Testing SOA composite applications

Oracle SOA Suite 11g enables us to simulate the interaction between an SOA composite application and external web services it uses, by providing an automated test suite framework for creating, deploying, and running repeatable tests on SOA composite applications. This way we are able to test composite applications before deploying them to a production environment. With the use of the test suite framework, we can simulate interactions with partner web services, validate process steps, and create test reports.

A test suite is used to group one or more test cases, where each test case defines a set of actions that have to be executed during the test run. By using emulations, we are able to simulate the behavior of services and service binding components. Assertions enable us to specify the expected value of data or process flow to be able to verify the result. When performing the test run, if actual values are the same as the expected values, we say the test...