1. Testing Business Applications Guide
  2. What’s New in This Release

What’s New in This Release

This chapter tracks the changes in the documentation. It includes the following topics:

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 25.3 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description
Test Execution without Jenkins

New topic. This topic describes how to use the command for test execution without Jenkins.

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 24.8 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description
Executing the Automation Batch Run

Modified topic. New subsection, Copying a Test Execution record added.

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 24.7 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description

Condition Expression for Test Steps

New topic. Describes how to use Condition field in Test Steps Applet in Test Script View, to determine at run time if the Test Step should be run or if it should be skipped.

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 23.7 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description

Dynamic Data Selection from Data Set

New topic. Describes how to use Condition field in Data Sets to determine at run time if a particular row of Data set is selected for automated Test Script iteration or if the row is to be skipped.

Associating a Data Set with a Test Set

New topic. Describes how to associate a Data Set to a Test Set, in order to use it with the Test Scripts associated to Test Set .

Copying a Test Set

New topic. Describes how to copy a Test Set replicating Test Script associations, Data Set association and iteration type .

Viewing Test Sets associated to a Data Set

New topics. Describes how to view Master Suites associated to a given Test Set, and to view Test Sets associated to a given Data Set.

Viewing Master Suites associated to a Test Set

Configuring the Test Run

Modified topic. Notify and Run Reference fields are added to table. Notify describes how to enable Notifications for Status change of a Test Execution record.

Run Reference describes how to redirect a Test Execution record to a given Jenkins node or a pool of nodes.

Configuring the Siebel Test Execution Job

Modified topic. Parameters Field and Description added to the table.

Setting Up the Jenkins Server

Modified Topics. Jenkins related steps corrected to remove obsolete steps and Multi job plug-in. Updated for --runReference parameter usage.

Setting Up and Configuring the Siebel Test Execution Plugin

Modified Topics. Jenkins related steps corrected to remove obsolete steps and Multi job plug-in. Updated for --runReference parameter usage.

Configuring the Siebel Test Execution Job

Modified Topics. Jenkins related steps corrected to remove obsolete steps and Multi job plug-in. Updated for --runReference parameter usage.

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 22.11 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description

Configuring Multiple Batch Runs

New topic. Describes how to set up parallel execution for Siebel test automation so that you will be able to execute multiple batch runs on the same client at the same time.

InvokeREST

New topic. Describes how to use the InvokeREST keyword to test and issue REST API calls from within a test script (for example, to execute the API, verify and/or use the response) in desktop applications.

ToolsConfig

Modified topic. The information in this topic has been updated.

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 22.4 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description

About Report Generation

New topic. Reports are now generated in JSON format (in addition to existing HTML format) making it easy for report results to be consumed by other tools such as CI/CD pipelines, test management tools, and so on. New reports built using the JSON format provide a consolidated snapshot of results and a detailed failure analysis. You can also manually generate a combined results report.

Generating a Combined Report

New topic. Describes how to manually generate a combined results report from multiple Report.html files.

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 21.9 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description

Siebel Test Automation Folder

Modified topic. The Extensions folder is a placeholder for CustomExtension JAR files.

Extending Keyword Automation Capabilities

New topic. You can use the CustomExtension keyword to enable support for custom requirements, such as SSO.

Plugin Configurations

Modified topic. You can use the DetailedReport check box (on the Popup that appears when you click Play) to specify whether or not to capture detailed test results and screenshots during unit mode/single test script playback.

Configuring the Siebel Test Execution Job

Modified topic. When configuring Siebel Test Execution jobs, you can use the Parameters field to specify whether or not to generate reports and capture screenshots during the test script automation batch run.

Keywords Reference

Modified topic. The note about importing test scripts to the database before using any keywords is new.

CustomExtension

New topic. CustomExtension is a new keyword, which runs a custom extension JAR file.

Reports

Modified topic. You can control whether or not to generate reports and capture screenshots and test results during test script execution.

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 21.8 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description

Implementing Siebel Open UI Keyword Automation Testing

Impact of Usage Pattern Tracking Enhancements in Siebel CRM 18.9 Update

Modified topic. Enabling UPT is not compatible with test automation.

Browser Configuration Settings

Modified topic. The geckodriver is required to run the test scripts in Firefox. Microsoft Edge is supported for running test scripts.

Creating Test Results

Modified topic. Test Plans must be associated with Test Sets before scheduling a Test Execution.

Setting Up the Jenkins Server

 Modified topic. Describes how to install and set up the Jenkins server.

Setting Up the Automation Adapter

Modified topic. Added a new subtopic about deleting UPT action sets, runtime events and system preferences.

What's New in Testing Siebel Business Applications, Siebel CRM 21.6 Update

The following information lists the changes in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Topic Description

Setting Up the Automation Adapter

Enabling Automation for Developer Web Client

Modified topics. As of Siebel CRM 21.2 Update, the applicationcontainer directory has been replaced by two directories, as follows:

  • applicationcontainer_external (for Siebel Application Interface)

  • applicationcontainer_internal (for all other Siebel Enterprise components)

For more information, see Siebel Installation Guide.