Oracle Integration Cloud: Building Integrations That Survive Production · Module 15 · Testing an integration properly
End-to-end with the business
Lesson 150 of 175 · 2 min
The test where A PERSON DOES SOMETHING REAL and confirms the result IN THEIR OWN SYSTEM. What only this catches. Every test so far has been yours: you supplied the input, you checked the target, and you were the one who decided what correct means. This one is different in exactly that respect — somebody from the business performs their real task in the source system, and then looks in the destination system for the result they expected. WHAT ONLY THIS CATCHES IS THE GAP BETWEEN WHAT YOU BUILT AND WHAT THEY MEANT. The integration works perfectly against the specification and the specification was a reading of a requirement written in a workshop three months ago. Nothing in a technical test can find a mapping that is correct and wrong — the right field populated with the wrong meaning, a status that maps to something the business would never call…
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