PeopleSoft PeopleTools I Ed 1 — Lesson 4: Testing, Debugging, Migration, Change Assistant Awareness, and Support

Learning Objectives

• Explain the architecture, workflow, or business purpose behind unit, component, negative, security, and regression tests.
• Apply PeopleCode debugger, SQL trace, logs, messages, and defect isolation and project compare, copy, upgrade flags, migration sequence, and rollback in a controlled scenario.
• Validate outcomes and troubleshoot risks involving documentation, code review, deployment checks, monitoring, and support handoff.

Detailed Topics

• unit, component, negative, security, and regression tests
• PeopleCode debugger, SQL trace, logs, messages, and defect isolation
• project compare, copy, upgrade flags, migration sequence, and rollback
• documentation, code review, deployment checks, monitoring, and support handoff

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate unit, component, negative, security, and regression tests within a small employee-service component developed from metadata design through secured migration and support handoff, then capture the exact configuration, command, transaction, report, model, query, code, or process evidence that proves the result for lesson 4.

Hands-On Exercise

Implement a controlled exercise covering PeopleCode debugger, SQL trace, logs, messages, and defect isolation and project compare, copy, upgrade flags, migration sequence, and rollback, then introduce and resolve an exception involving documentation, code review, deployment checks, monitoring, and support handoff while preserving before-and-after evidence.

1. Confirm the environment, identities, inputs, dependencies, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Complete the course-specific configuration, development, analysis, or process workflow.
3. Capture settings, commands, data, outputs, logs, reports, screenshots, calculations, or test results.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and document corrective action.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the technical or business decision that must be made.
• Compare valid approaches and their security, performance, reliability, cost, compliance, and support trade-offs.
• Define rollback, recovery, ownership, communication, and evidence requirements.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose issues across unit, component, negative, security, and regression tests, PeopleCode debugger, SQL trace, logs, messages, and defect isolation, project compare, copy, upgrade flags, migration sequence, and rollback, documentation, code review, deployment checks, monitoring, and support handoff without making an unverified production change. Separate symptoms from causes, gather evidence, test the smallest reversible correction, rerun validation, and record preventive action.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, dependencies, and expected result are documented.
• The result is reproducible and supported by course-specific evidence.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, performance, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• Exceptions, rollback, ownership, and the next improvement priority are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Testing, Debugging, Migration, Change Assistant Awareness, and Support in a realistic PeopleSoft PeopleTools I Ed 1 scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.