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This enhancement was delivered in IBM Developer for z Systems 14.1.5.
More and more enterprises are adopting the ‘Mobile first' strategy while offering customers online access to their services via Mobile apps. In order to react quickly to customers needs, changed market circumstances,… they are also searching for solutions that enable more frequent (continuous) deployments (becoming DevOps). One of the key elements here is the ability to automate testing (unit testing is part of it) in order to save on time and to guarantee on quality while deploying.
The services that are of the most value for the enterprise are these online, real-time, CICS services that are exposed to the Mobile channels. It would be of a great help if zUnit could be used too for CICS transactions and not only for callable Batch services.
To illustrate with some figures (company in financial sector): if zUnit is only usable for unit testing of batch services then only 20-30% of the application portfolio can be tested, which means that it is very difficult to defend a strategy in using zUnit for unit testing.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - Developer for System z
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Rational
Product family - Design & development
Product - Developer for System z
Thank you for taking the time to suggest an enhancement to our product. Many of our product enhancements result from feedback from our customers, so your input is always very important to us. Your request is currently inline with our product strategy and we have planned it for a future release of the product. Thank you for your suggestion and continued support.
A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.