Effective testing of integration solutions starts right at the beginning of integration projects. The OpenSphere testing framework lets you develop tests in parallel to the software engineering process and maintain them during the whole product lifecycle. Reusability in software development is quite a common requirement; this software applies it on test modules as well. 

Supporting a proven testing methodology, OpenSphere lets you build sets of regression tests adjusted to your project specific requirements. Once the tests are built, they can be run at any time yielding immediate and detailed reports of the test results. The  OpenSphere automated testing framework does not only reuse proven components, it also provides comprehensive support in multiple domains.

• Project specific test configuration and structuring
• Test suites
• Graphical test case editor
• Graphical comparison rule editor
• Message reporting, publishing and comparing for WebService, JMS and Tibco Rendezvous
• Comparing of XML structures applying user configured comparison rules
• Comparing of data retrieved from databases
• Automatic reporting (publishing) of testing results
• Running tests in batch mode through Apache Ant

OpenSphere enables you to build tests that generate such detailed reports that you will be able to quickly find most errors. The application contains a test engine driven by user defined test suites that contain a number of test cases with a graphical configurable test flow each. During the execution of entire test suites or single test cases, processing and status information are shown directly in the test flow graph but also within a summary table. 

Comparison rules can be defined for entire messages through simple mouse clicks; this also includes nested XML structures. In case of special needs, experts get full control over generated XPath expressions and can extend the powerful comparison rules generated by default. 

Testing results are reported in an easy readable form on the test result panel within OpenSphere. Optionally you may want to use the comparison dialog that lets you interact with the comparison process and fine tune the rules during the test execution. The testing results can easily be exported to HTML format and made available to other people over the web.