Integration and system testing
Having configured and tested the units with unit testing, integrate them into the network and test them.
- As translations are built, verify the operations before adding advanced operations (for example, procedure calls) to the specification. This approach helps isolate any problems that might arise during construction.
- Verify each translation specification before configuring it into the network. Translation specifications describe how messages from source locations are converted so they can be interpreted by single or multiple destinations. An erroneous translation can result in messages delivered with invalid information.
- Verify translation specifications before adding them to the production engine, and only after verifying the message record formats used by the translation.
- Use a test site to check out translations before incorporating them into a production system.
- When integration testing is completed, perform the final system test by running the engine and moving messages through it.