Applications for Improving Appian Delivery

• These tools are useful for building system level diagrams of your Appian solution. Note: Use Appian to diagram process flows.

• Tool for creating and opening archive files (e.g., zips, jars, etc).

• Tool for creating PDF documents.

• Text editor for editing text documents and viewing logs.

• Tool for merging changes between two versions of a file.
• WinMerge is free and great for basic diff functionality.
• Beyond Compare and Araxis Merge require payment but provide more advanced features.

• Screen sharing tool for recording demonstrations.
• ShareX is also useful for capturing and reproducing defects for Appian product support.

• Useful online tool that can be used for effective story mapping

• This is a useful tool for debugging errors in processing XML documents (i.e. torecord() or toxml()).
• This tool also helps eliminate the document as the source of an integration incompatibility by testing the validity of the XML response.

• This is an LDAP client which is useful for testing LDAP queries before building your LDAP Synchronization process model.

• Tool for working with Oracle databases.

• Tool for working with SQL Server Databases.

• Tool for working with DB2 Databases.

• Tool for working with MySQL databases.

• Web-Based tool for working with the cloud instance of MySQL.

• Tool for working with postgreSQL Databases

• A web service testing tool. This is useful for confirming that a Web Service is functional before integrating with Appian and that the provided WSDL is valid.
• Leverage this tool to create mock services in instances where the WSDL/RAML is available but the corresponding Web Service is not implemented.
• SoapUI is also useful for running both performance and functional tests on Web APIs, custom servlet plugins and process models published as a web service.

• A web service testing tool to test integrations

• Useful for inspecting JWT Tokens.

• SSH Client for testing connections to external systems or to remotely connect to your Appian instance.
• PuTTY also includes an SFTP client which is useful for testing SFTP connections.

• Tool for file transfer. This is useful for uploading plugins to Appian Application Servers.
• Additionally this is helpful for testing file based integrations.

• The library contains methods which allow you to interact with Appian components in a browser. It can be used in a Java application or integrated directly into any Selenium or Java-based testing tool.
• Best practices for automated testing

• This family of tools which allows developers to see the structure of the page and network traffic.
• This is useful for troubleshooting SSO, embedded interfaces, and debugging SAIL errors.

• Open source tool for performance testing.

• Tool on the App Market to help test applications with production like data volumes.
• Tips for using the database load generation tool

• Use a local Appian install for plug-in development.

Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers or 

IntelliJ

• This is for writing Appian plug-in code.

• Version control tool for plug-in source code. Note: Use the Deployment Automation Manager to version Appian application packages.

• Source code editor for writing Appian component plug-ins

• Illustrations you can change based on needed colors.

• Generates random user images

• Check if the contrast of two colors is readable or not

• Useful to help generate a color palette

• Useful to create wireframes and mockups for Appian Application