ILOG JRules Rule Scenario Manager is a framework for implementing powerful rule set testing and business simulation capabilities. It provides an integrated environment to verify the correctness of rules and simulate changes in business policy. Designed for customization, it can be tailored to enterprise data stores, deployment processes and reporting requirements.

Business users and developers can create and manage tests that invoke the rule engine and manage reference data used for testing and simulation. They can define and run scenarios such as executing a given rule set with given data, comparing results with given expected results and calculating key performance indicators (KPIs).

Developers can run batch simulation scenarios and compare a baseline scenario with a challenger scenario, varying either the data processed by rules, or the rules themselves. Developers can configure the test framework and run tests from JUnit.

Key features and benefits:

• Unit and regression testing—Ensure a rule or set of rules executes as expected.
• Functional testing—Execute a set of rules with data and check the results.
• Impact Analysis—Measure or verify the business performance of a rule set against a data set. Make the results available to external tools.