IBM® Rational Functional Tester Extension for Siebel Test Automation extends Rational Functional Tester by providing automated functional and regression testing for Siebel 7.7 applications. Combining advanced test development techniques with the simplification and automation of basic test needs, Rational Functional Tester Extension for Siebel Test Automation accelerates the process of system test creation, execution and analysis to ensure the early capture and repair of application errors. It integrates with the Siebel Test Automation (STA) framework.

As of the most recent Forrester Wave Report for Customer Relationship Management applications, Oracle’s Siebel CRM is still quite a way ahead of its competition. This is despite the fact that around 2011-2012, Oracle invested heavily in the Fusion CRM stack, which unfortunately did not stand up well against the competition. In early 2013, Oracle restarted the development on the Siebel application stack and has been consistently delivering enhancements to the application year on year as Innovation Packs.

The key change has been the deployment of the Open UI architecture. This came out with the Siebel Version 8.1.1.9, or patchset 9, on top of Siebel version 8.1.1.

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The open UI architecture dramatically changed the user perception around the Siebel UI, since this effectively made Siebel browser independent, moving away from the previous dependence on Internet Explorer. The earlier dependence was primarily because the Siebel High interactivity client was heavily dependent on Active X controls. Over the last few years as Oracle launched the Innovation Packs (IP 2015 is the current one), this dependency has been done away with. The new Innovation Packs are also adding in a lot of processes along with fixing bugs on the way.

The biggest of the changes is that with IP 2015, Siebel tools, a thick client used for any kind of development, has now becoming Siebel composer, a web-based tool similar to most of the development clients for Cloud CRMs (this is still in a beta version in IP 2015 but is a step in the right direction). This will significantly reduce development and deployment times and will finally allow for zero downtime deployments as is common with most cloud applications. Now the big question which comes to haunt the existing Siebel customers on why they should upgrade and how the upgrade process should be managed. The existing Siebel customers fall into 2 distinct brackets: • Old Siebel customers who deployed Siebel 15-odd years ago with Version 6 (Siebel 2000), upgrading to Siebel 7.X and then Siebel 8.0. (From the Oracle reports it appears that almost all of the Siebel customers moved to Siebel 8.0 since that is the version Oracle started the lifetime support from) • Recent Siebel customers who deployed Siebel 8.1.X.

This article is primarily for the first set of Siebel customers. Why should we upgrade to the new version? • Siebel 8.X only supports the high interactivity framework. This is only officially supported on IE 8.0.

IE 8.0 is no longer supported by Microsoft. While there are ways to make the HI framework work on IE 9 and higher, these are not supported by Oracle. As per recent updates, Microsoft is no longer supporting any IE version and instead only supports their newer Edge browser. • A lot of objects which are standard in the newer version were not available in the older versions.

This led to customizations in terms of new tables, business components, business objects and the relevant UI objects on top of these. The new objects effectively make the custom objects redundant.

• Most of the older versions of Siebel were dependent on scripting for basic things like data validations and these have been carried forward through the previous upgrades. Siebel, over the last few versions, has been reducing the dependence on scripting and increasing the dependence on workflows. These are available out of the box. • Due to the lack of a proper workflow engine in the previous versions, customers had a tendency to use business services for managing the business logic.

The newer version has a lot of this business logic by default. • The data models have been changed dramatically. As an example, the address model has been completely changed.

In versions prior to Siebel 8.0, Siebel had a concept of maintaining business addresses (Account Address) and personal addresses (Contact Address) separately. This was changed completely by having one common address table and maintaining intersection tables and the relevant joins for accounts and contacts. • The Siebel horizontal application (SEA) does not exist anymore. The organizations must migrate to Siebel industry applications (SIA). • The newer versions are 64 bit and not 32 bit and hence support newer hardware and operating systems.