The name of this repo (OracleATS) is taken from the default folder name where the product is installed. The product is also referred to as OATS (Oracle Application Testing Suite).

OATS enables functional and performance testing of Oracle applications.

Social Media

Oracle's marketing home page is at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/app-test/etest-101273.html

* Product Twitter: #OracleATS
* Produc Facebook?

Mikael Fries (@MikaelFries in Munich, Germany) is Director Product Management at Oracle Responsible for Oracle's application testing products.

A LinkedIn group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Oracle-Application-Testing-Suite-OATS-2008546

StackOverflow on OATS: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=oats does not have much responses.

Oracle Forums on OATS content: https://community.oracle.com/search.jspa?q=oats&place=%2Fplaces%2F1284&depth=ALL&customTheme=otn

Oracle's Documents

The booklist for version 12.x are not online. The latest I've found on internet is version 9.0 for Windows 32-bit (E15487-01, September 2009) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E25291_01/nav/portal_booklist.htm and Oracle's Release Notes for OATS 9.20 (E17387-03, November 2010) is at https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E25294_01/doc.920/e17387/toc.htm#BEGIN

But documents are in the docs folder after folder OracleATS is installed (listed in the order I recommend you read them):

• OATSReleaseNotes.pdf and readme.htm web page - Oracle Application Testing Suite Release Notes

• OATSInstallationGuide.pdf - Installation Guide

• OATSGettingStartedGuide.pdf and web page OATSInstallationGuide.htm

• OLTLoadTestingUsersGuide.pdf - Oracle Load Testing for Web Applications Load Testing User’s Guide

• OLTLoadTestingServerStatsGuide.pdf - ServerStats User Guid

• OpenScriptUsersGuide.pdf - Oracle Functional Testing for Web Applications Functional Testing User’s Guide

• OpenScriptProgammersReference.pdf - Oracle Functional Testing for Web Applications Application Programming Interface Reference

• OTMTestManagerUsersGuide.pdf - Oracle Test Manager for Web Applications Test Manager User’s Guide

Where are these?

• Oracle Functional Testing for Web Applications Job Scheduler User’s Guide
• Oracle Functional Testing for Web Applications Navigation Editor User’s Guide
• Oracle Functional Testing for Web Applications Result Objects Reference

Certification Exams

Oracle has a OATS certification Exam 1z0-529

Installers by Version

Versions are aligned with Oracle apps:

12.5.0.1.0 (current) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/downloads/index-084446.html

12.4.0.2.0 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/downloads/apptesting-downloads-1983826.html

12.3.0.1.0 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/downloads/app-testing-download-2199741.html

The installer generates a password for a specific user during installation.

Trial allows up to 20 vusers to be run.

History

OATS began as commercial product e-Test from Empirix, which Oracle acquired March, 2008. See http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/empirix/index.html http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/015619_EN

Distinctions

Unlike offerings from HP, SOASTA, etc. that can test a wide variety of systems, OATS is focused on Oracle apps only and uses only Oracle technologies:

* Oracle XE (eXpress Edition) Database version 11g Release 2 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/express-edition/overview/index.html
* Standard WebLogic Server version 10.3.5.0 (with JRocketJDK), not 1035_generic.jar.

Oracle has created Accelerators for Oracle Packaged Applications:

* eBS/FORMS (Oracle e-Business Suite)
* Siebel
* JDEEOne
* Hyperion
* [Fusion/ADF](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/overview/index.html)
* Peoplesoft
* AdobeFlex

The experienced labor pool is likely to be smaller and thus more expensive than with HP or other tools.

The download http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/downloads/index-084446.html is for Windows and Linux only.

* **Oracle OpenScript for Windows** is also called 
	**Oracle Functional Testing** scripts written in Java using Eclipse IDE.
* **Oracle Test Manager (OTM)** organizes and manages the testing process.
* **Oracle Load Testing (OLT)** also includes server side monitoring and reporting
* **Load Testing Agent** installs also on 32 & 64 bit Windows 2008 R2 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (not Windows 8).

Alternatives to OATS

Oracle also has PTF (Peopltools Testing Framework) for functional testing only (no performance testing capability). It does not invoke URLs but internal objects.

The TurnKey Solutions PeopleSoft Accelerator http://www.turnkeysolutions.com/PeopleSoft-accelerator.php is based on cFactory™ which Business Process Testing (BPT) objects stored within HP ALM servers.

HP QTP/Unified Functional Testing

Change / Patch Management

QUESTION: When the system changes, all scripts need to be re-recorded?

QUESTION: Oracle Application Change Management Pack v3 - how does that integrate with