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From: taylord@Software.Mitel.COM (Don Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Test Harnesses
Message-ID: <6434@taylord>
Date: 9 Feb 91 02:25:53 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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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.



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