Unit Tests in Pega Robot Studio

Unit testing is a technique used in software testing to evaluate small, individual units of the source code. The purpose of unit testing is to ensure that the code meets the design requirements by simulating scenarios with specific data sets. This testing method plays a crucial role in the project by contributing to code quality assurance, safeguarding legacy functionality from unintended breakage by new code, and serving as current software documentation. 

Unit tests are designed for the smallest application flow that you can isolate from a complex project. In Pega Robot Studio, these testable parts can be identified by determining the Entry and Exit Points for each automation, along with their associated input/output parameters.  

For example, if the development team is automating the application for an online shop, one of the first tasks is to automate the process of creating an account based on an email address. This automation contains three different possible flows, as shown in the following figure: 

Each automation flow can be reached using various values of the input parameter. A test case is a set of the input parameter values associated with the output parameter values specific for a particular case. The following figure shows the possible test cases created in Pega Robot Studio, that cover all scenarios for this automation: 

 

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