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Testing Systems in the HE Environment

CA Gen provides an Application Test Facility to test new systems or changes to systems in a TSO testing environment that simulates the target production environment. You can use the Test Facility to test batch applications and online applications, that is IMS, CICS, and TSO applications. To test an application system, generate and install the load modules into the testing environment and execute the test. During the test, you see how your system behaves at runtime.

CA Gen also includes a Debug Trace Facility (DTF) to debug the CA Gen-generated programs at the model input level. With Debug Trace, you can execute and debug CA Gen action diagrams instead of debugging the COBOL code that is generated for them. As your generated application executes, you see the sequence of action block calls and action diagram statements executing, and can step through the execution of the application. You can also display and modify the views, that is, the data stores, and system variables for each action diagram. To use the Debug Trace Facility, select debug support when you generate your application.

You can execute the Debug Trace Facility under CICS to test CICS online transactions and Distributed Process Server (DPS) applications. This facility lets the developer test the application in the target environment.

For all other types of applications (IMS, TSO and batch), testing with the Debug Trace Facility must be done within the Application Test Facility.