mleech@bwdlh131.bnr.ca (Marcus Leech) (02/14/91)
We're looking for a package to do regression testing of packages we get from third party prior to releasing them to our user population. We'd like something that can (using a script) simulate a human typing on the keyboard. I'm aware of "expect/tcl"--are they appropriate? Is there anything better? -- Marcus Leech, 4Y11 Bell-Northern Research |opinions expressed mleech@bnr.ca P.O. Box 3511, Stn. C |are my own, and not VE3MDL@VE3JF.ON.CAN.NA Ottawa, ON, CAN K1Y 4H7 |necessarily BNRs
libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) (02/15/91)
In article <1991Feb14.141001.1899@bwdls61.bnr.ca> mleech@bwdlh131.bnr.ca (Marcus Leech) writes: >We're looking for a package to do regression testing of packages we >get from third party prior to releasing them to our user population. >We'd like something that can (using a script) simulate a human typing >on the keyboard. I'm aware of "expect/tcl"--are they appropriate? "Regression Testing and Conformance Testing Interactive Programs" is the name of a paper recently submitted to a journal. Until it is accepted, it can't be given out but here is the abstract: ABSTRACT: Testing interactive programs, by its nature, requires interaction - usually by real people. Such testing is an expensive process and hence rarely done. Some interactive tools can be used non-interactively to a limited extent, and are often tested only this way. Purely interactive programs are rarely tested in any systematic way. This paper describes expect, a tool for general testing of interactive line- and character-oriented programs. expect can also be used to automate standards conformance testing of the many interactive programs in, say, POSIX 1003.2. This, and other software engineering applications of expect are described in this paper.