Testing Component Interfaces

After setting the security for a component interface, you can test the contents and behavior using the component interface tester. You should test the component interface before using it in your external system. This proactive tool helps you discover problems with the underlying component or the component interface itself, including user-defined methods. When you are testing a component interface, real data from the database is used. Therefore, if you save the information that you change by calling the Save method, the information is changed in the database.

With the component interface tester, you can:

• Test the component interface in interactive mode.

• Retrieve history items.

• Test the standard, custom, and collection methods.