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Preparing to use Forms2test
Requirements
Forms2test requires your computing environment meets some minimum requirements.
Forms2test is a 100% Java application and requires a fully compliant JVM 1.5 or higher.
The JRE is free to download from the site of Sun Microsystems: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads
Forms2test has been tested and should run correctly under Windows (NT, 2000, XP and Vista).
Note: Due to a bug the installation folder for Java 5 update 11 cannot always be determined by the installer automatically.
See "1.5.0_11 installer writes wrong JavaHome value in Windows registry" http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6520670
Tip: The ephemeral port range for windows machines is limited to 5000. For performance testing this range is often too restrictive and can result in the error: "address already in use" during running a test scenario. You should read the following article from Microsoft carefully: Q196271. You are strongly advised to increase the TCP/IP registry MaxUserPort setting as described in the article and to set the registry setting TCPTimedWaitDelay to 60 seconds. Do not forget to restart Windows for the changes to take effect!
Installation
Installing Forms2test is a snap. Forms2test is available as a Windows installer. Launch the installer and install the full functional version into the directory where you want Forms2test to be installed. Please note that installing Forms2test will overwrite your existing installation. However, settings and registrations won't be lost.
Running Forms2test
After the installation has completed the installer has created start menu items to launch (or uninstall) Forms2test.
Note: If the start-up fails, ensure that the JAVA_HOME variable points to the location where you have installed Java 5. This variable is set in the setenv.bat shell script.
Configuring Forms2test
If Forms2test is started for the first time you are automatically directed to the configuration tab (1).The only mandatory configuration for Forms2test is the URL of the Oracle Forms application (2).
If you are testing from behind a firewall/proxy server, you may need to provide Forms2test with the firewall/proxy server hostname and port number.
