jim@felix.UUCP (Jim Gilbert) (12/24/86)
I would appreciate references to any public domain or commercial packages designed to facilitate the construction, operation, and maintenance of script-driven regression testing suites for large-scale software subsystems. We desire to systematically exercise complex collections of transaction processing, data base management, and records management software. We would like tools to enable us to construct suites of tests which were capable of running in unattended batch mode, and which produced reports of the differences observed between expected results and the results noted. Reports may be produced on the fly or by journaling responses and comparing them to expected responses later. The languages used to define test actions and expected responses should be appropriate and much more productive to use than typical high-level procedural languages, such as Pascal, FORTRAN, or C. In our particular application we will be exercising complexes of hardware and software configured in a LAN configuration. Out first specific application area is building regression tests for our ISO level 7 Application Services protocols. I would also appreciate any pointers to published research on this general topic. Thank you kindly. Jim Gilbert Senior Consulting Engineer FileNet Corporation 3530 Hyland Ave. Costa Mesa, CA 92626 (714) 966-2344 ...hplabs!felix!jim