How to do record validation for requests submitted through ATF?

[Moe Murphy]

I'm trying to work with ATF to automate catalog testing tasks, and I'm wondering how I would go about validating record information based on requests generated through ATF.

Basically, I'm adding a handful of catalog items to my cart and checking out using ATF to create a catalog request, and I want to validate that catalog request record that is created, and get information such as the RITM number, the requested for, contact for, etc. 

I know there is an option in ATF to validate records, but I can't see any way to have it validate records created DURING ATF, and can only see how to validate already existing records.

Is this possible OOB, or is this something I would have to script?

[Brian Bouchard · Accepted solution]

There's nothing that indicates a record was created with ATF. It's meant to look just like any user coming in and doing a manual process.

To validate the records of what's created, you need to open the form for the table and use a filter to get to the specific record you're looking for.  For instance, if you want to validate the RITM, you would open the RITM where the request = the request generated by the Order Catalog Item step in your ATF.  If there are CAT Items under that, you would do something similar to get the catalog tasks for that RITM.


Your steps would look something like this:

and your steps would look similar to this:

To access the Request that was created as part of Step 3, you need to click the  icon and select the appropriate step and reference item.