Testing

Environmental Differences between Animation Testing and Deployment Testing

There are significant environmental differences between Animation testing in Composer and Deployment testing. Both types of testing are needed to adequately verify the components and services you build. The differences are detailed in the table below.

Issue	Testing in Composer	Deployment Testing
Images in HTML pages	Rendered in Native Environment Pane.	No rendering.
Error handling	Error messages appear in Native Environment Pane.	HTTP status codes can be captured via Log Actions.
Project Variables for:* Log File Paths* DTD URIs* XSL URIs* Send Mail Server* XML Inter-change URIs	Usually point to locations on local machine (but could be on Servers or Web).	Should point to locations on production Servers and Web.
Testing Tools	In addition to Log actions, you can use dialog boxes, via ECMAScript alert() function, to display runtime values.	No dialog boxes can be used.