Oracle Application Testing Suite Reviews

We use OATS for Oracle Forms, for functional testing. It is integrated with several other Oracle products. Sometimes we use it on a daily basis, although it depends on the projects that are being worked on at the time. We also use it for training and development purposes.

The most valuable features are functional testing and the central repository that contains various scripts.

Apart from the dashboard, the interface is user-friendly.

The dashboards need to be simplified and made more user-friendly. This is the main improvement that I would like to see.

I have been using the Oracle Application Testing Suite for ten years.

This is a really stable solution.

It is easy to scale and we have had no issues with that. We have about 25 users.

We have been in contact with technical support a couple of times. They are very responsive and have been able to resolve our issues immediately.

We did not use another solution for functional testing, prior to this one.

The initial setup is very easy. Any person with minimal knowledge and install and deploy it.

The deployment will take approximately two hours.

The return on investment is very good.

There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

Overall, Oracle Application Testing Suite is very easy to use and you can create a good framework for developing and testing. If the dashboard were improved then it would be perfect.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use the cloud deployment model for this solution. 

We like that we don't need a separate management tool. This is a good feature. It also has an inbuilt performance tool which is on Flash. It has very good record and playback features as well. The inspection tool is also very good. Overall, since it comes with all the three packages, it's very good.

It has a very good inbuilt reporting system.

There is no support for this particular tool and you don't have a very big knowledge base on Google. It should order the tests so that you can automatically write a path and test it on it. The object identification feature can be enabled and leveraged to other levels and there's some kind of knowledge base. These are the two main areas that need improvement.

The pathfinding at times is slow when we are using it. The tool's performance can be improved. 

The third thing, is the help and the support or the knowledge base needs improvement. Otherwise, it's overall a very good tool.

It should have proper integration with CI/CD tools or any plugins. There's good documentation with Jenkins or JIRA.

It should be a little more flexible like Selenium for the user to try with different locators or the different writing of XPath. The slowness can be identified and when we try to automate any internet, the application which can only be opened in Internet Explorer has some challenges.

It needs better automation. I think it is there but some enhancements should be done. Overall, it is a very good tool that is better than some other automation tools on the market. It supports various entrepreneur platform applications and applications developed with different coding background and it's all very good.

It's a stable one except for one or two incidents, it's stable. 

It has good scalability. It can integrate it with CI/CD tools and all those things. There is no inbuilt configuration or setups available to link it with other tools or scale it with other CI/CD tools. Those tools are lacking configuration abilities. It's a lack of knowledge from our side of the this because of the unavailability of the knowledge base. We haven't tried with different stops.

We have around seven or eight users using this solution. We require two staff members for the deployment and maintenance. 

I would rate their technical support 2.5 out of ten. 

I have only used Oracle. I didn't use a previous solution. 

It's really a very good tool. My advice to somebody considering this solution is to speak to the vendor, make sure to make your requirements clear and have clear answers from the vendor's side. Ask what support is available and what the scalability terms are and what features are available to integrate with CI/CD tools.

The tool is very good. There's no doubt about it so. In terms of the properties or object identification media, there could be some more or better documentation, a better knowledge base or better enhancements should be available.

I would rate it a seven out of ten. 

Helps us to reduce the workload to check the system. It saves us a lot of time to do the testing.

The most valuable feature is that you can play back to do the function test.

We want to have some script that can be used in different instances. The URN can be added and then retraced, so that we can use the script. Right now we have to record the script for each instance so the workload is a bit higher. 

Room for improvement would be for the reporting features. If they could improve the dashboards, that would be helpful.

The software is mature and easy to use but there is room for improvement.

1. Java as native supported language.
2. User friendly UI / Tree view to work with adding steps.
3. The initial kick of time of a functional test automation script is lesser than other popular tools like QTP. But not as quick as selenium :). But selenium supports of automation of only web applications.
4. Stable enough for Oracle EBS Applications and other products of Oracle, there are some components which are not recognized by other test automation products but are recognized by OATS ( Oracle Application Testing Suite )

To provide test automation support for other products like SAP, Windows and Java Applications when it comes to Functional Test Automation testing. Which otherwise they have a pretty good coverage to test all Cloud or Web Based applications.

I have used for about 8 years now, had worked with this tool from the time of inception at oracle, as I had worked at ORACLE for 7.5 years and used OATS for most of the time. It was our default solution for test automation of Oracle EBS Applications.

OATS 12.5.0.2 has a pretty smooth installation process.

In budding stages, the product had serious stability issues, but ORACLE has put its best people behind and made the product quite stable. Now I feel its the best tool to automate any of the Oracle Products, which include Oracle EBS Applications, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Adobe Flex, ADF applications, etc..

The technical support on Linkedin Groups and Direct support are good, would rate it as 4 out of 5

We used Winrunner earlier and later HP had stopped its support so we had to switch to another Test automation product and when an internal tool could support, there was no point in paying to external companies, while I was working with ORACLE

Simple and easy

There was huge ROI, as we stopped all Licenses that were paid to HP and used something internally at ORACLE

ORACLE is giving at a very competitive rates to all its customers, and its a simple licensing process.

Yes, we tried with QTP, but it was doing no good than internal tool for test automation of Oracle EBS Applications.

It's a really amazing solution, which I have ever used, three tools which I used most were Winrunner, QTP and OATS. I feel OATS is best, even now I am out of ORACLE I believe OATS has much more value, compared to others. and I liked it so much that I started writing my experiences over my personal blog which is http://testingtools.co

Automation with recorded scripting: This is a nice feature, which allows customized testing scenarios to be created and edited depending on the testing needs at the time.

It has allowed more thorough testing with performance-based testing, in addition to regression testing and regular testing with each software release.

It does not provide easy diagnostics to ascertain end to end transaction monitoring. It shows statistics on individual class calls and it is challenging to aggregate the data into a single end-to-end transaction based on a single individual user experience.

We have used this solution for over two years.

No issues with deployment.

No stability issues encountered.

A system integrator installed the tool and has provided the support and expertise to initially run the testing and train our staff.

The tool is expensive to purchase and use based on licensing requirements for number of users.

This is the best tool I have used till today as it allows us to handle automation in variety of ways. It has lots of features which are bundled together in a single package (e.g. OTM, OFT). We can use the same automated test script for functional testing. Lots of features are there in it. Best tool for automation on Siebel Object.

1. Need to improve in Object Identification process. 
2. Performance is slow as compared to other tools like QTP. 
3. Internet Explorer is facing difficulties in identifying siebel object so browser functionality needs to be improved etc.

In the past one year, I have worked on the upgraded version of OATS 11.2 and its has some good features with includes automation API for Peoplesoft automation, good log management and improved version of interface. Although it has few issues with Oracle Siebel Object Identification which is sorted by Oracle by providing patch. I will update you further in the coming months.

It's user friendly and in-built API support makes it very easy to automate or develop an automation framework.

Screenshot from the server machine when Script is running on server from OTM and the server logs off. That shouldn't happen.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We have stability issues with the server logging off when a script runs from OTM.

It has scaled for our needs.

OpenScript and several objects that can be used in scripting. Option to Iterate over scripts is good. It allows you to run the same script for different instances. The report that is generated is quite detailed and useful, only becomes too big (MB's) when running several scripts.

This product can facilitate the lowering of test execution times for operational people. In other words, the bulk of the (repeating) test steps can be taken away by automating the EBS regression set in OpenScript, every release. After the automated regression set has run, all standard EBS functionalities have been tested and Employees only have to validate custom pieces of the system, without having to prepare. This takes away a significant amount of man hours.

Improvement in performance and stabilizing record/playback in the EBS forms option.

I've used it for three years.

I'm not a developer, but I've heard from the technical people that there limitations programming wise, which brought some limitations.

There's no issues with the stability.

We're an organization with 3,000 employees, and active roll in testing for about 100.

I haven't needed to use technical support.

This product is one of the few products that can run with Oracle Forms (Java servlet applet), and a discount was giving for using this product in combination with licenses for the Oracle e-Business Suite.

I didn't do the install myself, but I've heard that the installation guide wasn't very clear, and some tial and error had to be done to get it working.

We did it in-house.

$80,000 profit after three years, and then $50.000 per year.

Loads of possibilities. I use mostly use the WebForm and EBS forms options. WebForms works fine, but Scripting in the EBS forms option isn't very consistent and stable. During recording and playback errors occur. Elements of forms aren't recognized which makes scripting and playback a time consuming activity.

I advise you to use an isolated server with as much privileges/rights as possible, and limited access to the outside. Restrict connections to needed test environments only. Double the hardware that is stated on the specs for minimum hardware requirements. When scripting, try not to script all, but focus on the part where the expectation is that is will not/minimally change in the coming period. Also, when scripting, try to work in modular way and try to make them re-usable.