BizTalk™ Unleashed

Testing the Map

After you create a map, or after you modify an existing map, you will want to unit-test it before incorporating the new or changed map into your BizTalk Server processes. The Mapper will first compile the map into an executable form and can detect a number of mapping errors at that stage. Then you can test the execution of the map with automatically generated field values, with field values you define, or with an actual instance of the source document. There are also a number of option settings for the Mapper that affect the process of map testing.

Compiling the Map

The first step in testing your completed map is to compile the specifications, links, and functoids into an XSLT script that actually performs the work specified by ...