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Last activity: 14 Feb 2019 12:10 EST
Test Case guardrail warnings
Hi, In 7.3.1 we are having guardrail warnings for setup data transforms for Automated Unit Test Cases.
Our test cases require data transforms to set up the test data, but Pega give a guardrail for needing a test case on all data transforms which leads into an endless circle. This ends up lowering the compliance score.
Does anybody have any fix/workaround for this?
Thanks,
Dan
***Edited by Moderator Marissa to update categories***
Pegasystems Inc.
US
we've been keeping the supporting rules for test cases in the same ruleset as the test case. Then we have a separate Dev app that contains the test case ruleset that is built on top of our main app.
When we run the guardrail score, we run it from the main app
Tata Consultancy Services
IN
Hi,
I understand that all test case related items are kept in a single rule set and that is not part of the guardrail generation. However let us say that we have imported a XSD / WSDL and it has created a lot of DT at my main application. They all have this warning that Unit test case needs to be generated. Is there any way to remove the warning , else we will have to create UTC for each of these generated DT ( which is a lot of effort without a value add) or the guardrail will go for a toss.
Thanks and regards,
Samiran.
Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia
SA
We have the similar issue, is this issue resolved? any work around available to skip the guardrail warning for Unit Test Cases?
Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia
SA
We have the similar issue, is this issue resolved? any work around available to skip the guardrail warning for Unit Test Cases?
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
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Anamata
NL
I disagree with you on that statement. It's not mandatory. However, it is recommended to do so. A guardrail warning will inform you whenever you should add a test case to your rule.
MUFG Pension & Market Services
IN
Thanks Michel, I mean the same. If we do not add any test case to the rule then you need to justify the guardrail warning.
Anamata
NL
Hey Fayaz, it's indeed a good practice to justify guardrail warnings. It means that you've given the warning any thought. Although I would understand that developers won't justify every (informational) guardrail warning that pops up.
I hope that in the future Pega will add a feature to disable the test case guardrail warning for rules stored in a ruleset with the 'Use this ruleset to store test cases' checkbox enabled.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Hello all,
I would like clarify a few things here for others who come to this page
- A adding unit test is a strong recommendation since it helps improve the overall testing practices for the application and reduces the burden on regression testing.
- To that end we added an informational warning, which does not impact the guardrail score.
- In Pega Platform 8.1, there was an enhancement that was introduced to ignore the test ruleset when computing the guardrail score as a way to reduce the noise with these non-production rules
- As was suggested by @liy01, a good practice is to separate the test cases and its associated test rulesets into a separate test app layer, this way any guardrail warnings associated with test assets (or really anything that is not part of the production app) will not impact the main application score. I would recommend following the team application concept called out in the article - Development workflow in a DevOps pipeline