IBM WebSphere ILOG Decision Validation Services provides powerful rule testing, simulation and audit capabilities for the WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS product line. Business users are able to verify the correctness of rules and simulate the business impact of rule changes directly within the IBM WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server environment. Designed for customization, it can be easily tailored to meet the validation and reporting requirements of your organization.

Business users can run rules against reference data used for testing and simulation, receiving results at multiple levels of detail and comparing results against key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Developers can run tests in the JRules Rule Studio development environment, integrating with standard testing frameworks and tools such as JUnit and Apache Ant. Developers also have access to customization project editors and wizards in Rule Studio, enabling fast, easy set-up of test scenarios which are then made available to business users in Rule Team Server.

Key features and benefits:

• Implement changes faster while reducing risk of errors due to change with comprehensive rule testing capabilities.
• Ensure rule changes meet business objectives by running simulations against either historical or test data, assessing the results against key performance indicators (KPIs) and what-if scenarios.
• Input data from either Microsoft Office Excel or enterprise data sources.
• Easily modify test cases and expected outputs, and send results to Excel or HTML.
• Query and report on the results of production rule execution using the Decision Warehouse component.