Biztalk Applications Testing - Learnings

I hardly remember Biztalk BAM tables, that I checked during my test role. All sample exercises you can find in posts tagged biztalk exercise

Testing involved

• Schema Validations (pass with incorrect / missing values)
• One of the posts exercises is for invoking web services from biztalk, In this scenario retries, failures need to be checked when webservices is accessible / not accessible.
• Check for cases how messages are handled in cases on suspended messages (password failure, port connectivity failures)
• Further depending upon the orchestration logic we have to look at possible failure cases and retry logic for the same
• BRE rules Testing
• BAM queries are another good way to analyze time taken for execution, Queries are provided below SQL Server Query for suspended messages by application, SQL Server Query for BizTalk traffic by application

Further reads on this topic

• Configuring Microsoft BizTalk Server for Performance
• Load Testing BizTalk Server Solutions with Visual Studio 2010
• Business Rule Engine BizUnit Test Steps
• BizTalk Control Center (BCC) is a remote BizTalk monitoring and management application.
• Create a Load Test to Perform Multiple Unit Tests Simultaneously
• BizUnit 4.0 Released
• BizTalk 360 - Integrated BAM Portal
• Unit Testing BizTalk Business Rule Engine
• Useful T-SQL queries on BizTalk Filter, Send Port, Receive Location, etc.
• BizTalk SQL Receive Location - Deadlocks, Dirty Reads and Isolation Levels
• C# solution to decompress BizTalk messages and their context
• Testing inside BizTalk by using ETW Tracing
• CodePlex - BizUnit - Framework for Automated Testing of Distributed Systems
• BizTalk Environment Maintenance from a DBA perspective
• BizTalk production support/monitoring tool
• Create Custom C# load generator for simulating concurent hits

Happy Reading!!