Chapter 6. Testing Your Universe

In this chapter, we will talk about how to test your Universe before publishing it and making it available to be used by end business users. Testing is an important step in any product development life cycle.

Testing a Universe is a challenging task as it is a special product with a special output. The tests cases should not test the combination of objects but they should be business-oriented. Imagine that we have a Universe of 10 objects and we want to create test cases to test all the possible combinations. This will be 10! (factorial 10), which equals 3,628,800.

We can think about this subject in a different way. Instead of testing the Universe the hard way, let's try to think how to test it in a smart way. This can happen if we take a moment to think about the main building blocks of the Universe. The main idea of our approach is to make sure that Universe resources are implemented in the right way. This will help us to achieve a good percentage...