topic Re: QlikView Testing tools in QlikView

QlikView Testing tools

rajeshvaswani77 — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:40:43 GMT

Hi Community Folks,

Could you please suggest on any tools that can be used to:

Automate QlikView dashboard testing

Access code coverage of the dashboard tests

Access the coding standards being followed or not

Thanks,

Rajesh Vaswani

Re: QlikView Testing tools

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:19:33 GMT

There is no Testing tools offered by Qlik. But you can use JMeter to perform the stress test on the Dashboards.

For code testing, you can write documents on standard on the scripting , data model and UI design and use this documents on the code review session.

Re: QlikView Testing tools

sathishkumar_go — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:25:06 GMT

There is no testing tools. But while developing a qlikview application usually I have to follow this

1) Avoid synthetic keys and circular loop

2) use start schema data modelling

3) remove unused fields

4) use aggregated data instead of granular level data (It depends on client requirement)

5) avoid if condition

6) unwanted shared object remove in the server

7) use auto number function for creating the complex keys & keys

😎 use incremental load to reduce the refresh time

-Sathish

Re: QlikView Testing tools

petter — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:35:26 GMT

Qlik does have something that can be used as a testing tool - which you can find here:

QV Scalability Tools (QV10,QV11,QV12)

Don't let the name or title confuse you - it is much more than a scalability tool.

Amongst other things there is regression testing options in this tool. An entire section

of the documentation covers just that aspect.

Furthermore third parties also cover testing:

Rob Wunderlich, the main contributor of Document Analyzer has been instrumental in creating and maintaining this open source project on GitHub:

Document Analyzer V2 -- a major update

And a commercial third-party tool from In4BI called Platform Manager covers testing and more.

Re: QlikView Testing tools

rajeshvaswani77 — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 05:00:30 GMT

Hi Petter,

This is an interesting reply.

Could you please shed light on the test part of the Platform Manager, if you have used and your experience.

Thanks,

Rajesh Vaswani

Re: QlikView Testing tools

petter — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 07:53:20 GMT

You should contact In4BI directly, they will give you the information you need. What I gave you was just a tip. I have only seen a brief demo of the product, talked to their representative at a conference and read their marketing material. It seemed like a sound product to me.

Google "In4BI Product Manager" and find their contact info. I am sure they will be happy to help you and give you good references too.

Re: QlikView Testing tools

rajeshvaswani77 — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:38:21 GMT

Hi All,

Are there any other ways of automating the testing part in QlikView.

Thanks,

Rajesh Vaswani

Re: QlikView Testing tools

petter — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:59:05 GMT

Is it the UI-part you want to test. If so which client? Is it sufficient to test the QlikView Desktop or is it necessary to test the UI in a web-browser?

Re: QlikView Testing tools

rajeshvaswani77 — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 06:35:59 GMT

Hi Petter,

Sufficient to test the QlikView desktop.

Thanks,

Rajesh Vaswani

Re: QlikView Testing tools

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 06:37:25 GMT

Hi Petter / Rajesh,

Thank you for the info,

Is it the UI-part you want to test. If so which client? Is it sufficient to test the QlikView Desktop or is it necessary to test the UI in a web-browser?

So can you shed some light on you inputs on any other tool ?

Petter,

As i can see there QV Scalability Tools (QV10,QV11,QV12) link you have shared seems good but i am unable to get actual picture on how this works. like i can see they are talking about JMeter and other stuff which is required ? for me to do the regression test ?

So can you please guide me on this ?

Thank You.

Santosh Kumar.

Re: QlikView Testing tools

Peter_Cammaert — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:08:20 GMT

Did you check the documentation?

Re: QlikView Testing tools

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:12:08 GMT

yes petter,

First i opened the documentation on Regression Testing.pdf, so as it is my first time it lead me to QV Scalability Tools User Manual.pdf and from there it lead me to Prerequisites.pdf.

I am still going through the documentation, but for creating an environment here takes a lot of approvals which might be like delaying process.

So thought of checking with you while i am still going through the documentation.

I just want to test it on my local desktop and currently not with any server involved.So can you suggest ?

Re: QlikView Testing tools

Peter_Cammaert — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:47:02 GMT

Automated testing almost always requires a structured environment (like a Framework). That may be why the Scalability Tools may seem complex to set-up at first.

I don't know if setting up an automtated testing environment for a single user on a single desktop is worth the effort. No experience with that one, as I almost always use custom designed documents to do initial testing and validation before pushing new releases to an Acceptance/Testing/QA server platform.

Peter

Re: QlikView Testing tools

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:45:50 GMT

thanks for your suggestion its very useful

Re: QlikView Testing tools

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:48:48 GMT

Sathish my requirement is creation circular loop in chart. how can i do?