This presentation gives an overview to Performance Testing in Oracle Apps.

1. Performance Testing in ORACLE Apps
-An Overview

2. History of Oracle Apps
Oracle Applications comprise the applications software or business software
of the Oracle Corporation
It was released as Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS/ e-BS) Release 12 (R12) — a
bundling of several Oracle Applications — in February 2007
It consists of a collection of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer
Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) computer
apps either developed or acquired by Oracle
It utilizes Oracle's core Oracle Relational Database Management System
(RDBMS) technology
Oracle Corporation brands the on-line technical documentation of EBS as eTRM
— "E-Business Suite Technical Reference Manuals"

3. Tiered Architecture in Oracle Apps
Web Browser from User side
Database
Tier
Application Tier
Desktop Tier
ORACLE Database Server
App, Web & Form Servers

4. Form Client Applet
 Supports all Oracle EBS Products
 Collection of all Java Archive
(JAR) files
 Collection of all Java classes
to run the presentation
Desktop Java Client
 Form Client must run with a JVM (Java
Virtual Machine) on Desktop
 All JARs are cached locally on
Client JAR files
 Eliminate network traffic
Tiered Architecture : Desktop Tier

5. •Contains the Oracle database server that stores and
manages all the data maintained by Oracle EBS i.e. the
tables, indexes, and other database objects as well as
the database executable. It also stores the Oracle EBS
online help information.
•The database server communicates with the services and
servers on the application tier, which mediate the
communications between the database and the clients.
Tiered Architecture : Database Tier

6. Web Services Form Services
Concurrent Processing Server
 Listener Servelet
 Load Balancing during peak hour
 Re-establish dropped connection
 Firewall and Proxy configuration
 Robust and secure deployment over internet
Tiered Architecture : Application Tier
 Process the request received from client
 Web Listener (Apache Oracle HTTP)
 Java Servelet Engine (OC4J) acts as container
 Oracle Process Manager (OPMN)
Use OS facilities to allow non-interactive
(Background) scheduling of data and long-running intensive jobs
to be executed efficiently along with frontend through a set of programs and
ensure that backend and frontend don’t interfere with intensive concurrent operations

7. EBS Tech
Layer
Oracle App DBA (AD)
Install, Upgrade,
Maintain and Patch EBS
EBS Tech Layer : Features
App Object Library(FND)
Reusable code, program
and database object
App Utility (AU)
Maintain EBS, Collect
other files, Generate
forms and reports
Common Module (AK)
Define characteristics
of EBS components
Work Flow (WF)
Modelling, Automation
and Improvement of
Business Workflow
Oracle Alert (ALR)
Notify user incase of
any Exception, Error
Oracle Framework (FWK)
Framework to support app
development within EBS
XML Publisher (XDO)
Template to produce o/p
report in desired
format.

8. Load Balancing in Oracle Apps
DNS
Web Services(HTTP)
Form Services
OC4J
Concurrent Process
Database Servers
Layer 4 Load Balancing
Layer 7 Load Balancing

9. Response
Time
Response Time is the total amount of time it takes to respond to
a request for service (speed of task completion)
System
Throughput
System Throughput is a measure of work completed successfully in
a given amount of time.
MTBF/MTTR
Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the predicted elapsed time
between inherent failures of a system during operation.
Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) average time required to repair it.
Uptime
Uptime is the measure of system reliability/stability, up to
which it can be left unattended without crashing.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

10. E2E
Response
Time
Network
Response
Time
DB
Response
Time
Client
Response
Time
Form Server
Response
Time
KPI : Factors affecting Response Time
In Oracle Apps environment, the below are the major factors which
more-or-less contribute to End-to-End Response Time.

11. Key Performance Indicator : DB and App Tier

12. Endurance
If application can sustain minimum virtual user load (10-15 concurrent users) within
standard Response time and CPU memory consumption
If application can sustain increased backend data volume or at critical
DB levels
If application can sustain maximum user load or high load
during peak hours of business
If application can sustain continuous
load for 8-12 hours
Stress
Volume
Baseline
Load
Performance Testing in Oracle Apps
If application can sustain real world user load
within gradual ramp up/ramp down criteria

13. Performance Testing Life Cycle in Oracle Apps

14. Detailed system study of Oracle Apps module and interface apps
Performance Testing Life Cycle : Requirement Analysis
Understand environment and requirement gathering
Best practices to be utilized while design/testing
Preparation of Oracle Apps Performance Questionnaire
Identifies the test scenarios for performance testing
Derive performance Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Study usage details of application
Study other interfaces used by customer which could affect testing

15. Test planning document to be signed by all stakeholders
Performance Testing Life Cycle : Test Planning
Prepare performance test strategy, risk/mitigation plan
Estimate efforts and plan for resources
Define test objective, scope, activity and responsibility
Identifies the test scenarios for performance testing

16. Finalize, setup and validate test environment
Performance Testing Life Cycle : Test Implementation
Develop scripts and scenarios according to script standard
Create and finalize test data for each identified scenario
Conduct smoke test to verify scripts
Establish run time settings standard

17. Scripts are loaded into tool for execution
Performance Testing Life Cycle : Test Execution
Scripts are executed with identified/verified data
Baseline scripts are created for reference
Load, Stress, Endurance, Volume testing are done
If required, multiple cycles of execution are carried out
Server components are monitored to find bottlenecks(if any)
Execution logs are prepared and maintained

18. Oracle Application Testing Suite (OATS) is an integrated web app testing
tool that ensure the scalability and reliability of critical business
applications
Performance Testing Tool in Oracle : OATS
Oracle Functional Testing – Automated functional and regression testing
Oracle Load Testing – Scalability and load testing of web apps
Oracle Test Manager – Test process management and defect tracking
Disadvantage:
Supports only Web-based applications
Advantage:
Inbuilt Job Scheduler to schedule functional and regression testing
“Data Bank” feature that allow to build data driven testing for regression

19. Supports less protocols such as Hyper
Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and few web
based protocols
Oracle Apps Testing Suits (OATS) HP Load Runner
Oracle Apps Testing Suits (OATS) vs HP LoadRunner
Supports many types of protocols which
covers almost all kinds of applications
Provide in-built support and correlation
mainly to other Oracle technologies
Provide in-built support and manual
correlation for almost every kind of
technology
Oracle scripting environment supports
coding only using ‘Java’
Supports ‘Java’ and ‘C’ languages for
script development
It is available on Testing-as-a-Service
(TaaS) model
It is available on Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) model
Faces difficulties while identifying
objects in Internet Explorer
Doesn’t require object identification