11. Completing a Vision Application : Test Applications
 
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Test Applications
After testing your application at various stages of development, you are ready to test the final product.
When you test an application, Vision regenerates the code and forms for the parts of the application that have been modified since the last time you ran it.
When testing your application, you can test:
An entire application from the Applications Catalog window
All or part of an application from the Application Flow Diagram Editor
To test an entire application from the Applications Catalog
1. Position the cursor on the name of the application.
2. Select Go.
Vision updates the code and forms for the frames of the application that you have changed, then runs the application.
To test an application from the Application Flow Diagram Editor
1. Select the current frame where you want to begin testing the application. To run the whole application, make the top frame the current frame.
2. Select Go.
Vision tells you for which parts of the application it is regenerating forms or 4GL code. Vision updates the code and forms as necessary for the frames you select, then runs the application for the current frame and any frames beneath it.
After you are done testing the application, you are returned to the window from which you selected Go.
To regenerate the code and forms for a specific frame but not run the frame, select Compile from the Application Flow Diagram Editor menu instead of Go. Use the Compile operation to verify that you have correctly specified or modified a frame.
The next section discusses the circumstances that cause Vision to regenerate the code and form for a frame.