Testing and simulation in Decision Center

You can improve the performance of a business application by validating its rules before deployment. Decision Center offers you two ways to check rule behavior:

• Testing: You run a set of rules on scenarios that are defined by you to compare the actual results with your expected results. During rule development, you can create and run test suites in change activities or ungoverned branches in a decision service. You can also run test suites in validation activities to test the content of a release before deployment. For more information, see Testing sets of rules in the Business console.
• Simulation: You run a simulation on a decision service in a change or validation activity in a release, or an ungoverned branch. You apply key performance indicators (KPIs) in analyzing the rules. You run rules on real or fictitious operational data, and use the results to assess and refine the behavior of the rules. For more information, see Simulating business application results.

You do rule testing and simulation in the Decision Center Business console. You create scenario files in Excel, and for simulations, you define KPIs, report formats, and simulation configurations.