Testing tool for JDEdwards EnterpriseOne

vivek_kaushal

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Hi Guys
We are evaluationg testing tool for our company. Currently main focus is on JDEdwards EnterpriseOne. I know Autopilot is available with JDEdwards EnterpriseOne. Just wondering has anybody used AutoPilot. If yes then how good this tool is compared to other testing tools offered by other companies (e.g Mercury)?

Thanks
 
Autopilot has some major flaws. Because autopilot scripts work "under the covers" with oneworld foundation - it means that if you change the foundation (either through development OR through a service pack) - then the scripts break. It takes a LONG time to write the scripts in the first place, so this is time consuming, and ends up being a fruitless task. Almost every company I know that starts with Autopilot becomes frustrated with its limitations and move to something else.

This is because Autopilot was not developed for the end user, but it was developed inhouse for benchmarking testing. Unfortunately it cost so much money to develop, that JDE had to try and recover its costs somehow - hence they started selling it as an "automation" tool. That couldn't be farther from the truth to what the application is.

Even JDE stopped using Autopilot for their own benchmarking - either going for high-benchmarking testing or through user testing with Winrunner and/or other multi-user stress testing tools.

So this pretty much limits customers to Winrunner - which is certainly a couple of steps higher than Autopilot, but it is still difficult to learn and time consuming to write scripts.

Instead, check out Rapidfire - a proven technology (the back end was used as the basis for the B733, B7331 and B7332 benchmark testing - the results ended up helping to create the stability of Xe). The original product was developed further as an actual end-user tool that works on any different application - not just OneWorld - and now also has web benchmarking built in. Go visit http://www.rapidfireonline.com - and see Rapidfire in action in the videos there against JDE 8.10 ! The scripting language is VERY powerful, and incredibly easy to learn (less than 1/2 a day to learn the language) - and because it sits on top of the GUI, any foundation changes usually do not break the scripts at all (at the worst case scenario, that sort of change might need some very minor tweaking - but no more than a couple of hours work at most !).

The tool can also be set up to run stresstesting - I have recently completed a large benchmark for a customer that identified the maximum throughput on their hardware architecture using the tool - and this was done in a total of 1 week from start to finish - including the actual test as well as the documentation - and tested approximately 9 different application scenarios !

Hope that helps.
 
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