HP Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension 10.00 Readme

Software version: 10.00

Publication date: August 2009

This file provides information about HP Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension 10.00:

Documentation
System Requirements and Installation Instructions
Notes and Limitations
HP Software Support
Legal Notices

For detailed information about Business Process Testing for each supported environment, refer to the documentation set.

Documentation

The first page of this document contains the following identifying information:

Version number, which indicates the software version.
Publish date, which changes each time the document is updated.

In Quality Center, choose Help > Add-ins Page > More HP Quality Center Add-ins. Choose Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension under Quality Center Extensions and download the document you need.

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System Requirements and Installation Instructions

For system requirements and installation instructions, refer to the HP Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension Installation Guide.

Licenses

To work with HP Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension, the following license is required:

Business Process Testing license (per user)

Note: The Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension option must be enabled for each relevant project using Quality Center Site Administration.

For information on receiving, installing, and enabling an Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension license, you can visit the HP Software Support Web site at: www.hp.com/go/hpsoftwaresupport.

Uninstalling Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension

After uninstalling the last supported enterprise environment on the Quality Center server, Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension functionality is no longer available in the projects on that server. Quality Center projects with Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension enabled become unstable.

Notes and Limitations

This section includes notes and limitations for the Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension 10.00 release and is divided into the following topics:

General
Environment-Specific Applications

General

It may take 30-45 minutes to enable Business Process Testing Enterprise Extension when using an Oracle database.
If a field becomes mandatory, it is not detected by running the component in Change Detection mode and this change is not indicated in the Change Detection Report.
When selecting to remove a step from a Business Component in the Resolve section of the Change Detection Report, flow level parameters that are used by this step are not deleted.
When the suggested resolution in the Change Detection Report is to add a step for a control, the Change Detection Report allows the user to insert any value for the new step. No validation is done on the value. The user is responsible to ensure that a valid value is used.
When a checkpoint fails during a Change Detection mode run, the report does not provide an indication about whether the step failed because the checkpoint failed or because it was unable to perform the step (for example if an object was not found).

Workaround: To view details about why the step failed, open the regular QuickTest report rather than the Change Detection Report.

In rare cases, the Change Detection Report indicates that type of control corresponding to the step changed even when it is not changed. In these cases, the Resolve area offers an option to change the object's type to the same type.

Workaround: Select the option to Ignore and mark as resolved.

When re-learning a flow with the same steps as the first time the flow was learned, the new values are not saved and the test cannot be run.

Environment-Specific Applications

If you use the F4 key in SAP tables while learning a flow, unnecessary input flow parameters are created.
For performance reasons, when you learn a flow, the text label objects in your SAP application are not learned unless an operation is performed on them. Therefore, the Change Detection mechanism also does not capture changes on these types of objects except for changes to the specific labels that were captured (if any) during the learn process.

HP Software Support

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Legal Notices

 

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