A recent acquisition by Oracle involved a company called Empirix, that sold its e-Test Suite product to Oracle. Oracle is now integrating this product with Enterprise Manager, under the new Oracle Application Testing Suite label. The e-Test Suite is used for functional – black box – testing of Web Applications (those applications with a client that communicates via HTTP with a backend, including Applets and to some extent WebServices). The scripts recorded for functional testing – from the actions performed by the user –

can be – parametrized if necessary – used for load or stress testing. The test process as a whole can be managed with the Oracle Test Manager for Web Applications, which sits on top of a repository that will hold (Functional) Requirements, associated Test Plans composed of one ore more individual test cases (that correspond with the tests defined in the Load Test tool) and records issues found with executing the test plan and individual test cases. The tool generates reports and dashboards with charts.

Note: the picture shows theUI for Oracle Functional Testing for Web Applications. On the left hand side you see a tree with test cases – and on the right hand the More >