Testing the executable application
Once you create the executable version of your application, test
how it runs before proceeding with delivery. You may have already
executed the application many times within the PowerBuilder development
environment, but it is still very important to run the executable
version as an independent application — just the way end users
will.
To do this, you:
-
Leave PowerBuilder and go to your operating system
environment. -
Make sure that the PowerBuilder runtime libraries are
accessible to the application.You can do this by verifying that the location of the
PowerBuilder virtual machine and other runtime files is in your PATH
environment variable, or you can create a registry entry for the
application that specifies the path. -
Run the application’s executable file as you run any native
application.
Tracing the application’s
execution
To help you track down problems, PowerBuilder provides tracing and
profiling facilities that you can use in the development environment and
when running the executable version of an application. Even if your
application’s executable is problem free, you might consider using this
facility to generate an audit trail of its operation. For more
information on tracing execution, see the PowerBuilder Users
Guide.