3 Adding HTTP Post Navigation
  • 6.6.4 Adding an HTTP Multipart Post Navigation
  • 6.6.5 Adding an HTTP XML Post Navigation
  • 6.6.6 Using the HTTP Module API

7 Using the Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Module

• 7.1 About the Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Module
  • 7.1.1 Key Features of the Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Module
  • 7.1.2 Prerequisites
• 7.2 Recording Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Tests
  • 7.2.1 Setting Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Record Preferences
  • 7.2.2 Adding/Editing Object Identifiers
  • 7.2.3 Recording Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Scripts
• 7.3 Playing Back Scripts
  • 7.3.1 Setting Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Playback Preferences
  • 7.3.2 Playing Back Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Scripts
  • 7.3.3 Playing Back Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Scripts with Iterations
• 7.4 Modifying Scripts
  • 7.4.1 Adding Forms Actions
  • 7.4.2 Using the Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Module API

8 Using the Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Module

• 8.1 About the Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Module
  • 8.1.1 Key Features of the Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Module
  • 8.1.2 Prerequisites
• 8.2 Recording Oracle EBS/Forms Load Tests
  • 8.2.1 Setting Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Record Preferences
  • 8.2.2 Recording Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Scripts
• 8.3 Playing Back Scripts
  • 8.3.1 Setting Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Playback Preferences
  • 8.3.2 Playing Back Oracle EBS/Forms Load Scripts
  • 8.3.3 Playing Back Oracle EBS/Forms Load Scripts with Iterations
• 8.4 Modifying Scripts
  • 8.4.1 Adding Forms Actions
  • 8.4.2 Converting Forms Actions to XML Messages
  • 8.4.3 Using the Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Module API
• 8.5 Setting Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Correlation Preferences
• 8.6 Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Correlation Library
• 8.7 Troubleshooting Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Scripts
  • 8.7.1 Debugging Using the Message Log
    • 8.7.1.1 During Recording
    • 8.7.1.2 Format of the Recorded Log
    • 8.7.1.3 During Playback
    • 8.7.1.4 After Playback
  • 8.7.2 Analyzing Message Logs
  • 8.7.3 Resolving "Component does not exist" Errors
  • 8.7.4 Troubleshooting Forms ifError Messages

9 Using the Oracle Fusion/ADF Functional Test Module

• 9.1 About the Oracle Fusion/ADF Functional Test Module
  • 9.1.1 Prerequisites
  • 9.1.2 Key Features of the Oracle Fusion/ADF Functional Test Module
• 9.2 Configuring the ADF Server
  • 9.2.1 Configuring the WEB-INF/web.xml File
  • 9.2.2 Configuring the trinidad-config.xml File
• 9.3 Recording Oracle Fusion/ADF Functional Tests
  • 9.3.1 Recording Oracle Fusion/ADF Functional Test Scripts
• 9.4 Playing Back Scripts
  • 9.4.1 Playing Back Oracle Fusion/ADF Functional Scripts
  • 9.4.2 Playing Back Oracle Fusion/ADF Functional Scripts with Iterations
• 9.5 Modifying Scripts
  • 9.5.1 Adding Fusion/ADF Actions
• 9.6 Oracle Fusion/ADF Functional Test Module API

10 Using the Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Test Module

• 10.1 About the Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Test Module
  • 10.1.1 Key Features of the Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Test Module
• 10.2 Recording Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Tests
  • 10.2.1 Recording Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Test Scripts
• 10.3 Playing Back Scripts
  • 10.3.1 Playing Back Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Scripts
  • 10.3.2 Playing Back Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Scripts with Iterations
• 10.4 Setting Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Test Correlation Preferences
• 10.5 Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Test Correlation Library
• 10.6 Oracle Fusion/ADF Load Test Module API

11 Using the Web Services Module

• 11.1 About the Web Services Module
  • 11.1.1 Key Features of the Web Services Module
• 11.2 Creating Web Services Scripts Using WSDL Manager
  • 11.2.1 Creating the Web Services Script Tree
  • 11.2.2 Adding WSDL Files to the WSDL Manager View
  • 11.2.3 Adding Methods to the Script Tree
  • 11.2.4 Editing Method Parameters in the Details View
• 11.3 Modifying Scripts
  • 11.3.1 Adding a Web Services Post Navigation
  • 11.3.2 Adding a Text Matching Test
  • 11.3.3 Adding Security Extensions
  • 11.3.4 Adding Attachments
• 11.4 Recording Web Services Scripts
  • 11.4.1 Setting Web Services Record Preferences
  • 11.4.2 Recording Web Services Scripts

12 Using the Siebel Functional Test Module

• 12.1 About the Siebel Functional Test Module
  • 12.1.1 Key Features of the Siebel Functional Test Module
• 12.2 Functional Testing Siebel Applications
  • 12.2.1 Prerequisites
  • 12.2.2 Setting up the Siebel Test Environment
  • 12.2.3 Enabling Siebel Test Automation
    • 12.2.3.1 Siebel 7.x
    • 12.2.3.2 Siebel 8.x
  • 12.2.4 Script Creation Techniques
  • 12.2.5 Setting Browser Options
  • 12.2.6 Starting the Siebel Application
  • 12.2.7 Determining a Siebel Component Type
• 12.3 Recording Siebel Functional Test Scripts
  • 12.3.1 Setting Siebel Functional Test Record Preferences
  • 12.3.2 Adding/Editing SI Element and Site Map Link Paths
  • 12.3.3 Adding/Editing Object Identifiers
  • 12.3.4 Recording Siebel Functional Test Scripts
• 12.4 Modifying Scripts
  • 12.4.1 Adding Siebel Actions

13 Using the Siebel Load Test Module

• 13.1 Load Testing Siebel Applications
  • 13.1.1 Prerequisites
  • 13.1.2 Setting Up Siebel Load Test Environments
    • 13.1.2.1 Basic Configuration
    • 13.1.2.2 Floating Load Balancing Test Server
    • 13.1.2.3 Clustered Web Server Configuration
    • 13.1.2.4 Clustered Siebel Servers Configuration
    • 13.1.2.5 Clustered Database Server Configuration
  • 13.1.3 Siebel Correlation Library
  • 13.1.4 Script Creation Techniques
  • 13.1.5 Recording Scripts for Load Tests
  • 13.1.6 Starting the Siebel Application
  • 13.1.7 Playing Back Scripts
  • 13.1.8 Resolving Script Issues
    • 13.1.8.1 Siebel Entities to Parameterize
  • 13.1.9 Using Databanks with Siebel
  • 13.1.10 Preparing the Siebel Server Manager Commands
    • 13.1.10.1 Creating the Batch File
    • 13.1.10.2 Creating the Command Input File
    • 13.1.10.3 Siebel Statistics
    • 13.1.10.4 Batch File Location
  • 13.1.11 Defining ServerStats Metrics
  • 13.1.12 Defining a ServerStats Configuration
  • 13.1.13 Importing Pre-Configured Metrics and Profiles to Oracle Load Testing
  • 13.1.14 Running Load Tests in the Oracle Load Testing Console
    • 13.1.14.1 Viewing VU Grid
    • 13.1.14.2 Viewing ServerStats
  • 13.1.15 Generating Graphs and Reports Using Oracle Load Testing
    • 13.1.15.1 Creating Custom Runtime Graphs
    • 13.1.15.2 Creating Custom Reports
• 13.2 Setting Siebel Correlation Preferences
• 13.3 Siebel Correlation Library
• 13.4 Siebel Script Functions

14 Using the Utilities Module

• 14.1 About the Utilities Module
  • 14.1.1 Key Features of the Utilities Module
• 14.2 Using Text File Processing
  • 14.2.1 Reading Lines of Text from a File
  • 14.2.2 Reading Text from a CSV File
  • 14.2.3 Reading Text from an XML File
• 14.3 Getting Values from a Database
• 14.4 Using the XPath Generator

15 Using the Shared Data Module

• 15.1 About the Shared Data Module
  • 15.1.1 Key Features of the Shared Data Module
• 15.2 Setting Shared Data Preferences
• 15.3 Using the Shared Data Service
  • 15.3.1 Enabling the Shared Data Service
  • 15.3.2 Setting the Password Encryption
  • 15.3.3 Setting the Connection Parameters
  • 15.3.4 Using The Shared Data API

A Command Line Reference

• A.1 Specifying Command Line Settings
• A.2 Supported Agent Command Line Settings
  • A.2.1 General Settings
  • A.2.2 Browser Settings
  • A.2.3 HTTP Settings
    • A.2.3.1 Proxy
    • A.2.3.2 Compression
    • A.2.3.3 Headers
    • A.2.3.4 Connections
    • A.2.3.5 Other
    • A.2.3.6 Download Manager
  • A.2.4 Functional Test Settings
  • A.2.5 Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Test Settings
  • A.2.6 Oracle EBS/Forms Load Test Settings
  • A.2.7 Shared Data Settings
  • A.2.8 Web Functional Test Settings
  • A.2.9 Error Recovery Settings
    • A.2.9.1 General
    • A.2.9.2 Functional Testing
    • A.2.9.3 HTTP
    • A.2.9.4 Oracle EBS/Forms Functional Testing
    • A.2.9.5 Oracle EBS/Forms Load Testing
    • A.2.9.6 Web Functional Testing
    • A.2.9.7 Utilities

B Error Message Reference

• B.1 Basic Module Error Messages
  • B.1.1 General Script Exceptions
  • B.1.2 Binary Decoding Exceptions
  • B.1.3 Script Creation Exceptions
  • B.1.4 Segment Parser Exceptions
  • B.1.5 Script Service Exceptions
  • B.1.6 URL Encoding Exceptions
  • B.1.7 Variable Exceptions
• B.2 Platform Error Messages
  • B.2.1 Browser Exceptions
  • B.2.2 SSL Exceptions
  • B.2.3 TCP Exceptions
  • B.2.4 HTTP Exceptions
• B.3 HTTP Error Messages
  • B.3.1 HTTP Service Exceptions
• B.4 Oracle Forms Load Test Error Messages
  • B.4.1 Connect Errors
  • B.4.2 I/O Errors
  • B.4.3 Match Errors
  • B.4.4 Component Not Found Errors
  • B.4.5 Playback Errors
• B.5 Shared Data Error Messages
  • B.5.1 Shared Data Exceptions
• B.6 Siebel Error Messages
  • B.6.1 Siebel Exceptions
• B.7 Web Error Messages
  • B.7.1 Web Service Exceptions

C Troubleshooting

• C.1 Installation
• C.2 OpenScript Script Execution in Oracle Test Manager
• C.3 Manual Installation of Firefox Extension

D Third-Party Licenses

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