taylord@Software.Mitel.COM (Don Taylor) (02/09/91)
I would be very interested to hear of any generally available test harnesses. (There is probably a better name for it than test harness). What I have in mind is a system that can be used to write automated regression tests, perform a test run and compare the results of the run with previous runs, pointing out any differences. I should like to be able to use such a beast at both the user interface level, and at the function/procedure call level. At the user interface level, it would be nice if the system could capture a live session and turn that into a test script for later use. Of course, I want to be able capture sessions on modern GUI interfaces including X and MS-Windows. I vaguely remember a discussion of a tool like this for X, but I did not take any notice at the time. DEC have a thing called VAX DEC/Test Manager which seems to do just what I want. Unfortunately, it only runs on VMS and I am only interested in Unix and MS-DOS systems. Thx. Don. -- Don Taylor (613)-592-2122 x 3007 mitel!taylord@uunet.uu.net Mitel Corp. ...!uunet!mitel!taylord 350 Legget Drive, Kanata Ontario, Canada, K2K 1X3
pcg@spl27.spl.fac.com (Paul C George) (02/20/91)
Try the SRI toolset, I think it covers all you have asked for. It instruments code for path analysis, records and replays tests, generates coverage reports, and helps generate data sets. Test is not my area, so I only have superficial knowledge from a demo. It runs under X11r3 or later. The products are: T-Scope - A test data observation & Analysis system CAPBAK/X - Keystroke/Mouse capture & playback system TCAT & TCAT-Path - path analysis & code instrumentation, available for Ada & C. TDGEN - tast case generator? SMARTS - don't know capabilities EXDIFF - compares test results Software Reasearch Inc, 625 3rd St. San Francisco Ca 94107-1997 (415)957-1411, (800)942-7638