Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 14 · Approvals and BPM workflow
Testing an approval rule properly
Lesson 143 of 177 · 2 min
Rules are easy to write and hard to verify, because the editor shows you what you meant and the engine does what you wrote. THE HAPPY PATH PROVES ALMOST NOTHING. A transaction in the middle of a band matches the rule you were thinking about, and every rule set that has ever been built passes that test. A TEST MATRIX COVERS THE BOUNDARIES, and it is a small table. For every threshold, three cases: just below, exactly on, and just above. Exactly-on is the one that finds the difference between "over" and "or more", and it is the one nobody tests. Then the structural cases, which are the ones that matter more. A transaction matching TWO rules — which fires? That is Lesson 2's first-match behaviour, and it is the commonest real defect. A transaction matching NONE — auto-approved or stuck? A requester who IS the approver. A requester with…
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In this module: Module 14 · Approvals and BPM workflow
- 1How approvals are actually structured
- 2Approval rules and how they are evaluated
- 3Supervisory and position hierarchies
- 4Parallel, serial and FYI participants
- 5Delegation, escalation and timeouts
- 6Notifications and what they say
- 7Testing an approval rule properly
- 8Diagnosing a stuck transaction
- 9What breaks: the approval nobody received
- 10Lab briefing · Build and break an approval chain