#Testing

We've recently made available a new version of InterSystems IRIS in the Vector Search Early Access Program, featuring a new Approximate Nearest Neighbor index based upon the Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) indexing algorithm. This addition allows for highly efficient, approximate nearest-neighbor searches over large vector datasets, dramatically improving query performance and scalability.

There are many applications for working with HL7 V2 messages, but the tools for working with XML in IRIS Management Portal and Cache Studio are limited. While plenty of external utilities and IDEs work with XML messages and even C-CDA documents, there is a compelling case for being able to test directly against the IRIS C-CDA framework. 

Testing within the IRIS environment provides the necessary context: 

• XML parser configuration
• XML namespace context
• Facility and OID setup
• IHE header handling
• The HS.IHE.Util, HS.Util.XSLTTransformer, and %XML.XSLT.

Hi everyone,

In this article, I’m excited to introduce CodeInspector, a tool designed to simplify code validation by applying custom rules tailored to your development requirements. Whether you're managing a large codebase or working in an agile environment, CodeInspector helps ensure code quality by offering flexibility and adaptability to specific project needs.

Motivation

The idea behind CodeInspector was to build a tool that is both easy to implement and adaptable to different business contexts.

Hello,

First of all thanks for your help, and thank you for your time.

We have the following task:

To generate by hand the Ens.Request with the properties and inner Data Schemes which represent this XML, in HealthShare, by hand; the XML is this one:

<DSPortal360 xmlns="http://tempuri.org/DSPortal360.

Trying to test a router that takes an XML input and performs a transform on it.
First attempt I tried to test the transform using the XML Document Viewer via the Ensemble -> Interoperate -> XML Document Viewer menu. The transform itself is working however I can not get the output to save to a file. I've made sure permissions are set correctly on the file. It simply doesn't output anything and I'm at a loss as to why.
As another method I also tried testing via Ensemble -> Test -> Business Hosts. Putting the file path/name as the source does not send any data.

We have a custom business service that is triggered by a scheduled task. The service queries a table, iterates over the result set and sends a message on to a business process for each result. Happy path functionality is all fine.

However, when there is an error detected in the business service code, neither throwing an exception nor returning an error %Status behaves as we'd expect.

Our error handling scheme, which is working for the other business processes and operations, is to throw an exception on error.

I'm trying to learn M programing for an Epic db class prerequisite. They said to download the IRIS Studio software to do the testing. I'm having a very difficult time finding information the language. I'm trying to run some examples that Epic has provided (like in below) but the compiler complains that it isn't valid. Of course, it doesn't tell you why it isn't valid.

r !,"Enter the hour: ",hr  
 r !,"Enter the minute: ",min 
 r !,"Enter the second: ",sec 
 s Mtime=$$ConvertToMTime(hr,min,sec)
 w !

Hi Developers,

Join us at the upcoming Developer Roundtable on March 26th at 11 am ET | 4 pm CET. 📍
We will have 2 topics covered by the invited experts and open discussion as always! 

Talks:

➡ Demo on Documenting and Testing REST Call's by generating documentation and making scenario's for integration tests - presented by @Danny Wijnschenk , Application Developer, Winfo.
Danny is an independent developer based in Belgium, specialized in InterSystems Caché and IRIS. He has customers in both the healthcare and non-healthcare sectors.

➡ Cypress for web application testing - presented by @Pravin Barton , Senior Applications Developer, InterSystems

▶ Update: watch the recording of the roundtable below.

We recently uploaded to OpenExchange a small application that I developed a while ago (and that @Jose-Tomas Salvador improved and refined) that I often use when I need to generate large volumes of HL7 messaging.

The application is developed in NodeJS and works by generating patient and doctor data from seed files that you can modify to your liking to personalize the generated patients. The application will use the generated patients to prepare different types of HL7 messages. At the moment the application can generate the following types of messages.

I need to write test cases for Object script but need help for understanding the mock library in IRIS? Or need Suggestion for how to use mocking

Hi Developers!

I want to share with you the approach you can use working with Unit Testing which I personally find very convenient and robust.

Will not talk much here about Unit Testing, we have documentation, enough good articles on the topic not only on the Internet but here on Developers Community too,  e.g. this one.

How can you manage the Unit Testing of your ZPM module?

This is pretty handy with ZPM. It has a special command "test" which runs all the tests you mentioned in the module. You can execute it as shown below:

zpm:USER>module-name test

And this command runs all the tests you mentioned in module.xml.

Let's see how it works.

Hi Developers,

Our first Online Developer Roundtable of 2024 will take place on March 5th at 9 am ET | 3 pm CET. 

Tech talks:

1. ObjectScript Unit Testing Tools, Techniques and Best Practices - by @Timothy Leavitt , Development Manager, Application Services, InterSystems
2. Monitoring and Alerting Capabilities of InterSystems IRIS - by  @Mark Bolinsky, Principal Technology Architect, InterSystems Mark's presentation is rescheduled for the roundtable in April.

▶ Update: watch the recording of the roundtable below:

Anyone performed  UI Automation (visual traces) on IRIS Dataplatform?

Hi,

How can I effectively unit test a Business Process Language(BPL) that incorporates three code activities calling methods from distinct ObjectScript classes?.

Appreciate any insights or examples.

Thanks,

Nimisha

It seems like yesterday when we did a small project in Java to test the performance of IRIS, PostgreSQL and MySQL (you can review the article we wrote back in June at the end of this article). If you remember, IRIS was superior to PostgreSQL and clearly superior to MySQL in insertions, with no big difference in queries.

Well, shortly after @Dmitry Maslennikov told me "Why don't you test it from a Python project?" Well, here is the Python version of the tests we previously performed using the JDBC connections.

Does anyone have an effective tool for anonymizing/deidentifying CCDAs for testing purposes?

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Windows that allows you to run a Linux environment on your Windows machine, without the need for a separate virtual machine or dual booting. 

WSL is designed to provide a seamless and productive experience for developers who want to use both Windows and Linux at the same time**.

WSL 2 is the default distro type when installing a Linux distribution. WSL 2 uses virtualization technology to run a Linux kernel inside of a lightweight utility virtual machine (VM). Linux distributions run as isolated containers inside of the WSL 2 managed VM.

We are successfully using System Default Settings to manage differences in settings across environments where the production and underlying code are otherwise identical. However, the TestingEnabled and LogGeneralTraceEvents settings don't appear to be settable via this mechanism. While we appear to be able to set them on the SDS page, they do not show up as selectable when resetting the settings on the Production Settings tab in the management portal - see screenshots below.

Hello, community!

After creating the app IrisApiTester, I saw that it could have more potential, and with some adjustments, it could become a powerful collaborative tool.

I asked myself a few questions::

• Could the API collections be shared with the entire team?
• Could I use it to perform unit tests?
• Is it beneficial for integration tests??
• What will happen if I add a CI/CD continuous integration layer??

After considering possible answers, I decided to give it a try.

Attention all developers!

Get ready to revolutionize your testing process with iris-tripleSlash, the ultimate unit test solution.

Say goodbye to boring and repetitive unit testing and hello to effortless and efficient testing.

With iris-tripleSlash, you can easily generate unit test cases using the power of automatic documentation.

Hi Community!,

I've published a new versión of IrisApiTester, I included some new features:

• External Repo: Added possibility to use a collection in a repository (Github or Bitbucket) instead of drag manually the collection's file into the web page.
• Pull and Run: Created new endpoint to auto pull changes in the repo and run the test automatically.

Hello, 
as i'm trying to develop a operation and its methods (SQL adapter), I'm running into issues when i run my test class. 
I have the class i want to test in the very same folder as my test class. 
I followed the tutorial in the documentation. 
When i run the test class, i get the following message error : 
LogStateStatus:0::ERREUR #5002: Erreur Cache: <METHOD DOES NOT EXIST>zTestAdd+1^unitTests.testMyClass.1 *myMethod,Package.BO.MyClass  
Here is my test class (heavily inspired bythe documentation :-) :
 

Class unitTests.testSqlInscription Extends %UnitTest.

Hey everyone, 

Here we are again. New year, new contest, new project, old reasons.

Triple Slash is in the house!

Hello Community!!

I just upload my lastest application "IRIS Api Tester" to the Open Exchange. 

It's a docker project with InterSystems IRIS + Newman that will allow you to test your Postman Collections in a quick and easy way..

It's ready to work out of the box, you just have to clone the repo: https://github.com/daniel-aguilar-garcia/irisapitester

Run the docker-compose file:

Open this url in your browser: 

http://localhost:52773/csp/user/inde

It is with great pleasure that the CIUSSS de l'Estrie - CHUS is sharing the mocking framework it developed and presented at the InterSystems Summit 2017.  I will update this post with more detailed instructions in the next few weeks but I wanted to share the code and presentation quickly : 

https://gitlab.com/ciussse-drit-srd-public/Mocking-Framework

I hope you'll find this useful for your unit testing. We are using this extensively for the last 2 years and it really works well! The repo is public, feel free to submit enhancements!

Do not forget to enable the %UnitTest in your SMP.

Hello Community!

I'm going to try to explain how to create test for Postman collections for use it with my app IRIS Api Tester.

Yet, What is Newman?:

Newman is a command-line tool that allows you to run Postman collections in an automated and scalable way. By creating tests in Newman, you can ensure the reliability and correctness of your API endpoints. In this article, we will explore how to create tests for Newman in Postman, along with practical examples to help you get started.

Hi All,
I was creating a unit test directory with the below script. But it not creating any directory as mentioned in code. I am working on MacBook with irisusr User as standard installation process.

if '$data(^UnitTestRoot) {

set mainFolder = "UnitTest\NewDir\"

set st = ##class(%File).CreateDirectoryChain(mainFolder _ testSuite)

if $$$ISOK(st) { set ^UnitTestRoot = mainFolder }

else {

write !, "UnitTestRoot folder could not be created. Consult with instructor."

do $system.Status.DisplayError(st)

}

}

Getting INVALID OREF error while unit testing. Also ResultDyanmicObj.Headers.%Size(),DummyResponse.Headers.%Size() these are working fine getting 7 value from both. but still it is not working.

do $$$AssertEquals(ResultDyanmicObj.Headers.%Size(),DummyResponse.Headers.%Size(), "Validation for Headers")

error - INVALID OREF>TestAccountSearchWithoutAccount+6

Hi All,
I want to write testcase in objectscript but stuck at this point where I am getting a DynamicObject from the class method and how can I assert this and check it is okay. 
Also if in any case error It will throw error custom exception class that I created. How to handle assertion for exception in this case also.

Could someone direct to any E2E Test Automation solutions for IRIS Data platform product? either proprietary or open source also works