Chapter 20. Testing Composite Applications

In this chapter, we will focus on the tools in JDeveloper and the SOA Suite that will assist you in testing the components of your SOA application. The basic principles of testing are the same in SOA as in other software development approaches. You start by testing the lowest level components and gradually build up to a complete system test before moving into user acceptance testing. You may also be required to undertake some form of performance testing.

We will begin our discussion by looking at the manual testing of individual components and services in the SOA Suite. We will then investigate the importance of repeatable testing before moving on to discuss automated testing and the testing framework available in the Oracle SOA Suite. Finally, we will discuss how a system may be performance tested.

Tests can be run in either of the two fashions. They can be run manually by a dedicated testing team or there can be automated tests. Manual...