Rule DataSnap

Data Snapshot configuration sample
Data Snapshot sample

Inspiration

If you have some data in your application, how often do you need some kind of reporting on them, including search, filtering or just plain listing?

Reports in Pega are widely used to work with data so typically there is a significant reports maintenance required.

How can you ensure that reports stay correct when changed?

That's right, Pega unit testing can help with this!

However, Reports are bound to the database and thus reports testing is not so easy since appropriate data is needed.

What it does

DataSnap component introduces new Rule type - a Data Snapshot which becomes available in a Data Model category.

Data Snapshot rules allow to define and maintain test data for a target Class, allowing to deliever these data and to use it with a Pega Unit to unit test Report Definitions and functionality built on top of them.

The component is easy to install and use - just add the component to your Testing application and you would be able to create and use Data Snapshots for application classes.

How we built it

New rule type was created, it allows to create and maintain test data for a target Class in a familiar way like you do it with any other rule.

Data Snapshot allows to define properties that need to be populated and to specify test data for them. It means that a particular Class can have a number of Data Snapshots covering various test scenarios.