Oracle Application Testing Suite

Load testing with useful graphical interface tools to watch real time performance

Flexible configuration for monitoring utilities

Historical tracking for baseline performance before and after upgrades

Security rights can be complicated if multiple types of users are required at enterprise level

Depending on the size and upgrade requirements, additional custom scripting may be needed

For daily monitoring a custom database may need to be built for reporting needs

Cuts our firms test script creation time by 50%, cutting weeks from a project

Testing schedule

Reduces the amount of manual testing

Required for web app deployment

Allows you to focus on actual testing instead of spending extra time developing test scripts

Learning Oracles testing language "OpenScript" is a challenge, and for less technical people could be a problem

Sometimes the applications automatic updates cause more problems than they solve

The cost of the suite is higher than some competing applications

It was easy to configure Selenium test scripts for executing automated tests for our client front end applications.

Load and stress testing our payroll processing engine that experienced the highest traffic volumes became a breeze.

We had to contract with our vendor and had a prolonged implementation phase due to the technical complexity involved in working with Oracle Application Testing Suite.

The software has a higher price tag in comparison to some of the other competitors, hence making it more appropriate for organizations that are already consuming Oracle services.

Automating integration testing based on easily configured scripts.

We found it very efficient for load testing our front facing student portal that experienced the highest traffic volumes.

The application is ideal for places that have already contracted with Oracle, however, OATS is much more expensive than other software available on the market.

The setup and configuration for OATS requires a lot of technical expertise and in depth knowledge.

Test management

Defect management

Visibility to project stakeholders of real time testing status

Capability to work with ADF

Capability to work with Hyperion

In the test suite, I loved creating a ServerStats monitor.

It allows to use the available metrics and the generic metrics, and the load test can be run without problems and compare my absolute values.

It has the ability to clone measurement profiles this feature saves a lot of time and money in the test environment. I used it for my Oracle and SQL databases, web servers and APIs.

Its interface is not as easy to use as it could be.

The price is a little high, it is made for large companies.

It requires a lot of knowledge and training to be able to use it well. This makes the learning curve very large.

Testing as a service, load testing, and Oracle apps testing

Test process management, including test requirements management, test management, test execution and defect tracking.

Cost of the tool is higher than some others on the market

Better out of the box options for parallel regression testing sets

Tooling and lack of integrated suite to have everything in one place.

Load testing. We are able to simulate the load that production environments have within the testing environment. Without this capability, we would not be able to predict how the software will behave in production as we can never have sufficient users to test in this manner.

Functional and Regression testing is made much easier also. OAT has the ability to automate the key strokes of users so that we can perform more in-depth testing which we would never have the time or money to perform.

We are able to obtain testing scripts via this tool that we can review and enhance future deployments.

It takes a great deal of time to capture the data that we require for the tool to work. We do this via OEM.

The product requires patching like any other piece of Oracle software and so we have some maintenance overhead.

Provides out of the box testing flows for E-Business Suite.

Allows our non-technical QA team member to build tests.

Performs automated regression testing of critical functionalities within the application.

Can accommodate customizations or extensions by altering the base flows.

Cost of tool is higher than some others on the market.

Better out of the box options for parallel regression testing sets.