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From: alanw@ashtate (Alan Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Need Automated Testing Tools for Sun workstations
Keywords: test automate quality
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.213537.27234@ashtate>
Date: 12 Dec 90 21:35:37 GMT
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In article <9282@cg-atla.UUCP> bradlee@cg-atla.UUCP (Rob Bradlee) writes:
>
>I'm looking for suggestions of tools that will automate Quality Assurance
>testing of our products....

>....   Any information you can mail me about tools for
>automated testing of our products would be most appreciated.
>
>				Rob Bradlee

I too have a similar problem to solve.  Any Test and/or Quality
Assurance people out there with experience in automated testing?
Developers?

As an aside, I am looking into MDQS (Multiple Device Queueing System),
a US Army research project originally designed for print queues (but
of course readily adaptable to any queueing problem, i.e. the queueing
up of tests for execution).  As I understand it, MDQS is in the
public domain (being paid for by the taxpayers of the USA).  I can
provide a pointer to the source if need be.

My other problem is a corallary to the first:  how do you test
a GUI (Graphical User Interface)?  Modify the X-server to track
screen/mouse events?  Outside keyboard macro package?  Any ideas?

Rob, lets trade information!  Let me know what you find out.

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