how to test reports in businessobjects?

Answer Posted / mallik

The method specified above is a good technique.

The procedure below may add adequate value to the testing
the method descibed above.

First idetify the source tables based on the design
specifcation for the report, then verify that the right
tables/schema are selected as source(s) of the report, then
comes the condition(business rules transformation rules
etc) check using join conditions. If tester is able to
write a complex query himself (in many cases it may not be
fasibel to have person with that level of sql expertise)
and then verify for discrepancies. next comes the query
efficiency (optimisation) etc and finally the formatting
verification

The first step serves as analysis/design verification step
to detect in detecting analysis and design defects early
and helps in avoiding unnecessary test execution effort.

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