The Task Manager view lets you automate many of the tasks you have to perform when testing an interface.
Several tasks must commonly be executed at certain stages when performing a test. For instance, you must launch InterChange Server Express, bind the Integrated Test Environment agent to it, and connect the Integrated Test Environment perspective to it at an early stage when preparing to perform a test. Later on in the test you must launch Connector Agent views for the connectors and access clients in the interface, and connect them to the InterChange Server instance. To make it easier to execute all of the tasks that tend to relate to a particular stage during the running of a test, Task Manager displays related tasks in groups. The tasks for launching Connector Agent views and connecting them to the InterChange Server Express instance, for example, are collected in a task group named "Start Connector Agents". Task Manager allows you to execute either a single task, or a task group as a whole.
Figure 63 shows the Task Manager view with several tasks and task groups selected.
Table 19 describes the tasks and task
groups in the Task Manager view.
Table 19. Tasks and task groups in the Task Manager view
Task name | Task description |
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Start Server | This is the group for all tasks related to starting InterChange Server Express. |
Launch Server | This task starts the InterChange Server Express instance. This task belongs to the Start Server task group. |
Bind to test server | This task binds the Integrated Test Environment agent to the InterChange Server Express instance so that it can manage the testing process and collect information. This task belongs to the Start Server task group. |
Connect to Server | This task connects the
Integrated Test Environment perspective to the InterChange Server Express instance
so that you can manage and deploy components and view data. This task belongs
to the Start Server task group.
|
Reset Server | This is the group for the Clear Repository task. |
Clear Repository | This task deletes the repository of the InterChange Server Express instance. You would want to perform this task if you plan to deploy components through the Integrated Test Environment interface and some of the components already exist in the repository. This task belongs to the Reset Server task group. |
Deployment | This is the group for
all tasks related to deploying components to the InterChange Server Express repository
through the Task Manager view.
All of the dependent components for an interface must be deployed to test the interface. To deploy components using Integrated Test Environment, you must make
sure the InterChange Server Express instance starts in design mode.
|
Deploy Default Dependents | This task deploys all
the components that are determined by the system to be required for the
interface to function, and that are listed beneath the
Default Dependents
node in the Dependency view.
This task belongs to the Deployment task group. |
Deploy User Dependents | This task deploys all
the components that you add to the User Dependents node in the Dependency
view.
This task belongs to the Deployment task group. |
Start Connector Agents | This is the group for all tasks relating to emulating connector agents or access clients. |
Start connector views | This task starts Connector
Agent view windows for all of the connectors or access clients involved
in the interface.
This task belongs to the Start Connector Agents task group. |
Make server connection | This task causes the
connectors and access clients associated with the Connector Agent views
that are open to the InterChange Server Express instance.
Connector agents and access clients must be connected to InterChange Server to exchange business objects. By default a connector starts using its definition in the repository. You can use the Connector Agent view to cause the agent to connect with a configuration file as described in Emulating a connector using a configuration file. This task belongs to the Start Connector Agents task group.
|
Start BO Trace | This is the group for
all tasks relating to business object tracing.
Business object tracing records business object data as business objects are processed by components in the system. For more information, see Using the BO Inspector view. |
Clear BO Trace Folder | This task clears the
folder in which business object trace data is stored. You might want to
clear the business object trace folder for the following reasons:
|
Start BO Trace | This task starts business
object tracing. You must start business object tracing for Integrated Test
Environment to store business object data during the tests you perform.
This task belongs to the Start BO Trace task group. |
Stop BO Trace | This task stops business
object tracing.
Business object tracing can be a very resource-intensive task, so depending on your objectives for the testing you might want to stop business object tracing if it is more disruptive than helpful. |
Disconnect Server | This task disconnects Integrated Test Environment from the InterChange Server Express instance. It does not shut down the InterChange Server Express instance. |
Shutdown Server | This task shuts down the InterChange Server Express instance. |
Table 20. Ways of selecting tasks and task groups in the Task Manager view
To accomplish this... | Do this... |
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Check a single task within a group | Click the checkbox next to the task. |
Check a group of tasks | Click the checkbox next to the task group. |
Check all tasks in the view | Click the down arrow in the right-hand corner of the title bar of the Task Manager view and choose Check All from the menu. |
Uncheck all tasks in the view | Click the down arrow in the right-hand corner of the title bar of the Task Manager view and choose Uncheck All from the menu. |
Check your preferred tasks | Click the down arrow
in the right-hand corner of the title bar of the Task Manager view and
choose Preference Selection from the menu.
For more information, see Configuring your preferred task selections. |
Check the default tasks | Click the down arrow
in the right-hand corner of the title bar of the Task Manager view and
choose Default Selection from the menu.
The default task and task group selections are:
|
A convenient approach, for instance, is to execute all of the tasks within the Start Server, Start Connector Agents, and Start BO Trace task groups.
Do the following to execute all of the tasks within a selection of task groups:
You might use this approach frequently with the Start Connector Agents task group. You will frequently execute groups of tasks to initially prepare a test, as described in Executing selected groups of tasks. You might close the Connector Agent views you have open during the course of a series of tests, however, and then need to launch them and connect them again. You do not have to execute all of the tasks that have already been performed, however--you can execute only the Start Connector Agents task group.
You might use this approach to shut down the server. You might want to start the server again immediately afterwards, and not want to re-enable all the required checkboxes. You can just right-click the Shutdown Server task and execute it alone.
Do one of the following to stop the currently executing tasks:
To kill the currently executing tasks, click the down arrow in the right-hand corner of the title bar of the Task Manager view and choose Kill Tasks from the menu.
Do one of the following to pause the currently executing tasks:
Do the following to configure your preferred task selections:
Figure 64. Integrated Test Environment task preferences
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